AFRICAN AMERICAN WELLNESS PROJECT || Michael LeNoir, MD

🎙 In this episode, our host, Micheal Pope, will be joined by Michael LeNoir, MD, an allergist in the East Bay Area, board-certified in both a Fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Lenoir served as the chair of the National Medical Association's Allergy and Asthma Section and was the first Floyd Malveaux Award recipient by that section. He has practiced allergy full time in San Francisco and Oakland since 1977.

For 20 years, he was the Director of Allergy Services at San Francisco General Hospital. He has a particular interest in asthma in the African American and high-risk communities and genetic polymorphisms. Dr. LeNoir served as the Chair of the Underserved Committee of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. He is the About Health program's host and executive producer, a one-hour talk show on Pacifica Radio, KPFA, and produced the video "Clinical Trials in the African American Community," which won top honors was a finalist in the Community Service Video category, International Health and Video Awards in 2006.

At present, Dr. Lenoir is the President of the Ethnic Health Institute at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Chair of the African American Wellness Project, and an Associate Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the University of California. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Children's Hospital Oakland. In 2006 he was awarded the Community Physician of the Year Award by the Residents at the Oakland Children's Hospital and Research Institute, the Community Service Award from the Ethnic Health Institute, the Lydia Smiley Award from the California School Nurses Association. Also, Dr. Lenoir has served as the principal investigator on the NMAs Clinical Trials Grant, Project Impact, The Immunization Grant, and presently its two current asthma grants.