Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles

Cunningham-Rundles grew up in North Carolina,[1] the daughter of Dr. Wayne Rundles and Professor Mary Alice Cunningham-Rundles.[2] She graduated from Duke University in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in zoology.[3] She received a M.D, in 1969 from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed in 1972 her internship and residency at Bellevue Hospitall in New York City, and received a Ph.D. in immunology in 1974 from New York University School of Medicine,[3]

She specializes in allergy and immunology.[4] She worked as the director of the immunodeficiency clinic at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital[2] until she moved to Mount Sinai Hospital in 1986.[3] She is currently the David S. Gottesman Professor of Immunology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.[5] She is also a professor of medicine and pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a member of the Immunology institute.[5] She is the director of the Immunodeficiency Clinic at Mount Sinai, where she treats patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders.[1] She also does important drug research related to immunodeficiency disorders.[1] And, she is the director of the Allergy Immunology Fellowship training program.[5] According to her Mt Sinai hospital profile,"Rundles is an expert in the more than 150 Primary Immune Deficiency diseases, conditions that result from genetic defects of the immune system."[5]

She is a fellow of

• the American Federation for Clinical Research,
• the American College of Physicians,
• the American Association of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, where she is chair of the research committee.[3]

She is a member of

• American Board of Internal Medicine
• American Association of Immunologists
• Clinical Immunology Society, (secretary treasurer, 1994–1999, elected councilor, 1999, publications chair; president, 2003–2004)
• European Society for Immune Deficiency
• The Mucosal Immune Society
• The Harvey Society
• The Henry Kunkel Society