THURSDAY PROGRAM

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Thursday Program Downloadable Syllabus

PREVENTION

• Harmonization, Differences in Guidelines, Unmet Needs and Implementation Barriers, Jonathan Hourihane, MD
• The Microbiome and Exposome: A Saucerful of Secrets, Susan Prescott, MD, PhD
• The Role of Diet Diversity and Other Factors Beyond Early Introduction in Promoting Prevention, Carina Venter, PhD, RD

ASSESSING PREVALENCE

• Rectifying Direct and Indirect Methods of Assessing Prevalence: Where We Are, Why Rates Differ and the Importance of Population-level Studies, Rachel Peters, MD, MPH, PhD
• Birth and Infant Cohorts: Why These Are Needed – the International Perspective, Syed Hasan Arshad, MBBS, DM
• Food Allergy in Africa: the SAFAR Cohort, Michael Levin, MBChB, FCPaed, MMed, PhD, FACAAI

FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH - THE FDA PERSPECTIVE ON TREATMENT AND UNMET NEEDS

• An Update on Thresholds and Labeling, Stefano Luccioli, MD, FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Compliance

TREATMENT

• Treatment Updates: What Are Our Present Options? Edwin H. Kim, MD, MS, FACAAI
• New Horizons: Anticipating the Next Evolution in Treatments Rima A. Rachid, MD
• Shared Decision-making and Understanding Parental Preference in Choice of Food Allergy Treatment Matthew Greenhawt, MD, MSc, MBA, FACAAI

BIGGER SUCCESS BEGETS BIGGER PROBLEMS: ISSUES ON THE HORIZON

• Cost-effective Practices in Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis, Marcus Shaker, MD, FACAAI
• Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Something Old, Something New: Making Sense of Older Versus New Diagnostic and Lab Technologies for Treatment Monitoring, Wayne G. Shreffler, MD, PhD
• Social Media, Advocacy and the Rise of Myths and Alternative Facts in Food Allergy, David R. Stukus, MD, FACAAI