Allergy Partners 2021 Scientific Meeting: Issues in the Tissues: Allergic Disease of the Skin and Gut
Allergy Partners Summer 2021 Scientific Meeting: Issues in the Tissues: Allergic Diseases of the Skin and Gut Topics will include
- How to recognize, diagnose, and manage FPIES
- What are the clinical indicators and diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis and what are the current and emerging therapeutic options?
- What is the role of foods in conditions patients commonly attribute to food allergy?
- How can the allergist most effectively utilize patch testing in a busy practice?
- How to recognize the clinical signs and symptoms of systemic diseases with dermatologic manifestations?
- What are the clinical features of common rashes seen in the allergist’s office?
Target Audience
- A/I Physicians
- Fellows in Training
- Nurse Practioners
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Pharm D.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:
- Discuss the appropriate evaluation to diagnose FPIES and discuss the various dietary and other treatment options
- Discuss the clinical hallmarks of eosinophilic esophagitis, the appropriate laboratory evaluation to diagnose eosinophilic esophagitis and discuss the various current and emerging treatment options
- Discuss the underlying mechanism by which food contribute to various common ailments and how to best educate patients and families
- Discuss patient selection, patch test selection, patch test interpretation and patient education while developing a successful patch testing program in a practice
- Identify systemic illnesses via recognition of common dermatologic manifestations and associated signs and symptoms
- Identify common dermatologic disorders that are likely to present at the allergist’s office
2021 Allergy Partners Physician Meeting Agenda.pdf
Allergy Partners Summer 2021 Scientific Meeting: Issues in the Tissues: Allergic Diseases of the Skin and Gut
June 26-27, 2021
Wild Dunes Resort
Saturday, June 26th
08:00am—08:45am Opening
Dr. David Brown
08:45am—09:45am FPIES: Review of current guidelines and recent literature
Dr. Sheeba Cherian
09:45am—10:15am Break
10:15am—11:15am Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Diagnosis, management and emerging therapies
Dr. Sean McKnight
11:15am—12:15 pm Chief Complaint: Food Allergy. Or Is It?
A panel discussion of common ailments that may or may not be related to food allergy
Dr. David Fitzhugh, Dr. Ananth Thyagarajan, Dr. Chris Copenhaver
12:15pm—1:00pm Lunch - Speaker
Breakout sessions available exactly every half hour: 1:00pm; 1:30pm; 2:00pm; 2:30pm
30 minute intervals Working with Teams Training Team
30 minute intervals Patch Testing, Hand’s on Demo Wanda Miller, RN & Deanna Lutz
30 minute intervals EMR Tips and Tricks to getting charts completed and meeting MACRA/MIPS Cody Proctor & Jennifer Boldin
30 minute intervals Billing and Coding Updates Mary Kendall
15 minute intervals Allergy Partners Specialty Pharmacy Kelly Short, RPh
1 on 1 meeting Biologics Kellie Deel
Please contact Kellie Deel to preschedule your meeting: kdeel@allergypartners.com
Sunday, June 27st
08:15am—08:30am Opening
Dr. David Brown
08:30am—09:30am Patch Testing: How to Incorporate in Practice and Clinical Pearls
Dr. Qurat Kamili
09:30am—10:00am Break
10:00am—11:00am Severe Dermatologic Disorders
Dr. Bill McCann
11:00am—12:00pm 2019 Allergy Partners Systemic Data
Dr. Bill McCann
For questions related to the topics on this agenda, please contact the following:
Dr. David Brown — President & CEO – dbrown@allergypartners.com
Dr. Bill McCann — Vice President & Chief Medical Officer – bmccann@allergypartners.com
Planning Committee
Michael Calvin, PA
Allergy Partners of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
Relevant relationships: None
Sheeba Cherian, MD
Allergy Partners of North Texas, Dallas, TX
Relevant relationships: None
Joel Hartman, MD
Allergy Partners of the Piedmont, Winston Salem, NC
Relevant relationships: None
Fred Leickly, MD
Allergy Partners of Columbus, Columbus, IN
Relevant relationships: None
William McCann, MD
Allergy Partners, Asheville, NC
Relevant relationships: None
Mitchell Smith, DO
Central Indiana Allergy
Relevant relationships: None
Faculty
David A. Brown, MD FAAAAI
Allergy Partners, PLLC, Asheville, NC
Relevant relationships: None
Sheeba Cherian, MD
Allergy Partners of North Texas, Dallas, TX
Relevant relationships: None
Chris Copenhaver
Allergy Partners of Western North Carolina, Asheville, NC
Relevant relationships: None
David J. Fitzhugh, MD
Allergy Partners of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Relevant relationships: TBD
Qurat Kamili
Allergy Partners of North Texas, Dallas, TX
Relevant relationships: TBD
Fred Leickly, MD
Allergy Partners of Columbus, Columbus, IN
Relevant relationships: None
William McCann, MD
Allergy Partners, Asheville, NC
Relevant relationships: None
Sean McKnight
Allergy Partners, Henderson, NV
Relevant relationships: None
Ananth Thyagarajan
Allergy Partner's Of Springfield, Burke, VA
Relevant relationships: None
Content Reviewers
Anne Russell, MS BSN RN AE-C
Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor, MI
Relevant relationships: None
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