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Food Allergy Fund Summit

Virtual | May 26-29, 2020

Virtual Summit Content

Friday | May 29

Closing Remarks: FAF Mission

  • Ilana Golant, Founder & CEO, Food Allergy Fund

Research Presentation: New Strategies for Prevention of Food Allergy

  • Kirsten Perrett, MD, Group Leader/Clinician Scientist Fellow, Population Allergy Research Group and Melbourne Children’s Trial Centre, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (Australia)

Cooking with Chef Rocco DiSpirito, Author and Healthy Living Expert

Concert with Kyle Dine, Performer, Educator, CEO & Founder of Allergy Translation

Thursday | May 28

Fireside Chat - Microbiome: The Gut and Food Allergies

  • Bernat Olle, CEO, Vedanta Biosciences

  • Dr. Dick Insel, MD, Healthy Baby Initiative, Janssen Research & Development, LLC

Cooking with Chef Richard Blais, Winner, Bravo’s Top Chef All-Stars

Research Presentation: Antibodies that Promote Versus Prevent Food Allergy

  • Dr. Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Immunobiology and Medicine (Immunology), Associate Chair of Research, Laboratory Medicine, Assistant Director of Clinical Pathology Residency Program, Yale School of Medicine

FDA's Temporary Policy Change on Food Labeling

  • Mary Vargas, Partner, Stein & Vargas LLP

Wednesday | May 27

Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Food Allergies

  • Moderator: Julie Zeveloff, U.S. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder, Insider

  • Renuka Babu, CEO & Co-Founder, DOTS Technology Corp

  • Anat Binur, Co-Founder & CEO, Ukko

  • Shandee Chernow, CEO & Founder, CertiStar

  • Skyler Stein, President, Gladskin USA

Cooking with Chef Ming Tsai, Author & Restaurateur, Host, PBS’ Simply Ming

Research Presentation: New Approaches to the Diagnosis of Peanut Allergies

  • Dr. Alexandra Santos, MD, PhD, Associate Professor (Reader in Pediatric Allergy), King’s College London, Honorary Consultant in Pediatric Allergy, Evelina London Children’s Hospital Research

Research Presentation: How Covid is Stimulating New Ideas that Benefit Food Allergies with Particular Focus on Eosinophilic Esophagitis

  • Dr. Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD, Director, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Director, Cincinnati Center for Eosinophilic Disorders Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Tuesday | May 26

Psycho-Social Impact of Food Allergies

  • Moderator: Gina Clowes, Food Allergy Coach & Consultant; Founder of AllergyMoms

  • Dr. Eyal Shemesh, MD, Professor, Pediatrics, Behavioral Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

  • Dr. Jennifer Lebovidge, PhD, Attending Psychologist, Division of Immunology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Cooking with Chef Jason Smith, Judge, Food Network’s Best Baker in America

Cooking with Chef Nikki Dinki, Author, Meat on the Side Cookbook, Co-Host, Cooking Channel’s Junk Food Flip

Research Presentation: Prevention of Food Allergy: Does early introduction work?

  • Dr. Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD, Chief of the Allergy Program, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Stuart E. Starr Chair of Pediatrics University of Pennsylvania

Research Presentation: Regulation of Allergic Responses to Food by Intestinal Bacteria

  • Dr. Cathryn R. Nagler, PhD, Bunning Family Professor, Department of Pathology, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering University of Chicago


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