Dr. Summit Shah, owner, Premier Allergy
Dr. Summit Shah is making allergy treatments more innovative by offering medical services in retail settings, providing advanced immunotherapy treatments and opening a free food allergy clinic.
It’s all part of Premier Allergy’s mission to give patients easy access to high-quality allergy care by using the latest medical advances, wrote Amber Nisley, office manager.
Shah’s goal is to give patients a speedy, accurate diagnosis and effective treatment plans. He treats patients with food, drug and environmental allergies. He offers solutions for allergy-induced asthma, hay fever, insect stings and eczema. Shah uses different diagnosis techniques, including skin testing, patch testing and spirometry. He performs needle-free testing for children who are afraid of them.
Four years ago, Shah introduced “rush” immunotherapy. The procedure works like allergy shots, but instead of weekly shots administered during a year, patients receive high doses of allergens equal to four or six shots within one day to rapidly build up their resistance. Additional follow-up treatments take place for a few months. For many patients, rush immunotherapy provides a cure for seasonal allergies.
A free food allergy clinic helps patients and their families learn how to live with a food allergy. Shah provides one-on-one counseling and his staff teaches families about safe foods, safe restaurants and how to help a child cope with a food allergy.
Shah now operates 10 Premier Allergy locations in Central Ohio. Those offices see between 300 and 600 new patients a month. His 35 employees say he also is an excellent leader. Shah mentors three physicians and four nurse practitioners. His staff also includes 15 nurses and front- office coordinators.