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The Los Angeles Society of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, Inc., sponsors educational meetings that help promote best practices among clinicians caring for asthma and allergy patients.

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Fall Symposium 2012

This highly anticipated meeting features several nationally and internationally known board certified allergists. This annual CME activity is accredited through the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Please email laallergysociety@gmail.com for registration information.

Saturday, September 29, 2012
7:30 am to 1:30 pm
Skirball Cultural Center

Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease:
New Molecular Insights into an Old Mystery
Joshua Boyce, MD
Albert L. Sheffer Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research
Inflammation and Allergic Disease Research Section
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Food Allergy Diagnostics: New Guidelines and Beyond
Scott H. Sicherer, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Jaffe Food Allergy Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Refractory Urticaria
David Khan, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

Human Biome and Immune Development:
Influences on Natural Selection and the “Hygiene Hypothesis”
Larry Borish, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Virginia, School of Medicine

Winter Meeting 2012

This meeting featured a well-known board certified allergist who updated the membership on the latest studies and clinical research efforts in the field of asthma, allergy and clinical immunology.

The lecture took place on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Entitled: "Optimizing Asthma Care"
Richard J. Martin, MD
Chairman and Professor of Medicine
National Jewish Hospital, Denver, Colorado

Program Highlights of Past Meetings

Fall Symposium 2011

From left to right: Ricardo Tan, MD, LASAACI President, Donald Leung, MD, Dana Wallace, MD and Jonathan Spergel, MD

From left to right: Jonathan Spergel, MD, Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, MD, and Marc Riedl, MD, LASAACI Board

Program Agenda:

• Update on Diagnosis and Management of Antibody Deficiencies
  Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, MD, PhD
   
• Update on Atopic Dermatitis
  Donald Leung, MD
   
• Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders
  Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD
   
• Asthma vs. COPD: A Clinical Diagnosis
  Dana Wallace, MD

From left to right: Tracey Bruckner, from Johnson & Johnson/McNeil and Neil Ross, from Biofusion.

Many thanks to the pharmaceutical and medical companies that sponsored the Symposium:

Abbott Laboratories, Aerocrine, Inc., Alcon Laboratories, Inc., ALK Abello, Allermed Laboratories, AstraZeneca LP, Baxter Bioscience, BioRx, Biofusion, Coram, Crescent Home Health, CSL Behring, LLC, Dey LP, Dyax, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Greer, Grisfols Bioscience, Hollister-Stier Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson/McNeil, Kedrion, Lincoln Diagnostics, Inc., Meda Pharmaceuticals, Merck, NeilMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Novartis, Nutricia North America, Inc., Shire Human Genetic Therapies, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Sunovion, TEVA Respiratory, LLC, Thermo Fisher Scientific, US Bioservices, and ViroPharma Incorporated.

Click here for 2010 Fall Symposium pictures and program highlights

Click here for 2009 Fall Symposium pictures and program highlights

Click here for 2012 Winter Meeting Picture and Program Information

Click here for 2011 Winter Meeting Picture and Program Information

Click here for 2010 Winter Meeting Picture and Program Information

Click here for 2009 Winter Meeting Picture and Program Information

Click here for 2008 Winter Meeting pictures and program highlights

Click here for 2008 Electronic Medical Records workshop

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