Medical Advisory Board

Medical Advisory Board

United States

Advisory Board Chair: Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Director, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Division
Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital
New York, NY

Sami Bahna, MD
Professor and Chief of Allergy & Immunology
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport
Shreveport, LA

Nancy Bandstra, PhD
Clinical Psychologist
Intensive Feeding Program
Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Grand Rapids, MI

Drew Bird, MD
Director of the Food Allergy Center at Children’s Health
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Ashis Barad, MD
Section Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Medical Center
Temple, TX

Lisa Bartnikas, MD
Attending Physician, Division of Immunology, Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Theresa A. Bingemann, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Terri F. Brown-Whitehorn, MD
Attending Physician with the Division of Allergy, the Center for Pediatric Eosinophilic Disorders and the Integrative Health Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Mirna Chehade, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Director, Mount Sinai Center for Eosinophilic Disorders
Jaffe Food Allergy Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Antonella Cianferoni, MD, PhD
Attending Physician Allergy and Immunology
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Raquel Durban, MS, RD, LDN
Registered Dietitian
Asthma & Allergy Specialists, PA
Charlotte, NC

Lynn Fagerman, PNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Grand Rapids, MI

Todd Green, MD
Director, Food Allergy Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

Matthew Greenhawt, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine
Co-director of the Children’s Hospital Colorado Food Challenge Unit
Aurora, CO

Marion Groetch, MS, RD, CDN
Senior Dietitian, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Brittany (Hofmeister) Scanniello, RD
Functional Nutrition Consultant
Metagenics

George Konstantinou, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology
Mount Sinai Health System
New York, NY

Stephanie Leonard, MD
Director Food Allergy Center
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Specialists of San Diego
San Diego, CA

Jenifer Lightdale, MD
Division Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology
Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, MA

Scott Sicherer, MD
Director of the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Food Allergy Institute
Professor of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology of the Elliot and Roslyn Jaff Food Allergy Institute
Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY

Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD
Stuart Starr Endowed Chair of Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Allergy Section
Division of Allergy-Immunology
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Carina Venter, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Allergy and Immunology at the Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado

Robert Wood, MD
Director of Pediatric Allergy & Immunology
Professor of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, MD

International

International Chair:
Sam Mehr, MBBS, BMedSc, FRACP, FRCPA
Paediatric Allergist Immunologist & Immunopathologist
The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

Katie Allen, MD, PhD
Theme Director of Population Health and Group Leader of Gastro and Food Allergy at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Melbourne, Australia

Kirsten Beyer, MD
Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, University Hospital Charité
Berlin, Germany

Jean-Christoph Caubet, MD
Division of Paediatrics, University of Geneva
Lecturer Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Health System
Geneva, Switzerland

George Du Toit, MBBCh, FRCPCH, D.ALLERGY
Professor of Paediatric Allergy, Kings College London, Evelina London, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
London, England

Alessandro Fiocchi, MD
Director of Allergy at the Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù
Rome, Vatican City, Italy

Purificación González-Delgado, MD, PhD
Associate Professor UMH
Allergy Section
Hospital General Alicante
Alicante, Spain

Kate Grimshaw, PhD, RD, RNutr
Department of Nutrition & Dietetics
Faculty of Medicine
University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom

Jin-Bok Hwang, MD
Department of Pediatrics
Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center
Daegu, Korea

Antonella Muraro, MD, Phd
President of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology
Professor of Food Allergy at the University of Padua
Consultant in Allergies at the Pediatric Department of the University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy

Ichiro Nomura, MD, PhD
National Center for Child Health and Development | NCCHD
Division of Allergy, Department of Allergy and Immunology
Tokyo, Japan

Susan Waserman, MSc, MD, FRCPC
Director, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada