Faculty

Professor Of Pediatrics
NYU R. Grossman School of Medicine, Hassenfeld Children's Ho
United States

Anna Nowak-Węgrzyn, M.D., PhD, FAAAAI, FACAAI is a Professor of Pediatrics at the New York University R. Grossman School of Medicine, the Director of the Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Division, Department of Pediatrics, the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, New York, NY, and the Director of FARE Clinical Research Center of Distinction at NYU.

Her research interests focus on egg and milk allergies, baked milk and baked egg diets, food-induced anaphylaxis in children, novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to food allergy (oral, sublingual and patch immunotherapy), oral tolerance development, and in particular food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES).

She was a director of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, 2017-2022. In 2022, she has been elected to the Board of Directors of AAAAI.

She serves as the chair of the Medical Advisory Board for the International FPIES Association and has led the international effort to write the first Consensus Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of FPIES, published in 2017.

She is the Associate Editor for the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the official journal of the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology.

Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
United States

Amal Assa’ad, MD is Professor at the University of Cincinnati (UC), Clinical Medical Director of Clinical and Associate Director of the Division of Allergy and Immunology (A/I) at Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC).

Dr. Assa'ad is a clinician, educator and researcher, with over 100 peer reviewed publications in Allergy and Immunology. She is funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the United States and by the Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) for research in food allergy and eosinophilic disorders.

Senior Consultant
KK Women's and Children's Hospital
Singapore

Dr Anne Goh is the Senior Consultant of the Paediatric Allergy Service and the Respiratory Medicine Service at the Department of Paediatrics, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore.

She is also the President of the Asian Paediatric Pulmonology Society and the Head of the Paediatric Lung Disease Assembly of the Asia Pacific Society of Respirology and ex- President of the Singapore Paediatric Society. Dr Goh is a reviewer for many journals including Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals, Singapore Medical Journal, Respirology, Annals Academy of Medicine, Paediatric International, Pediatric Pulmonology, Emerging infectious Diseases, Clinical and Developmental Immunology, NMRC Exploratory and Developmental proposals and for the MIMS Respiratory Guide. She is also a Clinical Professor of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Associate Professor of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. She is a Senior Lecturer of the Yong Yoo Lin School of Medicine. With clinical and research interests in the areas including respiratory infections, bronchial asthma management, obstructive sleep apnoea and allergy, Dr Goh has authored or co-authored several peer-reviewed papers as well as given many presentations at national and international courses and conferences. She is also actively involved in many asthma-related, infectious disease and allergy clinical trials.

Divisional Chairman, Medicine
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Singapore

1. Senior Consultant, Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology; Divisional Chairman, Medicine; Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
2. Second Vice-President, APAAACI Board 2023-2024.
3. Associate Editor, Asia Pacific Allergy Journal.
4. Chairman, Section of Clinical Immunologists and Allergists, College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore.

Prof.
MD., PhD, FAAAAI
Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital, Seoul
Korea

Prof. Chang-Keun Kim is currently President of 'The Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Diseases (KAPARD)'. He is also Professor of the Asthma & Allergy Center at Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

Prof. Kim is a member of National Academy of Medicine of Korea. He is a member of several professional committees including International Fellow of American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (FAAAAI) (U.S.A.). He had the Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Fellowship at Seoul National University Hospital.

He has served a total of 5 years in USA including an Allergy Research Associate at the National Jewish Health, Denver (Sally Wenzel), Mayo Clinic Hospital, Rochester, and University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI, USA.

He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in English and Korean journals. His research interests include Biomarkers, bronchial asthma, eosinophils and respiratory infection

Head and Senior Consultant, Allergy Service
KK Women's And Children's Hospital, Singapore
Singapore

Dr. Chong Kok Wee is Head of the Paediatric Allergy Service and a Senior Consultant at the Department of Paediatrics, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), Singapore. He received his medical degree from the National University of Singapore in 2007 and obtained his post-graduate Paediatric Medicine specialist qualifications in 2012. In 2019, he completed his fellowship in paediatric allergy at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College, London. His research interests include food and drug allergies in children, as well as food oral immunotherapy. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of using pancakes in a novel egg oral immunotherapy program. He serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Duke-NUS Medical School and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in Singapore.

Assistant Professor
Yong Loo Lin School Of Medicine, National University Of Singapore
Singapore

Dr Elizabeth Tham is Consultant and Head of the Division of Paediatric Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology at the Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital; as well as Assistant Professor, Clinician-Scientist, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSoM), National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also a Principal Investigator in the Growing Up in Singapore towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) and Singapore PREconception Study of long-Term maternal and child Outcomes (S-PRESTO) cohorts.

She is a Clinician-Scientist with a research focus on childhood allergic disorders, early life immunomodulation and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DoHAD). Her research aims to study risk factors and endophenotypes of childhood allergic disorders, and to elucidate the role of the skin, gut and environmental microbiomes in modulating atopic dermatitis risk and disease control; with an eventual goal of developing translational interventions for disease prevention and improvement of clinical care.

Prof Respiratory Medicine & Allergy
Humanitas University Milano Italy
Italy

Giorgio Walter Canonica
Allergist and Pulmonologist

Giorgio Walter is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Humanitas University, Milan-Italy & Director Personalized Medicine Asthma & Allergy Center at Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS-Milano Italy Professor Canonica got his medical degree from the University of Genoa, Italy.

• specialised in Pulmonary Diseases in Genoa
• specialised in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Florence University, Italy.

He subsequently conducted clinical immunology and allergology research at several European & US Universities and Institutes, such as the

• Biomedicum-Uppsala University Sweden
• MUSC-Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA.

Since returning to the University of Genoa in 1995, Professor Canonica has held a number of academic positions, including:

• Full Professor Internal Medicine
• Director of the Speciality School of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
• Full Professor of Pulmonary Medicine
• Director of the Specialty School of Pulmonary Diseases
• Chairman of the Department of Medical Specialties (University Hospital San Martino Genoa, Italy).
• Laurea Honoris Causa – Cluji-Napoca Medical University -Romania
• He has been defined LEGEND of Allergy and Immunology in 2021 , Allergy. 2021;00:1–3.
• 2022 Lyfetime Achievement Award – APAACI- Asian Pacific Association Allergy Clinical Immunology- Manila
• 2023 Lyfetime Achievement Award WAO- World Allergy Organization -Dubai 

He has been serving as President international organizations as:

• President of WAO-World Allergy Organization
• President of Interasma-Global Asthma Association
• President of SIAAIC- Italian Society Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology
• President of SIMER-Italian Society Respiratory Medicine

Currently:

• ExCom Member of ARIA-Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma
• Board Member of GA²LEN – Global Allergy & Asthma Excellence Network
• President 2022/24 of REG-Respiratory Effectiveness Group
• Chair of the EAACI Methodology Committee (2019-2024).
• Chair WAO Biologics in Severe Asthma ( 2023-2024 )
• International Advocate GINA-Global Asthma InitiAtive
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences
• Steering Committee Member of SANI-Severe Asthma Network Italy registry.
• GWC is Fellow of : ERS-ACAAI-AAAAI-EAACI

Topic of Research:

Asthma & Allergy: Mechanisms & Treatments, including Pharmacological treatments, Biologics and Allergen ImmunoTherapy in the context of Precision & Personalized Medicine H index 131; Citations >83.000 ; Peer-Reviewed Papers >900 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8467-2557

Professor And Director
Philipps University
Deutschland

Prof. Harald Renz is Director and Professor of the Institute of Laboratory Medicine at Philipps University Marburg, Germany. He has held this position since 1999. From 2015 to 2021 he was Medical Director and CMO of Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg GmbH, Marburg Campus. Since 2022 he is the President of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine e.V. (DGKL). Since 2010 he serves as deputy spokesperson of the Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), which is one of five sites of the German Lung Center (DZL). His research is devoted to the pathogenesis of allergies and asthma, with focus on gene-environment interactions, the role of the microbiome and epigenetic regulation. In 2012/13, he was Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Medical School in Boston. In 2018 he was Visiting Professor at the Hadassah Medical School Jerusalem, Israel. From 2010 to 2016 he was President of the German Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (DGAKI). He currently holds a visiting professorship for Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Moshi, Tanzania

Professor, Director
Taipei Hospital, Ministry Of Health And Welfare
Taiwan

Present Position & Organizational positions:

1. Deputy superintendent, Teaching and Research Association of the Ministry of Health and Welfare
2. Chairman, Department of Medical Research
3. Director, Department of Allergy and Immunology. Visiting Staff of Pediatrics, Taipei Hospital Ministry of Health and Welfare
4. Professor, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University College of Public Health, China Medical University
5. Secretary General, Taiwan Academy of Pediatric Allergy Asthma and Immunology
6. Investigator, National Health Research Institutes
7. Associate Editor of Frontiers in Immunology (SCI), Journal of medicine and health, Journal of Allergy & Therapy

Key Academic Achievements:

• EMBA, National Taiwan University
• PhD, National Taiwan University
• MD, China Medical University
• Fellow, Pediatric Allergy, National Taiwan University Hospital
• Fellow, Precision Medicine Oxford University
• Fellow, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology

Research Interest:

• Genetic Epidemiology, Environmental epigenetics
• Pediatric environmental health, Cohort study
• Smart health care
• Probiotics, microbiome
• Outbreak investigation and risk management

Honors and Awards:

• International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
• Rebecca James Baker Memorial Prize
• American Pediatric Academic Societies Best research award
• Dr. Carlo Urbani Infection disease control policy award
• Physician Award for Medichem Taiwan
• TAPAAI Nestles’ Best paper award
• New Taipei City Health Bureau Health Care Award

Leadership Experience:

1. Director, Department of Laboratory Medicine
2. Chief Executive of the Ethics Review Board, Taipei Hospital
3. PI of Taiwan Childhood Environment and Allergic diseases Study ( CEAS)

Senior Consultant
National University Hospital
Singapore

Dr Soh Jian Yi is a paediatrician subspecialising in Allergy. As a clinician-educator, he holds the portfolios of clinical reasoning and evidence-based medicine in his Department’s residency program. In 2015, he founded the first clinical service in Singapore providing oral immunotherapy for food allergies.

Consultant
Malaysian Society Of Allergy And Immunology
Malaysia

Dr. Kent Woo graduated from medical school at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. He then obtained his Internal Medicine residency training at Eastern Virginia Medical School where he was nominated by his peers to serve as Chief Resident of Internal Medicine. Subsequently, he served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and developed the academic hospitalist program at Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia.

Later on, Dr. Woo pursued further subspecialty training in the field of Allergy and Immunology at Louisiana State University. He was inducted as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society for his excellence in medicine. Dr Woo is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. He was also awarded a Diploma in Clinical Dermatology with distinction from Queen Mary University of London.

Dr. Woo is currently the President of MSAI (Malaysian Society of Allergy Immunology) and sees both pediatric and adult patients with allergic diseases at Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur.

Head, Department of Dermatology; Director, Allergy Centre,
Singapore General Hospital
Singapore

Dr Lee Haur Yueh is currently the Head and Senior Consultant in the Department of Dermatology and the Director of the Allergy Centre in Singapore General Hospital. His areas of interests include severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions, autoimmune blistering diseases as well as medical dermatology. He has undergone further subspecialty fellowing training in these areas at the Hopital Henri Mondor, Creteil, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, France; Inselspital, Bern Switzerland; as well as King’s College Hospital, London, UK.

President
Beijing Tongren Hospital
China

Professor Luo Zhang is one of the most well-known rhinologists in China, and in the world because of his major scientific contributions to the field. Currently, he is President of Beijing TongRen Hospital.

Head and Senior Consultant
Kk Women's & Children's Hospital
Singapore

Dr. Mark Koh is a dermatologist, paediatric dermatologist and dermatopathologist. He is head and senior consultant of Dept of Dermatology, KK Women's & Children's Hospital.

Michael J. Friedlander Professor Of Medicine And Professor Of Microbiology & Immunology And Surgical Sciences (in Surgery), Columbia University Director, Columbia Center For Translational Immunology, Columbia University College Of Physicians And Surgeons Director Of Research, Transplant Initiative, Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Research, Division Of Hematology/oncology Columbia University Medical Center
Columbia University
United States

Megan Sykes’ research career, during which she has published >480 papers and book chapters, has focused on hematopoietic cell transplantation, organ allograft tolerance induction, xenotransplantation tolerance and Type 1 diabetes. She has developed novel strategies for achieving graft-versus-tumor effects without GVHD following hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). She developed an approach that was evaluated in clinical trials of non-myeloablative haploidentical HCT whose safety and efficacy allowed trials of HCT for the induction of organ allograft tolerance, achieving tolerance in humans for the first time. She has dissected tolerance mechanisms and pioneered minimal conditioning approaches for using HCT to achieve allograft and xenograft tolerance. She developed a method of tracking alloreactive T cells in human transplant recipients and used it and other techniques to investigate T lymphocyte dynamics in the graft and the periphery of human transplant recipients. Her work on xenogeneic thymic transplantation for tolerance induction led, for the first time, to long-term kidney xenograft survival in non-human primates. She developed novel “humanized mouse” models that allow personalized analysis of human immune disorders and therapies. Dr. Sykes is Past President of the International Xenotransplantation Association and was Vice President of The Transplantation Society. She is currently President of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS). Dr. Sykes received numerous honors and awards, including the Medawar Prize 2018 and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the Association of American Physicians.

Head of Laboratory
Monash University
Australia

Prof Menno van Zelm obtained his PhD from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2007), and held postdoc positions at the University of California San Diego (USA) and the Erasmus MC (the Netherlands), prior to becoming Lab Head at the Erasmus MC (2010). In 2015, he was recruited to Monash University and the Alfred Hospital where he is currently Deputy Head (research) of the Department of Immunology.

Dr. van Zelm has received continuous fellowship support in the Netherlands and Australia (current NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship). In 2010, he received the Heineken Young Scientists Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Menno van Zelm is chair of the President of HCDM, the organisation that assigns CD Nomenclature, and founding director of the JMF Centre for Immunodeficiencies in Melbourne. He heads the Allergy and Clinical Immunology laboratory, has published >160 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and is co-inventor on several patent applications. In 2019, he developed technology to detect antigen-specific B-cells in collaboration with Prof Robyn O’Hehir (Alfred Health) and Prof P. Mark Hogarth (Burnet Institute), and currently applies this to evaluate B-cell memory in allergies (NHMRC Ideas grant) and infectious disease, including SARS-CoV2 (MRFF grant).

Clinical Professor
The University of Western Australia
Australia

Professor Michaela Lucas, Dr Med MD, FRACP, FRCPA

Clinical Professor Michaela Lucas is an Immunologist/Immunopathologist and Clinician-Scientist with conjoint appointments at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, the Perth Children’s Hospital, and The University of Western Australia, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team of clinical and basic science researchers, and microsurgeons, at the Immunology and Transplantation Lab. After completing medical training in Germany, she received a Marie Curie Research Fellowship and undertook a four-year postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford where she studied liver T-cell immunology. Her research interests and expertise span T cell immunology including the pathogenesis of T cell mediated drug allergies.

Professor Lucas’s research has produced over 150 peer-reviewed papers. She has held multiple NHMRC and ACH2 grants as principle and co-investigator, and has conducted two investigator-driven randomised controlled trials in antibiotic allergy. Professor Lucas is a leading clinician in the field of drug allergy management in Australia and the project lead in Drug Allergy for the National Allergy Strategy. She is the past President of the Australasian Society of Immunology and Allergy, co-director of the National Allergy Council (NAC) and co-chair of the Drug Allergy Stream for NAC and the National Allergy Centre of Excellence.

Director
Hiroshima City Hiroshima Citizens Hospital
Japan

Dr Hide graduated Hiroshima University and obtained MD, Ph.D degrees in 1988. He then moved to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland and engaged in research with Dr MA Beaven about intracellular signal transductions of mast cells. In 1990, he moved to London, and worked with Prof. MW Greaves and Dr CE Grattan, and demonstrated the presence of IgG autoantibody against -subunit of the high affinity IgE receptor (FcRI) in chronic spontaneous urticaria. He came back to Japan in 1993 and worked in Onomichi for three years as a general dermatologist, and in 1996, back to Hiroshima University. He was appointed for a chairman professor of the Department of Dermatology in 2011, Dean of Medical School of Hiroshima University from 2016 to 2020, and deputy president until March of 2021. In April of 2021, he moved to Hiroshima City Hiroshima Citizens Hospital as the director and continues to be involved in both clinical and basic research of dermatology, immunology and allergy, especially urticaria, angioedema and atopic dermatitis.

He has published more than 300 scientific papers in English, played roles as an editorial board member of English journals, and a delegate of medical organizations, such as Japanese Dermatological Association, and Japanese Society of Allergology in the committees of many international clinical guidelines.

Consultant Dermatologist
Sarawak General Hospital
Malaysia

Consultant Dermatologist and Head of Department

Consultant Chest Physician
Thai Asthma Council And Association
Thailand

MD, FCCP

Resident
Queen Mary Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr Valerie Chiang is a resident trainee in The Division in Clinical Immunology of Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. She was a member of the Task Force for COVID-19 Vaccine Allergy Safety in Hong Kong, and the first author for Hong Kong’s COVID-19 Vaccine Allergy Safety Consensus Statements published on behalf of the Hong Kong Institute of Allergy. She designed numerous cross-discipline collaborations to assess patients referred for concerns of COVID-19 vaccine allergies. The novel “Hub-and-Spoke” and Nurse Triage Clinic models successfully incorporated non-allergists and allied health into Allergy clinics, allowing efficient and collaborative expansion of allergy services. These structures of training, supervision, and support are currently being expanded into territory-wide drug allergy delabeling initiatives (DADI) and anaphylaxis (MAMI) pathways. Beyond vaccine and drug hypersensitivity, she is also interested in genetics/ genomics in the diagnosis of various immunodeficiency syndromes. With exposure to both laboratory and clinical services of the specialty, she advocates for bench-to-bedside fluency to provide holistic and personalized care for all immunology and allergy patients.

Assistant Professor
Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
Thailand

Qualification & Education:
M.D. from Mahidol University (Ramathibodi Hospital), Thailand
Thai Board of Medicine from Chiangmai University, Thailand
Thai Board of Allergy and Clinical Immunology from Mahidol University (Ramathibodi Hospital), Thailand
Observation, Desensitization program at Allergy Department, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Harvard Affiliation), Boston, USA
Certificate, Anesthesia and Allergy from Montpellier 1 University (Arnaude de Villeneuve Hospital), France

Expertise & Interests:
Drug testing, challenge and desensitization
severe cutaneous adverse reactions, pharmacogenetics and anti-tuberculosis drug hypersensitivity
Clinical allergy: allergic rhinitis, asthma, severe asthma, urticaria, anaphylaxis
Immunotherapy

Associate Professor Of Pediatrics And Medicine
Acaai
United States

Dr. Bingemann is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine in the Divisions of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology and Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the University of Rochester. She is the Program Director for the Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Program. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Allergy and Immunology. She serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology and ACGME review committee for allergy and immunology. Her research focuses on IgE- and non-IgE-mediated food allergy, physician well-being and anaphylaxis. She has publications in these and other areas.

Dr. Bingemann is a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI), American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She Co-chairs both the Psychosocial Impact of Food Allergy and Food Allergy in Schools workgroups. She is the Chair of the Anaphylaxis Committee of the AAAAI. She also serves on the Board of Regents of the ACAAI.

Senior Consutant
Tan Tock Seng Hospital Singapore
Singapore

Dr Tan Sze-Chin is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He is also current honorary secretary of the Section of Clinical Immunologists and Allergists under the College of Physicians Singapore.

Director of The Pediatric Allergy Clinic And Center For Food Allergy Research, Edmond's and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital
Clinical Immunology, Angioedema And Allergy Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Israel

Mona I Kidon, is the Director of the Pediatric Allergy Clinic and the Food Allergy Research Center at the Safra Children’s Hospital. A member of the Clinical Immunology, Angioedema and Allergy Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel. Affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy and Clinical immunology. Her dual main research interest have focused on Drug Hypersensitivity and Food Allergy in Children. Selected Recent Citations:

1. Yahia SH, Machnes-Maayan D, Frizinsky S, Maoz-Segal R, Offenganden I, Kenett RS, et al. Oral Immunotherapy for Children with a High Threshold Peanut Allergy. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2022.
2. Shavit R, Maoz-Segal R, Offengenden I, Yahia SH, Maayan DM, Lifshitz Y, et al. Assessment of Immediate Allergic Reactions After Immunization With the Pfizer BNT162b2 Vaccine Using Intradermal Skin Testing With the COVID-19 Vaccines. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2022.
3. Kidon MI, Yahia SH, Machnes-Maayan D, Levy Y, Frizinsky S, Maoz-Segal R, et al. Diagnosis of Peanut Allergy in Preschool Children: The Impact of Skin Testing With a Novel Composition of Peanuts. Front Pediatr. 2021;9:739224.
4. Blanca-Lopez N, Atanaskovic-Markovic M, Gomes ER, Kidon M, Kuyucu S, Mori F, et al. An EAACI Task Force report on allergy to beta-lactams in children: Clinical entities and diagnostic procedures. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2021.
5. Levy-Mendelovich S, Livnat T, Barg AA, Kidon M, Brutman-Barazani T, Kenet G. Allergy and inhibitors in hemophilia - a rare complication with potential novel solutions. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2020;80:102370.
6. Torres MJ, Adkinson NF, Jr., Caubet JC, Khan DA, Kidon MI, Mendelson L, et al. Controversies in Drug Allergy: Beta-Lactam Hypersensitivity Testing. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2019;7(1):40-5.
7. Gotesdyner L, Zeldin Y, Machnes Maayan D, Efron A, Stauber T, Maoz Segal R, et al. A structured graduated protocol with heat denatured eggs in the treatment of egg allergy. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2019.

Email: Mona.Kidon@sheba.health.gov.il

Division Chief (Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology), Clinical Assistant Professor
The University Of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Dr Philip Li is a Specialist in Immunology & Allergy and Clinical Assistant Professor of the University of Hong Kong. He currently serves as Chief of the Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology of the Department of Medicine. He is the Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Allergy and a Board Director of the Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology.

Dr Li established Hong Kong’s first specialist training centre in Immunology & Allergy and leads the territory-wide Hong Kong Drug Allergy Delabelling Initiative (HK-DADI). Dr Li also heads the Immunology & Allergy services of the Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster, which has been accredited as both an Urticaria and Angioedema Centre of Reference and Excellence (UCARE and ACARE). For his outstanding clinical contributions, he received the Chief Executive’s Commendation for Public Service and HKUMed Clinical Service Excellence Award in 2022.

Dr Li has special interests in anaphylaxis, drug hypersensitivity and immunodeficiency. He has led and authored many of the region’s Immunology & Allergy guidelines, including consensus statements on anaphylaxis, penicillin allergy and COVID19 vaccine allergy safety. He has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles in the fields of allergy, immunology and autoimmunity; and serves on the Editorial Boards of Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Allergy, Asia Pacific Allergy and Journal of Clinical Rheumatology and Immunology.

Chairperson: Center Of Research Excellence In Allergy & Immunology
Mahidol University,
Thailand

He currently is an Associate Professor and Chief of Center of Research Excellence in Allergy & Immunology of Faculty of Medicine. He also serves as Assistant President in Research and Academic Affairs, Mahidol University. He was elected to be a board member of the International Society of Infection and Allergy of the Nose (ISIAN) since 2016. His special interests are: allergen immunotherapy, nasal inflammation, minimally invasive rhinologic procedures, mucosal immunity of nose & paranasal sinuses and pathophysiology of rhinosinusitis.

MD, Ph.D, FRCP, FAAAAI
Immediate Past President, APAAACI,
Executive Director, APAAACI
Dept. of Pediatrics
Nippon Medical School
Tokyo, Japan

Principal Scientist
The University Of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Mukesh is a principal scientist at PhrmaSec Limited, a spin-off company from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Mukesh current research stems from his passion for understanding the role of immune cells in numerous diseases and developing innovative translational solutions. Currently Mukesh is leading a project on investigating the effect of Mas-Related G Protein-Coupled Receptor-X2 (MRGPRX2) modulation (via agonists and antagonists) in Atopic Dermatitis (AD), chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) and itch.

With eight years of global research experience, Mukesh has managed numerous collaborative pre-clinical and clinical research projects, resulting in 1 US/Hong Kong/China patent and 17 accepted publications in immunology, pre-clinical drug discovery and development.

Lecturer
School Of Medicine, Mongolian National University Of Medical Sciences
Mongolia

Education & degree:
1992 Diploma of Medical Doctor, National Medical University of Mongolia
1994 Master degree in Medicine, National Medical University of Mongolia
1999 Ph.D degree in Medicine, National Medical University of Mongolia
2012 Professor, Mongolia National University of Medical Sciences

Specialization:
1997 Specialist in Allergology, UB Mongolia
1997 Fellowship in clinical immunology/allergy, Yonsei University Seoul, Korea
2000 Fellowship in Clinical Allergology, Turku University, Finland
2005 Fellowship in Clinical Allergology, NTHSC, Texas, USA

Work experiences:
1992-2003 Lecturer, National Medical University of Mongolia
2003-2005 Dean, School of Biomedicine, Health Sciences University of Mongolia,
2005-2012 Head, Department of Pathophisiology, School of Biomedicine, HSUM
2013-2019 Dean, School of Medicine, Health Sciences University of Mongolia
2019-2020 Vice president, First Central Hospital of Mongolia.
2020- Professor, Department of Pulmonology & Allergology

Professional Activity:
Since 2010 Head, Professional subcommittee of Immunology and Allergology, Ministry of Health, Mongolia
Since 2012 General specialist of Allergy, Ministry of Health, Mongolia

Research interests:

• Epidemiology of allergies, pathophysiology and mechanisms of asthma and allergy, allergens

Other Experiences and Professional Memberships
Since 1992 Member of Mongolian Society of Physiologists
Since 2002 President of Mongolian Society of Allergology
Since 2002 Member of Asia Pacific Association of Allergy Asthma & Clinical Immunology
Since 2004 Member of European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Since 2005 International Member, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
Since 2007 Member of the House of Delegates of the World Allergy Organization
Since 2011 President of Physiological Foundation
Since 2011 Editorial member of the Asia Pacific Allergy journal of the Asia Pacific Association of Allergy Asthma & Clinical Immunology
Since 2015 Associate editor of the Central Asian Journal of Medical Sciences

Head Of Clinical Allergy/immunology
Monash Health
Australia

Sara Barnes is a clinical allergist/immunologist and general physician with a passion for exploring service delivery and care models. She has leads a unit which provides a State Venom allergy service as well as being one of the major sites to assist with reviewing people with vaccine allergy.

Professor
Thammasat University
Thailand

Professor Orapan is the President of Thai Asthma Council. The positions in Thammasat university are Director of Centre of Excellence for Allergy and Lifestyle & wellness medical centre. She also the Head of Medicinal Herb Research Unit for Asthma. She has almost 50 research publications, 5 textbooks (1 international textbook) and 6 patents. She developed 3 innovations for asthmatic patients and making the network for asthma care. She received 3 innovations awards from Gevena, Korea and Taiwan International Invention Fair. Her research interests focus on the novel treatment of asthma and allergic diseases. Nowadays she developed social media and the application platform for asthma and allergy care.

Assistant Professor
Center of Excellence of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Division of Allergy, Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Fac
Thailand

Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Head, Center of Excellence for Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Group Leader, Clinical Immunology Interest Group, Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Society of Thailand

Chair, Education and Training Working Party, Asia Pacific Society for Immunodeficiencies

Special Clinical And Research Consultant
National Hospital Organization Mie National Hospital
Japan

Dr. Takao Fujisawa is now the director emeritus and Special Research and Clinical Consultant at Mie National Hospital, Japan. He received clinical training in Pediatrics and Allergy at Mie University hospital and Mie National Hospital, and basic research training in Immunology at Mayo Clinic under supervision of professor Gerald J. Gleich, in the field of eosinophil biology. He has been very active in clinical practice in allergy and pediatrics and clinical research in asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergy, and atopic dermatitis. He is interested in the role of eosinophils in the pathogenesis of allergic diseases, biomarkers of atopic dermatitis, asthma, and food allergy, and the development of novel immunotherapy for food allergy.

He has received a number of research funds and currently serves as the principal investigator of several research groups funded by Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), and Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (ERCA).

He served as a member of the Board of Directors of APAAACI from 2010 to 2022, as Treasurer from 2010 to 2018, and as First Vice President from 2018 – 2022.

He also served as the president of the Japanese Society of Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JSPACI) from 2014-2021.

The Chinese University Of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Leung is a professor in Department of Paediatrics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a visiting professor in the Central South University in mainland. He is Immediate Past President of Hong Kong Society for Paediatric Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His main research interests include natural history, novel diagnostics and host-microbe interactions for allergic diseases. He published more than 400 peer-reviewed journal articles and won many research awards in international conferences, and was nominated to receive the Research Excellence in Allergic Diseases Award by the Hong Kong Institute of Allergy in 2021. Professor Leung supervised eight post-doctoral fellows, nine PhD students and 23 master students.

Senior Consultant
Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital
Singapore

Dr Liew is the Medical Director of Paediatric Allergy Immunology Rheumatology Centre, and has been in private practice for the past decade. He is the current President of Allergy Clinical Immunology Society (Singapore), and Executive Board member of Asia Pacific Society for Primary Immunodeficiency. He is the pioneer paediatric immunologist in KK Hospital and continues to be a Visiting Senior Consultant to KKH Immunology service.

Senior Consultant Dermatologist
National Skin Centre
Singapore

Yik Weng is a Senior Consultant Dermatologist and Clinician Scientist at the National Skin Centre (NSC) with strong clinical and research interests in atopic dermatitis (AD), psoriasis, dermato-epidemiology and disease outcomes research. He is currently the deputy head of the NSC Research Division and head of Eczema clinic, NSC. He has recently completed his PhD in 2021 at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore to study disease prevalence and risk factors associations of atopic dermatitis in a general adult population cohort. He is active in various types of research in AD including population-based cohort and disease outcomes studies, clinical trials, basic and translational AD research on omics, skin microbiome and skin bioimaging.

Consultant
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Singapore

Dr Lim Xin Rong is a consultant in the department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology (RAI) at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Singapore. Dr Lim runs the Adult Immunodeficiency service at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and leads the genetic testing and counselling collaborative service for TTSH RAI. She is also the co-deputy head of service of the TTSH Clinical Immunology Lab.

She is an executive member of the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Society (Singapore), member of the Junior Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI), member of the Singapore Society of Rheumatology and Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.

Her research interests includes anaphylaxis, drug hypersensitivity and immunodeficiency.

Visiting Consultant
National University Hospital
Singapore

Youjia is a visiting consultant in the division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, NUH Paediatrics. She is passionate about immunology and vaccines, and is currently pursuing a PhD in vaccine immunology in Duke-NUS Medical School. She is a co-investigator on both the Gestational Immunity for Transfer (GIFT) study, which focuses on SARS-CoV-2 immunity transferred from mother to baby during pregnancy and breast-feeding, and the MARkers of Vaccine Efficacy and Longevity in SARS-CoV-2 (MARVELS) study, which investigates vaccine-induced immunity in healthy and immunocompromised cohorts of Singaporean children.

Assistant Professor
The Chinese University Of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Dr. Agnes Leung is a Paediatric Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases fellow, currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr Leung is an active clinician, educator, and researcher. The goal of her current research is to analyze the patterns, causes, and effects of food allergy in hope to provide effective preventive methods and safe and novel treatment strategies for patients with food allergies. Her team is interested in novel biomarkers and immunotherapy for food allergy, clinical phenotyping and molecular characterization of seafood allergens, and the study of exposome in allergic diseases’ risk and control.

She is the associate editor of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (PAI) and currently a Junior Committee lead of the Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI), and an active committee member of APAPARI and World Allergy Organization (WAO).

Consultant Clinical Immunologist & Allergist And Consultant Paediatrician
Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur & Sunway University
Malaysia

Dr Amir Hamzah is a Consultant Clinical Immunologist/Allergist and Paediatrician at the Allergy & Immunology Centre, Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur, and Adjunct Professor at the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI). He has special interest in planetary health, inborn errors of immunity (IEI) and chronic urticaria. He is actively involved in supporting patients with IEI (primary immunodeficiencies) and is the Chairman of the Medical Advisory Panel for the Malaysian Patient Organisation for Immunodeficiencies (MyPOPI).

Assistant Professor
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh and Research
India

Dr. Ankur Kumar Jindal is Assistant Professor of Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India since 2018.

He is the Head of Angioedema Center of Reference and Excellence (GA2LEN/ HAEi ACARE). He is the Founder member and General Secretary, Hereditary Angioedema Society of India (2021-2025) and APSID Junior Members Working Party country representative from India (2020 – 2024). He is also the country representative for European Society for Immunodeficiencies from India (2022-2024).

He has authored more than 170 publications in peer-reviewed journals and more than 15 book chapters. He is the guest editor and reviewer for several journals.

His research areas of interest include Hereditary Angioedema, Primary Antibody Deficiency, Kawasaki disease, Scleroderma and Uveitis.

Professor
University Of Colorado
United States

Dr. Venter is a Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Allergy/Immunology at the Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, where she is conducting research in allergy prevention and working with children with food allergies. She is the past chair of the International Network of Dietitians and Nutritionists in Allergy, and a member of the American Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (AAAAI), American College of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (ACAAI), European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI). Dr. Venter is a senior advisor to Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE). She is a registered dietitian in the United Kingdom and United States. She has had publications in international journals, book chapters and edited a book on Food Hypersensitivity. She moved from the UK in 2015 where she had been performing research into allergy prevention and prevention.

She was a member of the EAACI and AAAAI food allergy guidelines on Allergy Prevention and the EAACI guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy guidelines., the NICE (UK) food allergy guidelines and the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Peanut Allergy Prevention Guidelines. Dr. Venter is currently the chair of the EAACI work group on Immunomodulation and nutrition.

Pediatrician/ Allergist & Clinical Immunologist
Philippines Society Of Allergy Asthma And Immunology (PSAAI)
Philippines

Pediatric Diplomate (member of the Pediatric Society of the Philippines)

Allergy & Immunology Diplomate (member of the Philippine Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology)

Treasurer
ACAAI
United States

Dr. Zachary is a graduate of Howard University College of Medicine class of 1986. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota Hospital Systems in 1989. She was an attending physician in the division of Allergy & Immunology at Northwestern University and Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago Illinois for eight years after completing her fellowship training there in Allergy & Immunology in 1991. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI), the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI), the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Contact Dermatitis Society (ACDS). She serves as a member of the Committee on the Under Served for the AAAAI. She is past Chair of the Allergy Section for the National Medical Association. She has served as a member of the Medicaire Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee. She is a member of the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice as appointed by Governor Walsh. As a member of the ACAAI Dr. Zachary has served on the appointments committee, membership recruitment committee, annual meeting site selection committee, government relations committee, is the current chair of the diversity task force and is the current Treasurer

Paediatrician
Mt Elizabeth Medical Hospital
Singapore

Dr. Chiang Wen Chin obtained her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the Nottingham University, United Kingdom. She completed her Paediatric training in Bristol and Great Ormond Street, United Kingdom. She obtained her specialist qualifications of Master of Medicine in Paediatrics and membership to the Royal College of Physicians (United Kingdom). Dr Chiang underwent advanced training in Paediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Duke University, USA.

Dr Chiang is a visiting Consultant of the Department of Paediatric Medicine KK Women’s and Children’s hospital. She is Adjunct Associate Professor of Duke NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore.

Professor
Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
Thailand

Chonlaphat Sukasem is a Professor in Clinical Pathology and Pharmacogenomics at the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand. He is Head of Division of Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine and also serves as Chief of Laboratory for Pharmacogenomics, Somdech Phra Debaratana Medical Center (SDMC) since 2011. Prof. Sukasem is the Founder member and appointed as a Secretariat of Southeast Asian Pharmacogenomics Association (SEAPHARM). He has been appointed as Senior Lecturer, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Institution of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool.

He has a background in pharmacological science and pharmacogenomics. Professor Sukasem has also published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmacogenomics. His research has focused on pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, clinical pharmacology and drug safety. His work has seen him at the forefront of translational pharmacogenomics researches into clinical practices including pharmacogenetic testing, TPMT enzyme activity and therapeutic drug monitoring for the precision medicine. He has contributed the international guidelines of The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium for (1) HLA Genotype and Use of Carbamazepine and Oxcarbazepine and (2) CYP2B6 and Efavirenz-containing Antiretroviral Therapy.

Professor Of Pediatrics, Section Head
Children's Hospital Colorado
United States

Dr. David Fleischer completed his undergraduate training at the University of Pennsylvania, medical degree training at Emory University School of Medicine, and both Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Fellowship training at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Fleischer is currently the Section Head of Allergy & Immunology at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO) and a Professor of Pediatrics at CHCO and the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Allergy and Immunology Center at CHCO.

Dr. Fleischer’s primary clinical interest is food allergy. His research has focused on the natural history of food allergy and novel treatments for food allergy, including oral, sublingual, and epicutaneous immunotherapies. Dr. Fleischer has authored many original, peer-reviewed articles, review articles, and book chapters on food allergy.

Associate Professor
University Medical Center Utrecht
Netherlands

Edward Knol is a biomedical scientist and immunologist in the departments of Immunology and Dermatology/Allergology at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He obtained his PhD training at the University of Amsterdam and had a postdoc position at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. His scientific research focuses on allergic diseases, in particularly eczema and food allergy. The research focusses on 1) improved insights in pathomechanisms, 2) explore new treatment options, 3) improve current diagnostics and establish new diagnostics platforms. He is heading the Platform Immune Monitoring in the UMC Utrecht. In his career Edward Knol discovered CD63 as the basophil activation marker, described the role of peanut allergen Ara h 2 and described A20/TNFAIP3 dysregulation in eczema. He is involved in several (inter)national collaborations.

Within the University Medical Center he also holds a teaching position and has chaired the education committee of the University Utrecht graduate school Immunity and Infection (60 master and 180 PhD students). He is coordinator and examiner of: 1) Course Clinical Immunology for 3rd years students Biomedical Sciences and 2) Course Immune Therapy for 2nd years student Medicine.

At the international level Edward Knol has organised 3 European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Winter schools and was the chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the EAACI annual meetings in 2014-2016 and held the position of Vice President Congresses at EAACI from June 2019 till February 2022.

Specialties: Immunology, Allergy, Food Allergy, Atopic Dermatitis, Basophilic granulocytes, T lymphocytes, allergy diagnostic tests, basophil activation test

Publications: Scopus ID 7007059464 , 57208456449

Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Korea

Dong-Young KIM, M.D., Ph.D.

Director of Resident Training Committee

Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (KORL-HNS)

Chair of Allergy and Immunology Study Group

Korean Rhinologic Society (KRS)

Director of Technical Committee

Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology (KAAACI)

Board Member

Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI)

Senior Consultant
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Singapore

Past President
Asian Hospital and Medical Center
Philippines

Name: Marysia P. Tiongco-Recto, M.D. FPPS, FPSAAI Section of Allergy and Immunology,Department of Pediatrics. UP-PGH

Contact number : 0918-903-6726 Email : marysiatrecto@yahoo.com

Residency: University of the Philippines –Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) Department of Pediatrics (1996)

Fellowship: Section of Adult and Pediatric Allergy and Immunology U.P.-PGH Medical Center (1998)

Postgraduate Training: Section of Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology, University of Padova Italy ( 2003)

Current Positions

• Professor
• Section of Adult and Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
• University of the Philippines
• Philippine General Hospital

• Section Head and Active Staff
• Section of Allergy and immunology
• Department of Pediatrics
• Asian Hospital and Medical Center

• Associate Active Staff
• Section of Allergy and Immunology
• Department of Pediatrics
• Makati Medical Center

• Past President
• Philippine Society of Allergy Asthma and Immunology

• Member, European Academy of Allergy and clinical Immunology
• Member, Asia Pacific Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical immunology
• Affiliate member, American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Membership

• Fellow, Philippine Pediatric Society
• Fellow, Philippine Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Director And Chair
Wroclaw Medical University, All-med Medical Research Institute
Poland

Marek Jutel is currently a professor of allergy, clinical immunology, and internal medicine, and Head of the Department and Clinical Immunology at the Wroclaw Medical University, and Director of ALL-MED Medical Research Institute in Wroclaw, Poland. He is immediate Past President of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) 2019-2022. Currently, he is a member Board of Officers Member as Past President. He keeps the governmental position as the Allergy Consultant in-chief for the Lower Silesia Region. He is Deputy-Editor of the Journal Allergy and associate Editor of Clinical and Translational Allergy and a member of the editorial boards of 10 other journals. Prof. Jutel’s research has been focused on immune tolerance mechanisms, especially in the model of allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT). He is also constantly involved in clinical research on immunotherapy, biologics, and pharmacotherapy in allergic diseases, asthma, and COPD. He pioneered the use of recombinant allergens in the diagnosis and treatment of allergic diseases. He was the principal investigator in more than 50 clinical trials in allergy, asthma, COPD, and other immune-mediated diseases.

Prof. Jutel has authored more than 300 scientific articles and 50 books and book chapters. He constantly contributes to a large number of guidelines and position papers on the management of allergic and immune-mediated diseases published by EAACI and other scientific organizations.

Director, Allergy Translation, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Group Leader, Allergy Immunology Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Paediatric Immunologist Allergist, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
Professorial Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia
Consultant Immunopathologist, Dorevitch Pathology
Australia

Prof of Dermatology
Charité
Germany

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Allergology, Berlin, Germany marcus.maurer@charite.de

Professor of Dermatology and Allergy, Co-Director for the Fraunhofer Site for Allergology and Immunology of the Fraunhofer Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP and Executive Director for the Institute of Allergology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.

Prof Maurer is a Dermatologist and Allergologist, and he also trained in experimental pathology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston (1995-1998); Board certification for Dermatology (2000) and Allergology (2003). Assistant Professor at the Allergie-Centrum-Charité at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (2004-2005). Since 2005, full professor at Charité. Prof. Maurer a coordinator of the Global Allergy and Asthma European Networks of urticaria and angioedema centers of reference and excellence, UCARE and ACARE. His areas of clinical interest include angioedema, urticaria, mastocytosis, pruritus, skin infections, and allergic diseases. His research is focused on the biology of mast cells, neuroimmunology, inflammation, innate immunity and tolerance. He has supervised more than 60 clinical trials, phase 1 through 4. Prof. Maurer has contributed to more than 670 publications in peer-reviewed journals (>32.000 citations, H Index 91) and 51 books and book chapters.

Professor Of Medicine, NYU Long Island School Of Medicine
Americal College Of Allergy, Asthma And Immunology
United States

Dr. Luz Fonacier is Professor of Medicine at New York University (NYU)-Long Island School of Medicine. She is Head of Allergy and Training Program Director in NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island. She completed residencies in Dermatology and Internal Medicine, a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology in New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and a fellowship in Dermal Immunology at NYU Medical Center. Dr Fonacier was president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (the first Asian American) and chair of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology (the first to hold both positions simultaneously). She is the recipient of numerous awards and lectureships including the Presidential Award (Felicidal Cua Lim Memorial), Asian Pacific Association of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Edward J. O'Connell Lectureship, ARTrust™ and Anjuli Seth Nayak AAAAI Lectureship, ACAAI John P. McGovern lectureship, ACAAI Jean A. Chapman Memorial Lectureship, ACAAI “Women in Allergy Award” and 1998 Presidential Award of the Asian Pacific Association of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. She is the first honorary Fellow of the Philippine Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Because of her training in dermatology, allergy and immunology, her special interest are the dermatologic manifestations of allergic diseases.

Associate Professor
Allergy Clinic, department of dermatology and allergy, Gentofte Hospital
Denmark

Lene Heise Garvey is a specialist in Anaesthesiology with subspecialisation in Allergology. She is co-founder and Head of the Danish Anaesthesia Allergy Centre, the Danish National Reference Centre for investigation of perioperative hypersensitivity. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and a consultant in the Allergy Clinic, Gentofte Hospital, Denmark. She is vice chair of the Danish Society of Allergology and secretary of the EAACI Drug Allergy Interest Group.

Research interests include all aspects of anaphylaxis and perioperative hypersensitivity, drug allergy in general, and allergy to chlorhexidine, polyethylene glycol and other rare or hidden allergens.

Assistant Professor
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Taiwan

I am currently an assistant professor at Chang Gung Memorial Hosptial and Chang Gung Universty. My research focus is at food allergy and microbiome, particularly non-IgE-mediated food allergy.

Professor
Kyoto University
Japan

Dr. Kabashima graduated from Kyoto University in 1996 and further honed his medical and dermatology skills through training at the US Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Kyoto University Hospital, and the University of Washington Medical Center. He initiated his research on bioactive lipid mediators at Kyoto University and received his PhD there. Subsequently, he pursued his studies at UCSF and the University of Occupational and Environmental Health.

Currently, Dr. Kabashima holds several prominent positions, including Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Senior Principal Investigator at A*STAR (Singapore), and Visiting Consultant at the National Skin Centre (Singapore). He also serves as the President of the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology.

His research focuses on understanding the underlying mechanisms of inflammatory skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, and psoriasis, as well as exploring 3D visualization of the skin using two-photon microscopy and drug development.

Senior Consultant
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Singapore

Dr Justina Tan is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She is a member of the Singapore Society of Rheumatology and Allergy and Clinical Immunology Society of Singapore. She works closely with the Tan Tock Seng Hospital's Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee and Pharmacists in the development of inpatient beta-lactam challenge protocol and penicillin delabelling.

Professor Of Allergy And Clinical Immunology
Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania
Romania

Ioana Agache is Professor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania and Past President of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) 2017-2019. She is currently the Chair of the EAACI Research and Outreach Committee

Her research in the field of Asthma and Allergy and Clinical Immunology focused on asthma phenotypes and endotypes, biomarkers, immune modulation, AI/machine-learning and integrated management of allergic diseases, with a special focus on exposomics and One Health.

Professor
Seoul National University Hospital
South Korea

Professor, MD, PhD

Section Chief of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Seoul National University Hospital

Director, the Institute of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University

Senior Consultant
NUS-NUH
Singapore

Hugo PS Van Bever was born in Belgium, and joined the National University Singapore as Professor, Senior Consultant, and Head of Paediatric Allergy and Immunology the Department of Paediatrics in June 2002. From 2019 till May 2021, he was the President of APAPARI. He is also board member of APAACI and committee member of the Immunotherapy Working Group of WAO. He has published more than 360 papers in national and international journals. His current research is focused on eczema, food allergy, allergic rhinitis, sublingual immunotherapy, and primary prevention of allergy. He runs clinics in NUH, focused on pediatric allergy, especially on asthma, allergic rhinitis, eczema, and food allergy.

President
Ajou University Medical Center
Korea

Dr. Hae-Sim Park is the Professor of the Department of Allergy & Clinical Immunology at Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea. She is the Director of Research-driven Hospital Project and the president of Ajou University Medical Center.

In clinical science, she has been recognized as a top-ranked allergy specialist in Korea and devoted as national and regional principal investigators in early clinical trials, and real-world studies for asthma and allergy based on clinical big data. Regarding translational research activities, she has concentrated on three fields, 1) Identification of biomarkers for severe asthma and NSAID hypersensitivity, 2) the pathogenic mechanisms of occupational asthma and rhinitis, 3) Identification of new allergens and development of immunomodulators, including biologics for severe asthma. She has published more than 500 peer-reviewed articles in fields of biomarker identification in asthma and allergic disease, asthma subtype and precision medicine, efficacy of allergen immunotherapy, IVIG and biologics, and management issues of asthma and elderly asthma. She is working as a leading author of major textbooks including Middleton’,s textbook of allergy, and has been invited numerous times to lecture before major international academic meetings.

She has served on reviewers/editors of leading allergy journals and had devoted as an editor-in-chief of Allergy Asthma Immunol Research for 7 years (2014-2020) to promote this journal to international scale.