College of Medicine and Life Sciences

William Suarez, M.D.

William Suarez, M.D.

ProfessorDepartment of PediatricsPediatrics Residency Programwilliam.suarez@utoledo.eduProMedica Conrad Jobst Tower, 3rd Floor

Education

  • Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University 
  • Residency: Pediatrics, University Hospitals of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University 
  • Medical School: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Clinical Focus

Allergy and immunology

Selected Publications

  1. Yonkof, J. R., Basu, A., Redmond, M. T., Dobbs, A. K., Perelygina, L., Notarangelo, L. D., Abraham, R. S., & Rangarajan, H. G. (2023). Refractory, fatal autoimmune hemolytic anemia due to ineffective thymic-derived T-cell reconstitution following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for hypomorphic RAG1 deficiency. Pediatric blood & cancer, 70(5), e30183. https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc.30183 
  2. Lecerf, K., Koboldt, D. C., Kuehn, H. S., Jayaraman, V., Lee, K., Mihalic Mosher, T., Yonkof, J. R., Mori, M., Hickey, S. E., Franklin, S., Drew, J., Akoghlanian, S., Sivaraman, V., Rosenzweig, S. D., Wilson, R. K., & Abraham, R. S. (2022). Case report and review of the literature: immune dysregulation in a large familial cohort due to a novel pathogenic RELA variant. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 62(1), 347–359. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keac227 
  3. Yonkof, J. R., Mikhail, I. J., Prince, B. T., & Stukus, D. (2021). Delayed and Severe Reactions to Baked Egg and Baked Milk Challenges. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice, 9(1), 283–289.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2020.09.059 
  4. Kahwash, B. M., Yonkof, J. R., Abraham, R. S., Mustillo, P. J., Abu-Arja, R., Rangarajan, H. G., & Scherzer, R. (2021). Delayed-Onset ADA1 (ADA) Deficiency Not Detected by TREC Screen. Pediatrics, 147(6), e2020005579. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-005579 
  5. Shin, J. J., Catanzaro, J., Yonkof, J. R., Delmonte, O., Sacco, K., Shin, M. S., Reddy, S., Whittington, P. J., Soffer, G., Mustillo, P. J., Sullivan, K. E., Notarangelo, L. D., Abraham, R. S., Romberg, N., & Kang, I. (2021). Infectious Complications Predict Premature CD8+ T-cell Senescence in CD40 Ligand-Deficient Patients. Journal of clinical immunology, 41(4), 795–806. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-021-00968-x 
  6. Yonkof, J. R., Gupta, A., Rueda, C. M., Mangray, S., Prince, B. T., Rangarajan, H. G., Alshahrani, M., Varga, E., Cripe, T. P., & Abraham, R. S. (2020). A Novel Pathogenic Variant in CARMIL2 (RLTPR) Causing CARMIL2 Deficiency and EBV-Associated Smooth Muscle Tumors. Frontiers in immunology, 11, 884. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.00884 

Professional Associations/Affiliations

  • American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
  • American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology 
  • Clinical Immunology Society 
  • World Allergy Organization
  • North American Immuno-Hematology Consortium for Education & Research 
  • American Academy of Pediatrics

 

Conflict of Interest: None Reported

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Last Updated: 8/7/26