Rate My Professor Heather Lehman

Heather K. Lehman, MD, FAAAAI, is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, serving as Division Chief of Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology. A Medicine professor specializing in Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology, she earned her MD in Medicine from the University at Buffalo, Cum Laude, in 2003, and her BA in Biological Sciences, Summa Cum Laude, from the same institution in 1999. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at the University at Buffalo Graduate Medical Education Consortium in 2004 and 2006, respectively, followed by a fellowship in Allergy/Immunology in 2008.

Dr. Lehman's career includes key appointments such as Clinical Director of Allergy/Immunology at Oishei Children's Hospital since 2014, Fellowship Program Director for Allergy/Immunology at University at Buffalo since 2012, Site Director for the FARE Clinical Network Clinical Care Center of Distinction since 2020, and Attending Physician in Allergy/Immunology at Oishei Children's Hospital since 2008. Board-certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, she treats children and adolescents with asthma, food allergies, atopic dermatitis, recurrent infections, primary immunodeficiencies, and autoimmune diseases like juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Her research specializations include allergy and immunology, asthma, the impact of depression on childhood asthma, primary immunodeficiencies, and autoimmunity in cystic fibrosis. Notable publications are 'Depression in children with asthma: Testing a cholinergically mediated "endotype"' (2026, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global), 'Management of the child with primary immunodeficiency' (2025, Current Opinion in Pediatrics), 'Autoimmunity in people with cystic fibrosis' (2023, Journal of Cystic Fibrosis), and 'Multi-Year Registry Study of Elapegademase Treatment in Patients with Adenosine Deaminase Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID)' (2025, Journal of Clinical Immunology). She has received repeated Top Doctors in Western New York awards (2015-2026), the Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Award (2015), Buswell Mentored Research Fellowship (2008-2011), and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Dr. Lehman contributes to education through resident electives, medical student rotations, and preclinical immunology courses.