Matthew Jason Greenhawt MD, MBA

Dr. Greenhawt is Board-certified in pediatrics and allergy and immunology. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the U-M and is the research director for the University of Michigan Food Allergy Center. Dr. Greenhawt is also the co-director of the University of Michigan Combined Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis Clinic. He holds a combined MD and MBA degree from Tufts University, completed a fellowship in allergy and immunology at the U-M in 2008, and received an MSc Health and Healthcare Policy at the U-M Rackham School of Graduate Studies in 2012.

Dr. Greenhawt is a health services researcher, with an eye towards using his work to influence food allergy-related health-care policy. His specific research interests include the parental understanding of food allergy risk, utilization of food allergy-related health services, emerging food allergy therapeutics, adherence to practice guidelines, optimal strategies for diagnosis and treatment of Eosinophilic Esophagitis, and Quality of Life among families with food allergy and Eosinophilic Esophagitis.

He is a national expert on the safety of the Influenza vaccine in egg-allergic recipients, and on in-flight allergic reactions to peanuts. He has over 30 peer-reviewed publications on a broad variety of topics, including peanut and tree nut reactions on commercial airlines, the safety of influenza vaccine in egg-allergic children (including 3 national practice parameters on this subject), use of oral food challenges, the management of eosinophilic esophagitis, and food allergy policy-related issues.

He serves as a member of several national committees for both the AAAAI and ACAAI and has served as an advisor on behalf of these organizations to the CDC-ACIP pertaining to his work with an influenza vaccine. He is also an associate editor for the Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. He has received research funding from the NIH, the ACAAI, and private foundations.