We are happy to announce a special guest appearance!

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Dr. Fauci was appointed director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.

Speakers

Amal H. Assa'ad, MD
Associate Director, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Professor of UC Department of Pediatrics, and Director of Clinical Services, Division of Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Kari Brown, MD
Senior Medical Director at Aimmune Therapeutics

Dr. Thomas Casale
Distinguished Chairman of the FARE Clinical Network, and Professor of Medicine at the University of South Florida

Sharon Chinthrajah, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine, Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Immunology and Allergy at Stanford

Christina E. Ciaccio, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago 

Amaziah Coleman, MD
Attending Physician, Division of Allergy and Immunology Children’s National Hospital, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Carla M. Davis, MD
Director, Food Allergy Program, Texas Children's Hospital

Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Tenure; Associate Chair of Research, Laboratory Medicine; Assistant Director of Clinical Pathology Residency Program at Yale

Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Clinical Attending at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Edwin H. Kim, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Program Director, UNC Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Program, Director, UNC Food Allergy Initiative, Medical Director, UNC Allergy & Immunology Clinic

Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Senior Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Co-Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, at the Brigham Research Institutes, Boston. 

Gideon Lack, MD
Professor of Pediatric Allergy at Kings College London

J. Christopher Love, PhD
Professor of Chemical Engineering at Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Nicholas W. Lukacs, PhD
Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology at University of Michigan Medical School  

Susan Lynch, PhD
Director, Colitis and Crohn's Disease Microbiome Research Core, Associate Professor and Department of Medicine - Gastroenterology at UCSF

Jennifer Maloney, MD
Executive Medical Director, Respiratory and Inflammation at Regeneron

Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale

Pharis Mohideen, MD
Chief Medical Officer at DBV

Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and, Director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University

Anna H. Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD, PhD
Director of the Pediatric Allergy Program at NYU Langone Health 

Bruce Roberts
Chief Research, Science and Innovation Officer

Hugh A. Sampson, MD
Professor, Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology at Mount Sinai

Alexandra Santos MD MSc MRCPCH FHEA PhD
Associate Professor at King's College London

Amy Scurlock, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital and researcher at Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute.

Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD
Chief, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Director, Food Allergy Center, Principal Investigator, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital

Scott H. Sicherer, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology at Mount Sinai

Ian H. Solomon
Dean and Professor of Practice of Public Policy at the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD
Chief of the Allergy Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Alkis Togias, MD
Branch Chief at NIAID/NIH

Carina Venter, PhD, RD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Allergy/Immunology at Children’s Hospital Colorado

Julie Wang, MD
Professor of pediatrics at Mount Sinai

Robert Alan Wood, MD
Director of Pediatric Allergy & Immunology Professor of Pediatrics