Luke Pittman M.D.

Education

2021 Allergy & Immunology Fellowship, National Capital Consortium
2019 Internal Medicine Residency, Madigan Army Medical Center
2016 MD, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA
2012 BS, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

Biography

Dr. Pittman began his military career with a commission from West Point in 2012. He received his medical degree upon graduation from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine in 2016. He completed his internal medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA in 2019 and went on to complete his fellowship in allergy & immunology at the National Capital Consortium in Bethesda, MD in 2019. He is board certified in Internal Medicine as well as Allergy & Immunology. He currently serves as the Program Director of the National Capital Consortium's Allergy & Immunology Fellowship Program headquartered at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. Additionally, he serves as Deputy Consultant to the U.S. Surgeon General for Army Allergy & Immunology (60M) and is an Ambassador to the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. He is the current consultant allergist and immunologist to the White House Medical Unit. Beyond his aforementioned duties, Dr. Pittman is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at USUHS. He serves as the Principal Investigator for multiple ongoing research protocols and is the primary author or co-author of multiple peer-reviewed articles. Nationally, he is a member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI) and the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI).

Representative Bibliography

McMurray JC, Pacheco CS, Schornack BJ, Sun X, Brunader JA, Scott AE, Ariza JS, Kou CJ, Costantino RC, Pittman LM, Adams KE, Waters AM, Pryor EM, Lyons JJ, Metcalfe D, Maric I, Boggs NA. Standardized indolent systemic mastocytosis evaluations across a healthcare system: implications for screening accuracy. Blood. 2024 Apr 18:blood.2023023347. doi: 10.1182/blood.2023023347. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38635793.

Day WG, Horn C, Hogue JS, Magee J, Shayegan S, Pittman L. Novel Pathogenic C5 Gene Variants in a Patient with Neisseria Meningitis and Diffuse Cutaneous HSV-1 Infection. J Clin Immunol. 2024 Jan 17;44(2):52. doi: 10.1007/s10875-024-01651-7. PMID: 38231272.

Pepper E, Pittman L. Treatment of idiopathic anaphylaxis with dupilumab: a case report. Allergy Asthma Clin Immunol. 2023 Sep 9;19(1):82. doi: 10.1186/s13223-023-00838-8. PMID: 37689672; PMCID: PMC10492327.

Song TT, Pittman LM. Pharmacokinetics between intramuscular and subcutaneous manual epinephrine administration. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2023 Sep;131(3):398-399. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2023.05.008. PMID: 37661172.

Pittman, L.M., Song, T.T. Do No Harm: Risk vs. Benefit of the Approach to Childhood Food Allergy. Curr Treat Options Allergy 9, 363–374 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40521-022-00322-5

Wang Q, Pittman L, Healey A, Chang J, Song TT. Ideal body position for epinephrine autoinjector administration. Allergy Asthma Proc. 2021 Mar 21;42(2):147-152. doi: 10.2500/aap.2021.42.200108. PMID: 33685560; PMCID: PMC8133011.

Magee JS, Pittman LM, Jette-Kelly LA. Paradoxical Bronchoconstriction with Short-Acting Beta Agonist. Am J Case Rep. 2018 Oct 9;19:1204-1207. doi: 10.12659/AJCR.910888. PMID: 30297688; PMCID: PMC6192384.