Managing Food Allergies

Dr. Scott Sicherer will speak about managing Food Allergy on Monday Jan 25th from 7 to 9 pm in Stamford at The King School, 1450 Newfield Ave., Stamford. Please join us.

The event is sponsored in part by FARE Food Allergy Research and Education www.foodallergy.org

Biography

Scott H. Sicherer, MD is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology and Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics. He is Medical Director of the Clinical Research Center, a component of Conduits-the Institutes for Translational Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Sicherer is a clinician and clinical researcher in the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai. His clinical research interests, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and Food Allergy Research and Education include: the clinical manifestations of food allergy, allergic diseases caused by specific foods such as peanuts, tree nuts, seafood and milk, the natural history of food allergy, environmental risk factors for food allergy, diagnostic issues in food allergy, epidemiology of food allergy, psychosocial issues associated with food allergies, the genetic epidemiology of food allergy, and the development of educational materials about food allergy aimed toward health care providers and parents.