Rita Kachru, MD

• Food Allergy
• Oral Immunotherapy
• Atopic Dermatitis
• Eosinophilic Esophagitis

1. Kachru R. (September 2020). Psychosocial Issues and Quality of Life Associated with Food Allergy. Journal of Food Allergy. Food Allergy Primer, 2(1), 95-98
2. Kachru R, Lim K, Anderson L. (2020). The Role of Biologics and Precision Based Medicine in Treating Atopic Diseases in Children. Current Treatment Options Allergy, 7, 312-325
3. Palisade Group of Clinical Investigators, Kachru R. (November 2018). AR101 Oral Immunotherapy for Peanut Allergy. New England Journal of Medicine, 379(21), 1991-2001
4. Kohn L, Kachru R. (February 2019). Management Dilemma: Initial Treatment for Newly Diagnosed SLE complicated by Corticosteroid Allergy. J Allergy Clin Immunol., 143(2), Supplement p1A-4A; AB1-440.
5. Peng T, Wang V, Kachru R. (February 2017). Retrospective Review of Clinical Outcomes Post Physician-Supervised Negative Oral Baked Egg Challenge.  J Allergy Clin Immunol., 139(2), Supplement
6. Corren J, Kachru R.  (2016). Relationship between nonallergic airway disease and asthma. In J. N. Baraniuk, and D. Shusterman (Eds.). Nonallergic rhinitis: Clinical Allergy and Immunology, book 19 (pp. 100-114). CRC Press.
7. Bundy V, Geng B, Kachru R, Garcia-Lloret M. (November 2014). IgG4-Related Disease in a patient with allergic rhinitis, eosinophilia and chronic urticaria. J Allergy Clin Immunol., 113(5), A15
8. Corren J, Kachru R. (2007). Relationship between nonallergic upper airway disease and asthma, Clin Allergy Immunol., 19, 101-14
9. Kachru R, Morphew T, Kehl S, Jones C. (January 2007). Validation of a single survey that can be used for case identification and assessment of asthma control: The Breathmobile Program. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunol., 97(6), 775-83
10. Kachru R, Corren J. (January 2007). Characteristics of Chronic Rhinitis in Children. J Allergy Clin Immunol., 119(1)

Dr. Kachru has appeared on:

• The Doctors
• The Ricki Lake Show
• NBC Nightly News with Lestor Holt

Dr. Kachru has been a medical consultant for:

• LA Times
• LA Parent Magazine
• Medscape
• Undark
• KPCC

• Top Doctors, Los Angeles Magazine, 2024, 2025
• Super Doctors® Southern California, 2020 - 2025
• Top Doctors, Los Angeles Magazine, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Food Allergy Research Education Clinical Care Network, 2015 - present, Principal Investigator
• Genentech, Open Label Extension Study of Omalizumab in patients with Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps, (Apr 2018 – Nov 2018), Principal Investigator
• Aimmune Therapeutics, Real World AR101 Market Supporting Experience Study in Peanut-Allergic Children Ages 4 to 17 years old, (2017 – 2018), Principal Investigator

• Aimmune Therapeutics, Peanut Oral Immunotherapy Study of AR101 For Desensitization in Children and Adults (PALISADES) (2015 - 2017), Principal Investigator

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