M. Michael Glovsky, M.D.
Board Certified
Am. Board of Allergy & Immunology
Am. Board of Diagnostic Lab Immunology
Dr. Michael Glovsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 15, 1936. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tufts University and did his medical training at Tufts Medical School, Boston, Mass, graduating in 1962. He interned in internal medicine at the Baltimore City Hospital (Baltimore, MD) on the Johns Hopkins Service 1962-63. Following the internship, he spent the next 2 years at the National Institutes of Health, National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute fulfilling his military obligation in the Public Health Service (1963-65). From 1965-66 he trained as an internal medicine resident at the New England Medical Center Hospitals, the teaching hospitals of Tufts Medical School. He then completed 3 years and 3 months as an NIH special fellow in Immunology, Allergy and Hematology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the University of California Medical School, San Francisco (July, 1966-September , 1969).
Following the fellowship training, Dr. Glovsky joined the Department of Internal Medicine at the Kaiser Los Angeles Hospital. In 1971 he tranferred to the Allergy-Immunology Department, Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center. In 1972-1984 he served as Chief, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and co-director of the Allergy Residency Program. From 1984-89 he joined the University of Southern California Medical Center as Professor of Medicine in the Lung Division and Director of the Asthma Clinic. In 1989, he moved to Huntington Memorial Hospital where he became Medical Director of the Asthma and Allergy Center (1989-2000).
Dr. Glovsky has been the author or co-author of 68 publications in refereed journals in Asthma, Immunology, and air pollution. In addition, he was board certified in Allergy and Immunology in 1972 and in Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology in 1986. He has served as President of the Los Angeles Society of Allergy and Immunology (1979-1980) and is a member of many local, national, and international societies of allergy, immunology, and lung diseases. He currently is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the USC Medical School and part of the Internal Medicine training program at Huntington Memorial Hospital, as well as, Visiting Associate in Chemistry at CalTech.
reyneiro Castro Jr, M.D.
Board certified
Am. Board of Allergy & Immunology
Am. bOARD OF PEDIATRICS
Dr. Reyneiro Castro Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California in 1971. He graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA in 1993 and received his medical degree from the University of California, Davis in 1998. He did his residency in Pediatrics from 1998-2001 and served as Chief Resident from 2001-02. He received his certification from the American Board of Pediatrics in 2002. He did his fellowship in adult and pediatric Allergy and Immunology at UCLA; completing his training in 2005. While working on his Allergy and Immunology fellowship he participated in an academic fellowship in community asthma at MLK Medical Center and spent a year working with youth in a asthma and reading program at the local Boys and Girls Clubs; he completed this in June 2005.
After completing his training, Dr. Castro joined the Huntington Allergy and Asthma Center in August 2005.
Dr. Castro is a member of the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, the American College of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology and the Joint Council of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology.
Dr. Castro has given lectures in the Pasadena area and was also interviewed on ABC News about spring hay fever. He continues his interest in community asthma by participating in the Pasadena Community Asthma Program at Huntington Memorial Medical Center.