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2023 Speakers and Moderators

Katherine Anagnostou

MD PhD

Baylor College of Medicine

Professor in Pediatrics (Allergy) with expertise in food allergy. Research interests: food immunotherapy, infant anaphylaxis, microbiome, food allergy prevention and quality of life in food allergic individuals.

Amal Assa'ad

MD

Cincinnati Children's Hospital

As a pediatric allergist, Dr. Assa'ad sees patients with asthma, allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis, anaphylaxis, drug and vaccine allergy, eczema, immunodeficiencies, urticaria and angioedema.

Stefania Arasi

MD PhD

Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS

Dr. Arasi is a Pediatrician and Researcher at Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS and is Chair of the Pediatric Section Board at EAACI.

Cecilia Berin

PhD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Cecilia Berin is the Bunning Professor for Food Allergy Research, and was recruited to Northwestern from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2022.

Lucy Bilaver

PhD

Northwestern University Feinberg School Of Medicine

Dr. Bilaver has successfully coordinated a number of CFAAR's research projects including being the co-investigator on the Medicaid project, the Peanut Allergy Guidelines Assessment Clinician, Pediatrician, and Parent surveys project.

Helen Brough

MBBS, PhD, MA, MSc

King's College London

Dr Helen Brough is a consultant in paediatric allergy, and is head of services for the largest children’s allergy service in the UK, at Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

R. Sharon Chinthrajah

MD

Stanford University

Dr. Chinthrajah directs the CTRU of the Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research where she conducts translational research investigating immune mechanisms in food allergy and asthma.

Christina Ciaccio

MD MSc

University of Chicago

Christina Ciaccio, MD, MSc, provides compassionate care for children and adults with food and environmental allergies, allergic rhinitis, urticaria and angioedema, allergic rashes and asthma.

Elena Crestani

MD

Boston Children's Hospital

Dr. Elena Crestani is an allergist-immunologist in Boston, Massachusetts and is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital.

Alessandro Fiocchi

MD

Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS

Dr. Fiocchi is the Director of Allergy at the Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Vatican City. Formerly director of Pediatrics at the Melloni University Hospital in Milan, Italy, he’s an expert in the field of food allergy.

Lauren Gunderman

MD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Dr. Gunderman is an Allergy and Immunology Fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Ruchi Gupta

MD MPH

Northwestern University Feinberg School Of Medicine

Professor, Pediatrics & Medicine Northwestern University Lurie Children’s Hospital Director of the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR)

Neeraj Gupta

MBBS, DNB, IDPCCM, DCH

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Dr Neeraj is an Allergist and Pediatric Intensivist, currently working as Senior Consultant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi India. He is the course Director for Dip. Pediatric Allergy and Asthma(DPAA).

Marion Groetch

MS, RD, CDN

Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai

Marion is a registered dietitian with a master's degree in clinical nutrition and over 25 years of nutrition care experience. is involved in food allergy research and the care of patients with food allergy.

Gideon Lack

MBBCh

King's College London

Gideon Lack is Professor of Pediatric Allergy at King’s College London and a member of the MRC-Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma.

Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo

MD PhD

University of Rochester Medical Center

Dr. Järvinen-Seppo is the Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology and holds the inaugural Founders' Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Allergy. She is the Director of the Center for Food Allergy.

Antonella Muraro

MD PhD

University Of Padua

Dr. Maria Antonella Muraro is a Consultant Paediatric Allergist and a full-time member of the academic staff. She has been working for 20 years at the Allergy Unit of the Department of Paediatrics of the University of Padua.

Mahboobeh Mahdavinia

MD PhD

Rush University Medical Center

Mahboobeh (Maha) Mahdavinia, MD., PhD., FAAAAI, is a physician-scientist with a background in immunology of allergic diseases and a PhD in molecular epidemiology.

Rasika Mathias

Sc.D

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Dr. Mathias is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Peter Lio

MD

Northwestern University Feinberg School Of Medicine

Peter A. Lio, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology & Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology

Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn

MD PhD

Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone

Dr. Nowak-Wegrzyn is a pediatrician who specializes in preventing and treating allergies in children.

Sai Nimmagadda

MD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Sai Nimmagadda, MD serves as an Allergy Research Specialist on the CFAAR team. He is a board certified allergist who’s had nearly 30 years of clinical experience.

Cathryn Nagler

PhD

Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Cathryn Nagler obtained her PhD from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kari Nadeau

MD PhD

Harvard University

Dr. Kari Nadeau is the Naddisy Foundation Endowed Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Section Chief in Asthma and Allergy in the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division at Stanford

Waheeda Samady

MD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Dr. Samady is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine). She also serves as CFAAR's Director of Clinical Research. 

Rima Rachid

MD

Boston Children's Hospital

Dr. Rima Rachid is the Director of Allergen Immunotherapy, Allergy and Asthma Program. The Co-Director of the Food Allergy Program.

Rachel Peters

MD

Murdoch institute

Rachel Peters is head of the epidemiology stream of the Population Allergy research group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

Andrea Pappalardo

MD

UI Health

Dr. Pappalardo practices in the Division of Pediatric Allergy-Immunology at UI Health and serves as the asthma medical director in the Coordination of Healthcare for Complex Kids (CHECK) program.

Wayne Shreffler

MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Shreffler received his MD and PhD degrees from New York University and his Pediatrics training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Sayantani "Tina" Sindher

MD

Stanford University

Dr. Tina Sindher is the clinical associate professor of pediatrics and allergy/immunology at Stanford Health Care- Stanford Medicine.

Gary Soffer

MD

Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Gary Soffer is the Assistant Professor and Director of the Integrative Medicine Program at Yale. He specializes in Pediatric Allergy/Immunology and Integrative Medicine.

Alkis Togias

MD

National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Alkis Togias is an allergist-immunologist and works as Chief of the Asthma and Inflammation Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Christopher Warren

PhD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Dr. Warren is an Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern Medicine and serves as CFAAR’s Director of Population Health Research.

Julie Wang

MD

Mount Sinai Health System

Dr. Julie Wang is Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

Julia Upton

MD, MPH

University of Toronto

Dr. Julia Upton is a Clinical Immunologist and Allergist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto (U of T), and the Medical Director of the Clinical Research Centre.

Mimi Tang

MBBS, PhD

Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Professor Mimi Tang is an immunologist allergist with an established international profile in the field of allergic disorders - she is considered a leading expert in food oral immunotherapy.

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