October 2019 Newsletter

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Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research

October 2019 Newsletter

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We hope you all have been having a wonderful fall and enjoying your Halloween celebrations! If you have not yet

gone trick-or-treating, read about FARE's Teal Pumpkin Project here and in the Chicago Tribune for some tips for a

fun, spooky, and safe Halloween with food allergies!

Research News

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Manuscripts accepted for publication!

JAMA Pediatrics

Title: Effectiveness of Clinical Decision Support Tools on Pediatrician Adherence to Peanut Allergy Prevention Guidelines Authors: Lucy A. Bilaver, Monika N. Martusiewicz, Jialing Jiang, Ruchi S. Gupta

This study examines the effectiveness of a pediatrician-designed CDS tool and training on pediatrician adherence to the guidelines. Read the results here, or email cfaar@northwestern.edu for the article!

Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology

Title: Understanding Food Allergy Education Needs in Early Childhood Schools Authors: Sarah Valaika, Avneet Chadha, Jamie Fierstein, Ruchi Gupta

This study aimed to assess the need for food allergy education among early childhood professionals. Data from the 479 surveyed suggests EC professionals frequently witness food-induced allergic reactions in young children and may be required to administer epinephrine even though they feel unprepared. Overall, the study identified the need to improve responses to FA-related emergencies with respect to both treatment and protocol documentation in the early childhood setting.

Check back next month for the link to the published article!

To catch up on all of our team's most recent publications, click here!

Welcome to the team!

We are so excited to welcome three new members to the CFAAR team. Learn about them below!

Shannon Stanfill

Shannon joins the Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research from Northwestern's Division of

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Stroke and Neurocritical Care. She's leading the iREACH study as research project manager. With two decades of experience spanning the realms of business and marketing, project management, and research management, she has helped build a stroke research program, managed industry sponsored clinical trials, worked on NIH sponsored longitudinal family studies, helped design an oxytocin-autism study, and managed animal studies. Her passion for healthcare and unyielding curiosity influences her career choices as well as her free time. She travels as much as time will allow, has lived in China, and worked in Uganda while finishing her Master of Global Health from Northwestern University. Shannon is a wife, a mother to twin adopted daughters and a menagerie of pets.

Dannielle Brown

Dannielle graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health and subsequently went on to get her Master of Health Science in Mental Health Studies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dannielle recently completed her first year of Medical School at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and is excited about taking this year to do research with the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research. While on the team, she'll be supporting the team's FORWARD, CPS Student Health Leaders, and Food Equality Initiative studies.

Frances Ho

Frances is an undergraduate research assistant for CFAAR. She is from Redwood City, California and is a senior at Northwestern majoring in Biological Sciences and minoring in Science and Human Culture. She will be matriculating to Feinberg in Fall 2020. Frances joined our team because she wants to pursue pediatrics and learned about large prevalence and impact of allergies on families. At CFAAR, Frances has been working on developing a quality of life survey for Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) patients. She has also been helping with the Student Health Leaders workshop, designed to empower CPS students to be health advocates in their own communities.

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To meet the rest of the CFAAR team, click here!

Recent Events

Some of the CFAAR team members headed to Florence, Italy this month to present our research and meet with our allergy partners from all around the globe!

Pictured: Dr. Gupta, Jialing Jiang, and Christopher Warren from the CFAAR team

Accepted abstracts and invited presentations

Title: Prevalence of Food Allergy and Atopic Conditions among First-Generation Immigrant Children in the United States

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Authors: Jialing Jiang, Chitra Dinakar, Jamie Fierstein, Opal Gupta, Ruchi Gupta

Title: The United States Population-level Burden of Living with Pediatric Food Allergy Presenting Author: Christopher Warren

Title: Pediatric Egg Allergy--A US population-based crosssectional prevalence survey Presenting Author: Christopher Warren

Title: Allergen immunotherapy: what are the cost benefits? Chairs: Ruchi Gupta & Susanne Halken

Partners in Action Day: Florence, Italy- October 16, 2019

Food Allergy Around the World ?Prevalence, Issues and Priorities Presenting: Ruchi Gupta

Dr. Gupta was recently invited to the Food Equality Initiative's 5th Anniversary Celebration. As the Keynote Speaker, she spoke about the recent data on the prevalence of food allergies in the United States, the current health disparities in food allergy, and why the work of the Food Equality Initiative is so important in providing access to safe foods for families. To learn more about their work, visit

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Dr. Gupta pictured with Emily Brown, the founder and CEO of the Food Equality Initiative, and her team, learning about the food pantry system FEI uses to stock safe

foods for those with food allergy and celiac disease.

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5th Annual Chicagoland Women in Science Mixer

On October 23rd, Dr. Gupta was invited to join a panel discussion hosted by the Field Museum Women in Science. It was an amazing opportunity for connection and collaboration among women in the sciences of all ages and backgrounds. To learn more about their initiatives and how to get involved, visit here.

Upcoming Conferences

CONTAINS: COURAGE? FARE SUMMIT 2019

November 1-3, 2019, Washington, DC

The Contains: Courage? FARE Summit will bring together 1,000 members of the food allergy community. Teens and adults can come to learn, find support, and make new friendships.

Dr. Gupta will be attending to present "Innovation on the Cutting Edge: Advances in Research and Strategy", as well as an "Ask the Researcher" session, where she will be covering the current state of research, where the future of research lies, and will be taking questions from the audience!

We hope to see you there!

Houston, TX November 7th-11th, 2019

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The CFAAR team is gearing up for the ACAAI conference in just a few short weeks! This year, they'll be presenting four abstracts, and Dr. Gupta will be giving three presentations on food allergy health disparities, the epidemiology of food allergy, and how to prepare for school with FA. If you'll be in attendance this year, we hope to see you there!

4 Accepted Abstracts:

Differences in Food Allergy Knowledge Between Black And White Parents in the FORWARD Study

FORWARD study reports almost 100 % of children with food allergies had filled epinephrine prescriptions

Food Allergy Resolution and Subsequent Introduction among Black and White Children in the FORWARD Study

The Psychosocial Burden of Food Allergy among US Adults: A Population-based Survey

3 Presentations:

Does Food Allergy Disproportionately Affect Particular Races or Ethnicities? Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH

Hot Topics in Pediatrics: Epidemiology Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH

The Parent Is the Teacher: How to Help Parents Prepare for Transitioning Their Child to School Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH

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