#BSACI 2018: The Prevention and Management of Cow’s Milk Allergy - Looking to the Future

At the British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology Annual Meeting, on Monday 1st October at 1pm, Nutricia Early Life Nutrition will be chairing a symposium on managing Cow’s Milk Allergy.

By Nutricia Early Life Nutrition

Nutricia Early Life Nutrition is hosting a symposium at The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology Annual Meeting, on Monday 1st October, at 1pm.

The symposium, titled ‘The Prevention & Management of Cow’s Milk Allergy — Looking to the Future’, will be chaired by Paediatric Allergist, Dr. Gary Stiefel and features Consultant Paediatrician Dr. Nick Makwana and Dr. Rosan Meyer, a Paediatric Allergy Research Dietitian from Kings College. The presentation will take place at ‘Ludlow 3’ within The Telford International Centre.

About the symposium:

Title: ‘The Prevention & Management of Cow’s Milk Allergy — Looking to the Future’

Time: 13:00–14:00

Date: Monday 1st October

Venue: Ludlow 3, at The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology Annual Meeting, The Telford International Centre.

About the keynote speakers:

Dr. Gary Stiefel

Paediatric Allergist University Hospital of Leicester NHS Trust Future Directions in Food Allergy Management

Since 2012, Gary has been a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, having been trained at St Mary Hospital, London and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust. He completed an Allergy MSc at Imperial College London and now regularly lectures on the food allergy module for the Allergy MSc at University of Southampton. He is currently serving as one of the RCPCH specialist advisory committee members for Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases. Gary is the lead author for the BSACI nut allergy guidelines and is currently embarking on a national BPSU study on FPIES.

Dr. Nick Makwana

Consultant Paediatrician Department of Child Health, Sandwell & West, Birmingham NHS Trust

Dr Makwana graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School and completed his paediatric training within the West Midlands. His interest in allergy started whilst he was a registrar at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. He went on to work at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool and gained an MD from the Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Liverpool. He is currently a consultant at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust and runs the multi-disciplinary paediatric allergy service cross site. He has been highly commended for excellence in customer care and the allergy service has been voted as the most improved under his supervision. The service offers immunotherapy and specific oral tolerance induction to milk and egg. He is one of the authors of the Management of Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy Guideline for BSACI and co-ordinates the Midlands Paediatric Allergy Group.

He is trained as an APLS (Advanced Paediatric Life Support) course director, and trains doctors on the recognition and emergency management of children with life threatening conditions. In addition, he is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics at the University of Birmingham and was previously the Training Programme Director for junior paediatric training in the West Midlands, responsible for the education of 120 paediatric doctors in the region. He is currently the Deputy Head of Academy (3rd Year Undergraduate Lead) and is responsible for the training of 3rd year medical students across the Trust. As Vice Chair on the Examinations Committee for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) he is responsible for setting both national and international examinations in paediatrics.

Dr. Rosan Meyer

Paediatric Allergy Research Dietitian Kings College, London Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College, London UK Visiting Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Rosan completed her degree in Dietetics in South Africa and specialised in paediatric nutrition in the UK. In 2004, she finished her Masters in Paediatric Nutrition and in 2008 her PhD at Imperial College London. She was the principal research dietitian at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children until December 2015, leading a project on the impact of gastrointestinal food allergies on children and their families. In addition, she has a busy paediatric dietetic practice specialising in food allergy in London.

She is currently module leader for the Food Hypersensitivity Module that forms part of the MSc in Allergy at Imperial College London, and is honorary senior lecturer in paediatrics at the same university leading many research projects in food allergy. She has recently also started with the paediatric allergy team at St. Thomas Hospital working as a paediatric allergy research dietitian on the EAT study. She is the chair of the European Section of the International Network for Diet and Allergy, secretary of the Allied Health and Primary Care Interest Group of EAACI and member of several EAACI task forces on food allergy. She has recently started to lecture also at KU Leuven as visiting Professor, on their new MSc on Swallow Disorders.

‘The Prevention & Management of Cow’s Milk Allergy — Looking to the Future’ is taking place at The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology Annual Meeting, which starts on Sunday 30th September and runs until Tuesday 2nd October 2018. It’s being hosted at the Telford International Centre, and Nutricia Early Life Nutrition will be in attendance on stand 16 for the duration.

Head on over to our stand 16 for complimentary coffee and to experience our unique Virtual Reality tour of the gut. For more info on how to attend please visit https://bsacimeeting.org/register/.

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