This event is now in its sixth successful year and is aimed at health professionals who regularly see children with food allergy in their day to day practice.  We are excited to welcome some of the UK’s leading experts as well as internationally acclaimed allergists to deliver the interesting, up-to-date and interactive lectures.

Please join us! This event remains free of charge through the support of the Allergy Academy sponsors:  Nutricia, Danone Baby Nutrition, Phadia, ALK-Abello, Stallergenes, Allergy Therapeutics, Novartis, Sainsbury’s, Lactofree, Meda-Pharma and Mead-Johnson.

The Allergy Academy is excited to confirm Dr Philippe Eigenmann as our Danone Baby Nutrition Keynote Lecturer at the 6th Annual Food Allergy Study Day on Thursday 26th April 2012.  Danone are kindly sponsoring this lecture about the Future of Food Allergy enabling us to invite this highly acclaimed, world renowned allergist to come and talk to us. 

Dr Eigenmann is a pediatrician and allergist trained in Switzerland and in the USA (Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore). He is currently head of Pediatric Allergy at the University Hospital of Geneva Switzerland. His main focus of research is food allergy with several ongoing studies, both clinical and in the laboratory. He is currently section editor in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology and in the Editorial Board of Allergy. In addition to his scientific activity, he has been the chair of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) section on Pediatrics from 2003 to 2007, and is member of the EAACI Executive Committee (2009-2011 term). Dr Eigenmann is chair of the EAACI annual meeting 2012 in Geneva. He is also secretary of the EAACI-Clemens von Pirquet Foundation, a European foundation promoting research and education in pediatric allergy and immunology. Within the activity of the Foundation, he coordinates iPAC, the international pediatric allergy and asthma consortium. He is also the president of the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology for the period 2011-2013.

Registration for this event is now closed due to huge demand.  We are now operating a waiting list.

Please click here to be placed on the waiting list.