Rate My Professor Heather Lehman

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.