College of Medicine and Life Sciences

Jennifer R. Yonkof, M.D

Jennifer Yonkof, M.D.

Clinical Assistant ProfessorEducational Lead, Division of Allergy and ImmunologyDepartment of PediatricsPediatrics Residency Programjennifer.yonkof@promedica.org

Education

  • Fellowship: Allergy and Immunology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital 
  • Residency: Pediatrics, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital 
  • Medical School: University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences 

Clinical Focus

Allergy and immunology

Selected Publications

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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