Dr. Spector is an internationally recognized expert in the field of allergy, asthma and clincal immunology. He earned his medical degree at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Postgraduate education included residency in Internal Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, research fellowship in the Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsiology at the National Institutes of Health, and fellowship in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, Colorado. He was head of the Allergy Division there for approximately 10 years. He also spent one year in Paris as a US Public Health Service Research Fellow under the renowned allergist, Prof. Bernard Halpern.

Dr. Spector is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine. He was on the Board of Regents of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). He has held numerous leadership positions including Allergy and Immunology Program Director at the National Jewish Hospital, Past President of the Los Angeles Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the California Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. He continues to serve on the Task Force of Practice Parameters.

He has published over 300 journal articles, books and book chapters and lectures all over the world. He received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1994, as well as the Distinguished Service Awards from both the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI).