ROBERT E. COIFMAN, M.D. (Curriculum vitae)
is a graduate of the engineering physics program at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
His post-doctoral training was at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Minnesota.
He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Allergy & Immunology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, and the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, and he has served as a national scientific committee chairman and as a member of the national meeting continuing medical education program faculty for each of these two societies.
Dr. Coifman is on the medical staffs of the Inspira Vineland Medical Center, the AtlantiCare Medical Center (Pomona), and the Cape Regional Medical Center (Cape May Court House).
Dr. Coifman has lectured and presented clinical research on allergies and asthma from Maine to California. He is editor of a set of teaching slides on occupational asthma and author of a textbook chapter on asthma in school sports and physical education programs.Since 1983 Dr. Coifman has had the best track record in the peer-reviewed English language medical literature for keeping severe asthmatics out of hospitals and emergency rooms, improving their quality of life, and reducing their cost of care.
He is the only allergist in South Jersey who served as both a national scientific committee chairman and as a national meeting continuing medical education speaker for each of the two national allergy specialty societies: the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology and the American College of Allergy Asthma & Immunology.
Dr. Coifman has developed a number of measures to improve the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of allergen immunotherapy (allergy shots), and he chaired a task force of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology whose mission was to identify and confirm the effectiveness of similar measures developed by allergists in practice across the country.