Dr. Julia Upton is a Clinical Immunologist and Allergist at the Hospital for Sick Children, an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and the Medical Director of the SickKids Clinical Research Center. She is the immediate past Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Section Head of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and on the Health Care Advisory board of Food Allergy Canada. She graduated from Western University Medical school, completed residency at McMaster University, fellowship in Clinical Immunology and Allergy at University of Toronto, and a Master’s in Public Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Her clinical practice focuses on both clinical immunodeficiency and allergy. Her research interests include the identification and care of people with immunodeficiencies and exploring the risk factors, severity, prognosis and treatment of food allergies.

Dr Anne Pham-Huy completed her medical training at the University of Ottawa in 2003 and her pediatrics and infectious diseases training at McGill University in 2008. She joined CHEO in 2009 as a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and is the physician lead for the CHEO Primary Immunodeficiency Clinic and the program director for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Training Program. She is a member of the Special Immunization Clinic Network from the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) and actively sees patients with adverse events following immunizations or relative contraindications to immunization. She is a member of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) and current chair for Immunize Canada. Her research interests include patients with inborn errors of immunity and also immunization safety and practices, especially in special populations such as immunocompromised patients and infants exposed to biologics in utero.

Dr. Jim Kellner is a pediatrician, infectious diseases specialist, vaccine researcher and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Calgary and Alberta Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kellner was Head of the Department of Pediatrics in Calgary from 2008 to 2018. Since then, he has returned to his academic focus on vaccine preventable infections, including COVID-19, through research and advisory work. He is a member of the federal COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and the Alberta Advisory Committee on Immunization. He is leading and participating in several local, national, and international COVID-19 research studies on immunity in children, vaccine safety and a vaccine clinical trial.