Exceptional care,designed for real life.
Regional Recognition, Team-Wide
You've been tested. Treated. Told to wait and see. And you're still not better.
Allergies. Asthma. Recurrent infections. These aren't inconveniences — they're symptoms with answers, and getting to those answers takes more than the standard protocol most practices stop at. We start with the standard workup too — but we don't stop where most practices do. Our evaluations go deeper: thorough testing, closer examination where it's warranted, and diagnostics aimed at understanding the immune system behind the symptoms, not just the symptoms themselves. The goal isn't to treat what's in front of us. It's to find out why it's happening.
"Too often, patients face the burden of allergies, recurrent infections, and symptoms that go unexplained. Our patients deserve better."
- karen kaufman, do faaaai
What This Practice Does Differently
Three things that separate a good allergy practice from the right one.
Depth of Training
Two Board Certifications, One Non-Negotiable Standard.
Board certification in Allergy and Immunology already requires prior certification in Internal Medicine or Pediatrics, plus two additional years of specialized training — it's not a credential a physician backs into. Every physician on this team holds both. That's not a marketing point; it's the floor we built the practice on, and the reason the physician with the next available opening is exactly as qualified as the one you already know by name.
Breadth of Care
Pediatric and adult patients, under one roof, built for both.
From a child's first allergic reaction to an adult's decade-long mystery diagnosis — this team is built to treat the full complexity of immune-mediated conditions across every age.
Depth of Team
One standard, held by everyone who wears the coat.
When you call for an appointment, the physician with the next opening is exactly as qualified as the one you might already know by name. That's not a compromise — it's the point.
YOUR CARE TEAM
A team built around one standard, not one name.
Dr. Karen Kaufman built this practice on a simple conviction: patients deserve to be treated as people, not numbers. Every visit here is guided by that same commitment — compassionate, comprehensive care, with the time it takes to actually listen and the judgment to decide together what's right for you.
That commitment isn't hers alone — it's the standard every physician and nurse practitioner on this team practices to. Shared decision-making. Unhurried visits. Care built around you, not a schedule. And this fall, the team grows again, with another physician joining who's held to that same standard from day one.
It's also why being named DC Modern Luxury's Best Allergy and Immunology Practice, and Washingtonian's Face of Allergy and Immunology, was never the achievement of one physician working alone. Every physician here trains rigorously, is dual board-certified, and delivers the same standard of care you'd expect from the name on the door. So when you book an appointment here, you're not choosing a name — you're choosing a team that holds itself to that standard, whichever physician you see.
Growing With Northern Virginia
A new physician is joining our team this year.
Demand for a practice built this way doesn't slow down — so neither do we. We're adding another physician to the team in the coming months, held to the same double board-certification standard as everyone else here. More appointments open up. Less time sits between you and an answer.
Regional Recognition, Team-Wide
Award-Winning Care, Not Award-Winning Individuals
Being named DC Modern Luxury's Best Allergy and Immunology Practice, and Washingtonian's Face of Allergy and Immunology, wasn't the achievement of one physician working alone — it's what happens when an entire team holds itself to the same standard, visit after visit.
How Care Is Delivered
A Process Built Around Your Time, Not Ours
A streamlined check-in, allergy shot visits that move quickly, and HIPAA-secure texting for anything in between mean your care team is reachable without you needing to reorganize your day around us.
The Credential That Can't Be Skipped
One Standard, Every Credential
Two double board-certified physicians. Two Doctorate-level nurse practitioners. No provider on this team meets a lower bar than any other — regardless of which one has the next available appointment.
WHAT WE TREAT
The immune system in all its complexity — treating the full scope of a patient's life, from a child's first diagnosis onward.
Allergy and Immune Mediated Conditions
Food allergy
and food intolerance
Eczema and Atopic dermatitis
Contact dermatitis
Hives and swelling
Asthma
Chronic cough
Allergic rhinitis
Chronic non-allergic rhinitis
Eosinophilic esophagitis
Drug allergy
Latex allergy
Anaphylaxis
Recurrent Infections and Immune Disorders
Frequent ear infections
Acute and Chronic Sinusitis
Nasal polyps
Bronchitis
Chronic cough
Pneumonia
Abscesses
Sepsis
Skin infections
Recurrent thrush
Eosinophilia
Mast Cell Disorders
Hereditary Angioedema
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
This is what it feels like to be understood.
ONE CLEAR DECISION
The right practice has been here.
Your answers are waiting.
A new patient appointment at Kaufman Allergy begins with a team that takes the time — and has the training — to understand the full picture.
