Benjamin Davis, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Immunology
Introduction
Ben Davis is a Clinical Associate Professor in Allergy/Immunology. He did his fellowship training at University of Cincinnati/Cincinnati Children’s. His general main interests are eosinophilic and mast cell diseases. His more specific focus is food allergy and eosinophilic esophagitis. He has an extensive publication history on eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). He sees value in further understanding these disorders and providing a more comprehensive approach for his patients. He current projects include formation of a multidisciplinary EoE clinic with pediatric Gastroenterology, formation of a multidisciplinary asthma clinic with adult pulmonology and development of allergy/immunology clinical trials group.
Current Positions
- Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Immunology
- Interim Director, Division of Immunology
Education
- MD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
- PhD, Immunology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Fellow, Allergy/Immunology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's, Cincinatti, Ohio
Licenses & Certifications
- Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine
- Certification, American Board of Allergy and ImmunologyI
- Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine
Selected Publications
- Davis, B. P. (2018). Pathophysiology of Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology. PMID: 29332138.
- Bird, J. A., Spergel, J. M., Jones, S. M., Rachid, R., Assa'ad, A. H., Wang, J., Leonard, S. A., Laubach, S. S., Kim, E. H., Vickery, B. P., Davis, B. P., Heimall, J., Cianferoni, A., MacGinnitie, A. J., Crestani, E. & Burks, A. W. (2017). Efficacy and Safety of AR101 in Oral Immunotherapy for Peanut Allergy: Results of ARC001, a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Clinical Trial. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice. PMID: 29092786.
- Davis, B. P. & Ballas, Z. K. (2017). Biologic response modifiers: Indications, implications, and insights. J Allergy Clin Immunol 139 (5) 1445-1456. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.02.013.
- Rochman, M., Travers, J., Miracle, C. E., Bedard, M. C., Wen, T., Azouz, N. P., Caldwell, J. M., Kc, K., Sherrill, J. D., Davis, B. P., Rymer, J. K., Kaufman, K. M., Aronow, B. J. & Rothenberg, M. E. (2017). Profound loss of esophageal tissue differentiation in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.11.042.
- Davis, B. P., Stucke, E. M., Khorki, M. E., Litosh, V. A., Rymer, J. K., Rochman, M., Travers, J., Kottyan, L. C. & Rothenberg, M. E. (2016). Eosinophilic esophagitis-linked calpain 14 is an IL-13-induced protease that mediates esophageal epithelial barrier impairment. JCI Insight 1 (4) e86355. DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.86355.
- Davis, B. P., Epstein, T., Kottyan, L., Amin, P., Martin, L. J., Maddox, A., Collins, M. H., Sherrill, J. D., Abonia, J. P. & Rothenberg, M. E. (2016). Association of eosinophilic esophagitis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. J Allergy Clin Immunol 137 (3) 934-6.e5. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2015.08.026.
- Davis, B. P. & Rothenberg, M. E. (2016). Mechanisms of Disease of Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Annu Rev Pathol 11 365-93. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-pathol-012615-044241.
- Davis, B. P. & Rothenberg, M. E. (2014). Inflammatory Effector Cells/Cell Migration. In Pediatric Allergy: Princlples and Practice. (3rd) New York: Elsevier.
- Kottyan, L. C., Davis, B. P., Sherrill, J. D., Liu, K., Rochman, M., Kaufman, K., Weirauch, M. T., Vaughn, S., Lazaro, S., Rupert, A. M., Kohram, M., Stucke, E. M., Kemme, K. A., Magnusen, A., He, H., Dexheimer, P., Chehade, M., Wood, R. A., Pesek, R. D., Vickery, B. P., Fleischer, D. M., Lindbad, R., Sampson, H. A., Mukkada, V. A., Putnam, P. E., Abonia, J. P., Martin, L. J., Harley, J. B. & Rothenberg, M. E. (2014). Genome-wide association analysis of eosinophilic esophagitis provides insight into the tissue specificity of this allergic disease. Nat Genet 46 (8) 895-900. DOI: 10.1038/ng.3033.
- Davis, B. P. & Rothenberg, M. E. (2014). Eosinophils and cancer. Cancer Immunol Res 2 (1) 1-8. DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-13-0196.