Dartmouth Health Children’s Lecture Series - Pediatric Food Allergies & Allergy Action Plans



Date & Location
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 10:00 AM - Saturday, October 10, 2026, 11:00 AM

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (1.00 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Overview

This Pediatric Lecture Series will discuss important pediatric topics that may lead to the improvement of child health from an individual, health care system and/or societal level. 

Presenter
Sarah A. Taylor-Black, MD
Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic Concord

Learning Outcome
At the conclusion of this presentation, (at least 75% of) participants will be able to discuss an allergy action plan for managing pediatric food allergies diagnosed in the clinic office setting. 

Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this activity have reported NO financial relationship(s)* with ineligible companies**.

* A “financial relationship" includes employee, researcher (named as the PI), consultant, advisor, speaker, independent contractor (including contracted research), royalties or patent beneficiary, executive role, and/or an ownership interest (not including stocks owned in a managed portfolio).

** An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Bibliographic Material

  • Cox L, Williams B, Sicherer S, Oppenheimer J, Sher L, Hamilton R, Golden D. Pearls and pitfalls of allergy diagnostic testing: report from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology/American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Specific IgE Test Task Force.  Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2008 Dec;101(6):580-92.

  • Bernstein I, Li J, Bernstein D et al. Allergy diagnostic testing: an updated practice parameter. Ann All Asthma Immunol 2008;100:s1-148.

  • Terr AI. Unconventional theories and unproven methods in allergy. In: Allergy Principles and Practice, 7th Ed, 97:1691-1709.

  • Wanderer AA, Bernstein IL, Goodman DL, et al. The Diagnosis and Management of Urticaria: a Practice Parameter. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2000;85:521-44.

  • Tarbox JA, Gutta RC, Ching EL, Radojicic C, Lang DM. Utility of routine laboratory testing in management of chronic urticaria/angioedema. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2011, 107: 239-43.

  • Bernstein IL, Li, JT, Bernstein DI et al. Allergy diagnostic testing: an updated practice parameter. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2008 Mar;100(3 Suppl 3):S1-148.

  • Kozel MM, Bossuyt PM, Mekkes JR, Bos JD. Laboratory tests and identified diagnoses in patients with physical and chronic urticaria and angioedema: A systematic review. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2003 Mar;48(3):409-16.

  • Johansson EK, Bergström A, Kull I, et al. IgE sensitization in relation to preschool eczema and filaggrin mutation. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2017; 140:1572.

  • Ashley SE, Tan HT, Vuillermin P, et al. The skin barrier function gene SPINK5 is associated with challenge-proven IgE-mediated food allergy in infants. Allergy 2017; 72:1356.

  • Kelleher MM, Dunn-Galvin A, Gray C, et al. Skin barrier impairment at birth predicts food allergy at 2 years of age. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2016; 137:1111.

  • Schäfer T. The impact of allergy on atopic eczema from data from epidemiological studies. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 2008; 8:418.

  • Schäfer T, Krämer U, Vieluf D, et al. The excess of atopic eczema in East Germany is related to the intrinsic type. Br J Dermatol 2000; 143:992.

  • Spergel JM, Beausoleil JL, Fiedler JM, et al. Correlation of initial food reactions to observed reactions on challenges. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2004; 92:217.

  • Chang A, Robison R, Cai M, Singh AM. Natural History of Food-Triggered Atopic Dermatitis and Development of Immediate Reactions in Children. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract 2016; 4:229.

  • Nowak S, Wang H, Schmidt B, Jarvinen KM. Vitamin D and iron status in children with food allergy. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2021; 127:57.

  • Lack G. Epidemiologic risks for food allergy. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2008; 121:1331.

  • Leung DYM, Berdyshev E, Goleva E. Cutaneous barrier dysfunction in allergic diseases. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2020; 145:1485.

  • Astolfi A, Cipriani F, Messelodi D, et al. Filaggrin Loss-of-Function Mutations Are Risk Factors for Severe Food Allergy in Children with Atopic Dermatitis. J Clin Med 2021; 10.

  • Du Toit, George, et al. "Randomized trial of peanut consumption in infants at risk for peanut allergy." New England Journal of Medicine 372.9 (2015): 803-813.

  • Du Toit G, Sayre PH, Roberts G, et al. Effect of Avoidance on Peanut Allergy after Early Peanut Consumption. N Engl J Med 2016; 374:1435.

  • Ierodiakonou D, Garcia-Larsen V, Logan A, et al. Timing of Allergenic Food Introduction to the Infant Diet and Risk of Allergic or Autoimmune Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA 2016; 316:1181.

  • Sicherer SH, Allen K, Lack G, et al. Critical Issues in Food Allergy: A National Academies Consensus Report. Pediatrics 2017; 140.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Dartmouth Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

American Medical Association (AMA)
Dartmouth Health designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Dartmouth Health designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC contact hours.

All other learners may claim CME-designated participation credit. Consult your professional licensing board regarding the applicability and acceptance of CME-designated participation credit for programs certified for credit by organizations accredited by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Education.

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