Food Allergy Fundamentals

Speaker: Amanda Cox, MD

Learners will be able to describe the classification system for adverse food reactions and specific conditions.

Speaker: John James, MD

Learners will have a deeper understanding of the pathophysiology of IgE-mediated food allergy, and provide answers to questions from how sensitization most often occurs to the distinctions between non-IgE and IgE-mediated food allergy.

Speaker: Ruchi Gupta, MD

Learners will have a better understanding of the epidemiology of food allergy across geographic, racial and ethnic groups and be equipped to provide improved clinical care and management informed by these differences.

Speaker: Kathleen Wang, MD

Learners will understand the differences between heat stable and heat-labile food allergens, between immunologic cross-sensitization and clinical cross-reactivity and know the rates of clinical cross-reactivity, equipping them to provide better guidance to patients with food allergy.

Speaker: Pooja Varshney, MD

Learners will be able to explain the wide variation in the presentation of symptoms, as well as explain other factors known to augment the severity of food-induced allergic reactions.

Speaker: Marisa Hodges, MD

Learners will be able to explain food allergy diagnostic tools and the appropriate use of IgE testing in diagnosis.

Speaker: Amanda Cox, MD

Learners will understand the role and benefits of oral food challenges in determining food tolerance or allergy.

Speaker: Lynda Schneider, MD

Learners will understand the connection between atopic dermatitis (AD) and food allergy and optimal care for AD.

Speakers: Carina Venter, PhD, RD; Dan Atkins, MD

Learners will better understand the presentation of eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders, as well as common triggers and treatment options.

Speaker: Joyce Yu, MD

Learners will be able to explain the connections between asthma and food allergy, and have a better understanding of the role of asthma management in food allergy.

Speaker: Sara Anvari, MD, MSc

Learners will better understand the symptoms, diagnosis and management of food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES).

Speaker: Jonathan Tam, MD

Learners will be able to explain the differences between food protein-induced proctocolitis and food protein-induced enteropathy, as well as presenting signs, symptoms and management techniques.

Speakers: Anne Marie Singh, MD; Eric Schauberger, PhD, DO

Learners will be able to explain the complex and multifaceted components of food allergy, including diagnosis, monitoring for the emergence of natural tolerance, screening for nutritional and psychosocial issues and educating the patient and family on living with food allergies across childhood.

Speaker: Aikaterini Anagnostou, MD

Learners will be familiar with the triggers, signs, comorbidities and appropriate response for anaphylaxis, as well as the need to educate patients and their families on managing potential reactions with an epinephrine training and a personalized medical plan.

Speaker: Stephanie Leonard, MD

Learners will understand the available data on early intervention, infant feeding practices, microbiome influences, diet composition, vitamin and deficiency and eczema in relation to food allergy prevention.

Speaker: Kristin Sokol, MD

Learners will understand the current landscape and benefits versus risks of oral immunotherapy and be better equipped to engage in shared decision-making with their patients.

Speaker: Drew Bird, MD

Learners will understand the current safety and efficacy data on epicutaneous immunotherapy.

Speaker: Sayantani Sinder, MD

Learners will understand how biologics are currently being studied as monotherapy and adjunctive therapy with allergen specific OIT in the treatment of food allergy.

Speaker: Stacy Dorris, MD

Learners will become familiar with the many unproven, and potentially dangerous, diagnostic and therapeutic options patients may ask about, and be prepared to offer accurate counseling about these unproven modalities.

Speaker: Tamara Hubbard, LCPC

Learners will understand the potentially negative psychosocial impacts of having food allergy on the patient and their family, ranging from anxiety to bullying and peer pressure.

Speaker: Jennifer Pier, MD

Learners will understand what is currently known about food allergy in infants who are breast-fed and obtain insights into a proposed evaluation.

Speaker: Girish Vitalpur, MD

Learners will understand some of the key considerations for management of food allergy in the school setting and be equipped to work with the patient and school to create individualized and effective care plans for children with food allergies in the school setting.

Speaker: Jordan Heath, MD

Learners will understand how to recognize and diagnose galactose-alpha-1, 3-galactose syndrome (alpha-gal).

Speakers: Punita Ponda, Stefani Su, Tyrone Coyle, Alissa McInerney, Idil Ezhuthachan

Learners will understand the various safety testing done to evaluate genetically modified (GM) foods for allergenicity, as well as the current lack of evidence for adverse reactions due to GM.

Speaker: Heather Cassell, MD

Learners will be able to explain the current U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling laws and importance of label reading to patients.

Speaker: Amber Pepper, MD

Learners will understand when to suspect additive or preservative allergy and the diagnostic tools available to help establish a diagnosis.

Speaker: John James, MD

Learners will understand what shared decision-making is, the benefits and barriers to it, unique situations in it and an approach to shared decision-making in food allergy.