Department of Pediatrics

Faculty of Medicine

Alejandro Palma, MD

Division of Immunology, Assistant Professor

Palma, A (headshot 1)

Email: alejandro.palma@iwk.nshealth.ca
Phone: 902-470-8491
Fax: 902-470-7812
Mailing Address: 
Division of Immunology
IWK Health Centre
PO Box 9700
5850-5980 University Ave.
Halifax, NS B3K 6R8
 
Research Topics:
  • Inborn errors of immunity with focus on primary antibody deficiencies, B cell physiology and immune dysregulation
  • Hereditary Angioedema

Education and certifications

  • Doctor of Medicine (cum Laude) University of Buenos AIres – Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011)
  • Residency - Pediatrics, Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutierrez – Buenos Aires, Argentina (2012-2016).
  • Pediatrician – certified by the University of Buenos Aires and the Argentine Society for Pediatrics (2016).
  • Subspecialty Residency – Pediatric Immunology, Hospital de Pediatria S.A.M.I.C. “Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan” (2016-2019).
  • Pediatric Immunologist (certified by the Argentine Society for Pediatrics; 2019).
  • Chief Resident in Pediatric Immunology – Hospital de Pediatria S.A.M.I.C. “Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan” (2019 - 2020).

Selected publications

  1. Stefano P, Velazquez L, Berberian G, Simonetti ME, Palma A, Alvarez, M, Yancoski J, Bernasconi A, Oleastro M, Cervini, AB. Microsporum gypseum dermatophytosis in a child with primary immunodeficiency (Arch Argent Pediatr 2022 Jun;120(3):e128-e132. doi: 10.5546/aap.2022.e12; PMID: 35533125).
  2. Sbihi Z, Tanita, K, Bachelet C, Bole C, Jabot-Hanin F, Tores F, Le Loch M, Khodr R, Hoshino A, Lenoir1 C, Oleastro M, Villa M , Spossito L, Prieto E, Danielian S, Brunet E, Picard C, Taga T, Shimaa Said Mohamed Ali Abdrabou S, Isoda T, Yamada M, Palma A, Kanegane, H, Latour, S: Identification of germline non-coding deletions in XIAP gene causing XIAP deficiency reveals a key promoter sequence (J Clin Immunol. 2022 Jan 9. doi: 10.1007/s10875-021-01188-z. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35000057).
  3. Palma AM, Hanes M, Marshall J. Mast cell modulation of B cell responses: An under-appreciated partnership in host defence. Front Immunol. 2021 Sep 10;12:718499. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.718499. eCollection 2021. PMID: 34566974
  4. Ma CA, Stinson JR, Zhang Y, Abbott JK, Weinreich MA, Hauk PJ, Reynolds PR, Lyons JJ, Nelson CG, Ruffo E, Dorjbal B, Glauzy S, Yamakawa N, Arjunaraja S, Voss K, Stoddard J, Niemela J, Zhang Y, Rosenzweig SD, McElwee JJ, DiMaggio T, Matthews HF, Jones N, Stone KD, Palma A, Oleastro M, Prieto E, Bernasconi AR, Dubra G, Danielian S, Zaiat J, Marti MA, Kim B, Cooper MA, Romberg ND, Meffre E, Gelfand EW, Snow AL, Milner JD. Germline hypomorphic CARD11 mutations in severe atopic disease. Nat Genet. 2017 Oct 27;49(11):1661. doi: 10.1038/ng1117-1661b. PMID: 29074947
  5. Pelorosso FG, Halperin AV, Palma AM, Nowak W, Errasti AE, Rothlin RP.  Neutral endopeptidase up-regulation in isolated human umbilical artery: involvement in desensitization of bradykinin-induced vasoconstrictor effects. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2007 Feb;320(2):713-20. Epub 2006 Nov 3. PMID:17085545.