M. Eric Gershwin, MD, MACP, MACR

M. Eric Gershwin, MD, MACP, MACR, is currently the Jack and Donald Chia Professor of Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of California (UC), Davis. Dr. Gershwin was the first scientist to clone the gene that produces the autoantigen involved in the antimitochondrial antibody test for patients with primary biliary cholangitis. He is an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune disease and has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for nearly 50 years. Dr. Gershwin is also a consultant for multiple federal agencies and has worked with the NIH, FTC, FDA, USAID, and USDA. He is a world expert on the role of environment and health, including issues such as mold, allergens, and environmental hazards.

Dr. Gershwin graduated from Stanford Medical School and interned at Tufts-New England Medical Center. He trained in immunology at the NIH and joined the faculty of the University of California, Davis in 1975. Dr. Gershwin founded the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Program at UC Davis in 1977. He has authored more than 900 experimental papers and more than 20 books.