Dr. Zappi has received several awards for his research in lupus and other rheumatologic skin diseases. He is an attending faculty member at New York University Medical Center Skin and Cancer Unit where he directs a chronic wound and ulcer clinic.

Dr. Eugene Zappi

Dr. Zappi graduated medical school in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1985, and is fluent in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Dr. Zappi received Internal Medicine Board certification in 1989. In 1991 he completed an Immunodermatology Fellowship at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. His dermatology residency training was completed in Dallas and in 1994 he obtained his Board certification in Dermatology. Dr. Zappi is married to Dr. Laura Buccheri-Zappi, a dermatologist native of Brazil who works with him in their New York office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (top)

1997 - Present	Solo Private Practice - Dermatology Eugene G. Zappi, M.D. Laura Buccheri Zappi, M.D.
1994 - Present	Private Practice Group Associate - Dermatology Ronald Brancaccio, MD PC, Peter Milburn MD 7901 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11209 67 Perry Street, New York, NY 10014
1995 - Present	Clinical Assistant Professor - Dermatology New York University Medical Center New York, NY Director of Chronic Wound and Ulcer Clinic
1991 - 1994	Assistant Clinical Instructor - Dermatology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX

CERTIFYING EXAMINATIONS (top)

1994	American Board of Dermatology
1991	American Board of Internal Medicine

POST GRADUATE TRAINING (top)

1991-1994	Dermatology Residency University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX
1989-1991	Immunodermatology Fellowship University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX
1986-1989	Internal Medicine Residency St. John’s Episcopal Hospital Queens, NY

EDUCATION (top)

1979-1985

University of Buenos Aires Medical School Buenos Aires, Argentina

AWARDS & HONORS (top)

1994	American Academy of Dermatology International Scholarship Award
1991	Dermatology Foundation Research Fellowship Award
1991	Upjohn Research Award

MEMBERSHIPS (top)

President Elect	Dermatologic Society of Greater New York
Scientific Chairman	Bay Ridge Medical Society
Member	New York State Society of Dermatology
Fellow	Academy of Dermatology
Member	American College of Physicians

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS (top)
New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY


PUBLICATIONS (top)
EG Zappi, Haseman CA, Miller AB, Lieu TS, Michalak M, Sontheimer RD, Capra JD. Analysis of the Autoantigenicity and hYRNA Association of Recombinant Calreticulin. Submitted for publication.

U Kishore, Sontheimer RD, Sastry KN, Zappi EG, Hughes GRV, Khamashta MA, Reid KBM, Eggleton P. The Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Disease Autoantigen - Calreticulin can Inhibit Clq-Association with Immune Complexes. Clin Exp Immunol, 108:181-190, 1997.

U Kishore, Sontheimer RD, Sastry KN, Kaner KS, Zappi EG, Hughes GRV, Khamashta MA, Strong P, Reid KBM, Eggleton P. Release of Calreticulin from Neutrophils may alter Clq-Mediated Immune Functions. Biochem J, 322:543-550, 1997.

EG Zappi, Brancaccio RR. Mupirocin Allergy, A Case Report. J Am Acad Dermatol, 36:266-267, 1997.

J Karhoum, Zappi EG, Cockerel C. Sclerotic Primary Cutaneous Leiomyosarcoma. Am J Dermatopathol, 17:292-296, 1995.

T Kawashima, Zappi EG, Lieu TS, Sontheimer RD. Impact of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Cellular Expression of Ro/SS-A Autoantigenic Polypeptides in Transformed Human Epidermal Keratinocytes. Lupus, 3:493-500, 1994

T Kawashima, Zappi EG, Lieu TS, Sontheimer RD. Impact of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Cellular Expression of Ro/SS-A Autoantigenic. Dermatology 189:6-10, 1994

P Eggleton, Lieu TS, Zappi EG, Sastry K, Coburn J, Zaner KS, Sontheimer RD, Capra JD, Ghebrehiwet B, Tauber AI. Calreticulin is Released from Activated Neutrophils and Binds to Clq and Mannan-Binding Protein. Clin Immunol Immunopathol, 72:405-409, 1994

DP McCauliffe, Zappi EG, Lieu TS, Michalak M, Sontheimer RD, Capra JD. Ro/SS-A Autoantigen is the Homologue of Calreticulin and is Highly Homologous with Onchocercal RAL-1 Antigen and an Aplysia “Memory Molecule”. J Clin Invest, 86:332-335, 1990.


CHAPTERS AND REVIEWS (top)
EG Zappi, Sontheimer RD, Clinical relevance of Antibodies to Ro (SS-A)/La (SS-B) in SCLE and Related Conditions. Immunological Investigations, 22:189-204, 1993

EG Zappi, Sontheimer RD, Clinical relevance of Antibodies to Ro (SS-A)/La (SS-B) in SCLE and Related Conditions. Clinics in Dermatology, 10:431-443, 1992

RD Sontheimer, McCauliffe DP, Zappi EG, Targoff I. Antinuclear Antibodies: Clinical Correlations and Biological Significance. Advances in Dermatology. Year Book Publishers, Inc. Chicago, London, Boca Raton, 1991.