Andrea A. Pappalardo, MD
Associate Professor
Pulmonary, Allergy & Sleep, Department of Pediatrics
Department of Medicine
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About
Andrea A. Pappalardo, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics with indefinite tenure at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is board certified in three specialties: internal medicine, pediatrics and allergy/immunology and serves as the Allergy Service Director.
Dr. Pappalardo’s research focuses on school and community-engaged implementation science-driven interventions to reduce health disparities in asthma and food allergy. Her work in stock inhaler legislation and programming is appreciated throughout Chicago, across Illinois, and nationally. She recently completed her K12 project to assess school-based asthma management practices in Chicago Public Schools and pilot a stock inhalers program in select Chicago schools with demonstrated high asthma burden. This program was able to quickly upscale with the State of Illinois’ funding and creation of RESCUE-IL, with now all Chicago Public Schools implementing stock inhaler programming Fall 2024.
She started her National Institutes of Health K23 Career Development Award through the National Heart Blood and Lung Institute, where she is improving medication access in areas, such as rural Illinois school districts, where the RESCUE-IL program has not yet reached. Additionally, she along with her colleagues at University of Chicago Medical Center are evaluating the impact of stock inhaler policy implementation of the RESCUE-IL program statewide. She also works on allergist-immunologist and epinephrine access in community settings such as Chicago, and nationally with the Food Allergy Research and Education to improve food allergy prevention and outcomes within historically marginalized communities.
Dr. Pappalardo melds system-level thinking with her analytic skills gained in research and clinical expertise to create innovative solutions to healthcare system problems using community-engaged implementation science methodologies.