It’s Food Allergy Awareness Week! The College’s advocacy, partnerships and projects keep food allergy issues in the forefront.
The College partners with patient-focused food allergy organizations to support education and advocacy-based resources for those with food allergies.
In 2024, the College provided funding to the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Connection Team (FAACT) for its mission-based education, outreach and advocacy programs, such as Camp TAG (The Allergy Gang), Global Food Industry & Research Summit, Behavioral Health Program, and Civil Rights Advocacy Program.
Our grants to Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) have helped FARE advance food allergy research and innovations, develop educational opportunities such as FARE’s learning management system (called the Food Allergy Academy) and its Prevention Initiative, and expand outreach within the food allergy community with its Neighborhood Initiative.
The College has member resources you can use to enhance your food allergy knowledge.
Tools, information and education for allergists
View sessions on demand from the 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting on food allergy, including Personalized Pediatric Food Allergy Management, Atopic Dermatitis and Food Allergy Testing: Who Not to Test, and more. If you attended the ACAAI 2024 Annual Meeting – in Boston or via livestream – you can access On Demand sessions at no charge.
Revisit – or listen for the first time – to last month’s webinar Food Allergy Yardstick – Where Does Omalizumab Fit? Additional archived food allergy webinars (and many other topics) can be found on our clinical webinars page.
Teaching tools – if you’re tasked with making a presentation about food allergy to other allergists or primary care physicians, use our slide presentation and speaker notes. They can be customized to your needs.
The College’s popular AllergyTalk podcast covers food allergy topics. Listen and get CME!
Try our MicroCME – and get credit in about 30 minutes! This year we added new modules focused on food allergy, such as:
- A Simple Toolkit for Addressing Patient Anxiety in the Food Allergy Clinic
- Epicutaneous Immunotherapy in Food Allergy
- Infant Food Challenges: Protocols and Candidates
Don’t forget Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, for studies and perspectives on food allergy. Here are a few recent ones:
- Incidence of food allergic reactions among adolescents engaged in food allergy management
- How I diagnose IgE-mediated food allergy
- Development of a validated, updated North American pediatric food allergy anaphylaxis management plan
Resources for patients
For your patients, the College recently updated its Food Allergies patient brochure – in English and Spanish. The brochure explains food allergies in easy-to-understand language. Brochures can be downloaded and printed to hand to patients or added electronically to patient portals. For more food allergy resources for patients, visit our food allergy web page. The College’s public website also has information on Palforzia®, the FDA-approved treatment for children.
When it comes to food allergy resources, the College has you covered!
