Oral Alpan, MD, is the Laboratory and Medical director of Amerimmune in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his medical degree in 1990 from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Alpan continued his education with an internship and residency in Pediatrics at Stony Brook University in New York and a fellowship in Allergy/Immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland. Board-certified in Allergy and Immunology, Dr. Alpan is a member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. He is a Principal Investigator on numerous research studies in the field of immunology asthma and allergic disorders, and he has published numerous articles and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals.  His main interests are in immune dysregulation and development of assays to measure such immune responses.