Dr Jay Michael Kashkin is a former Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, NY. He was involved in early research in HIV looking at fetal target organs of the virus Currently, he is a national lecturer and researcher in the field of hereditary angioedema (HAE), a rare genetic disorder causing unpredictable swelling anywhere in the body. Dr. Kashkin has co-authored numerous articles on the topic of HAE and presented at national meetings.