Dr. Richard R. Rosenthal is an immunologist, researcher, educator and consulting physician who has accrued over 50 years of experience, operating also as Richard R. Rosenthal, MD, Ltd. He has served in numerous positions over the course of his career. Since 2021, he has worked as a physician at the Premier Allergist in Northern Virginia, having also been Chief of the Allergy Section in the Department of Medicine at Inova Fairfax Hospital since 1975. Furthermore, Dr. Rosenthal has served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Clinical Immunology Division at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1975.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Rosenthal was a consultant for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with the National Institutes of Health and had a long career in the private practice of medicine, allergy and clinical immunology. He commenced his career in 1968 as a Clinical Associate in the Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He was a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service from 1968 to 1970. Outside of his primary career efforts, Dr. Rosenthal has been an editorial board member of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and has contributed numerous articles to professional journals.
To prepare for his career, Dr. Rosenthal attended Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, earning a Bachelor of Arts in biological sciences and a Master of Science in zoology in 1961 and 1962, respectively. He then completed a Doctor of Medicine degree at the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York in 1966. Following this, he completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Kings County Hospital, a residency in internal medicine at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
For his success in the field, Dr. Rosenthal was honored with grants from the National Institutes of Health in 1973. He also twice received the Continuing Education Award from the American Medical Association in 1969 and 1972. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians; the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and is past President of the Greater Washington Allergy Asthma and Immunology Society.