Anne K. Ellis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine with a cross-appointment to the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen’s University, having joined the Faculty in August 2008. Her position is one of a Clinician Scientist with 70% protected time for research.

She has served as the Chair of the Division of Allergy & Immunology since May 2010, and is the Director of the Allergy Research Unit of Kingston General Hospital; the flagship of this research program being the Environmental Exposure Unit (EEU), an internationally recognized and validated controlled allergen challenge model of allergic rhinitis. She is also the Co-Director of the Allergic Rhinitis Clinical Investigator Collaborative (AR-CIC), a National multi-centre network of allergic rhinitis researchers, which receives federal funding via AllerGen NCE.

Dr. Vander Leek completed both medical school and a Pediatric residency at the University of Alberta, followed by subspecialty training in Clinical Immunology & Allergy at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado. He is part of a private practice pediatric allergy clinic in Edmonton, Alberta, and is a member of the Department of Pediatrics at the Stollery Children’s hospital, University of Alberta.

Dr. Julia Upton is a Clinical Immunologist and Allergist at the Hospital for Sick Children, an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, co-Director of the SickKids Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Programme, and the Medical Director of the SickKids Clinical Research Center. She is a past Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Section Head of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. She is on the Health Care Advisory board of Food Allergy Canada. She is the 2022 awardee of the Robyn Allen Leadership Award through 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 optimal care of people with immunodeficiencies and exploring the risk factors, severity, prognosis and optimizing the treatment of food allergies.

Edmond S. Chan is the Head of the Division of Allergy & Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics, and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He sees patients in the Allergy clinic at BC Children’s Hospital. He created the UBC Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Allergy fellowship training program and was its first program director. He is a Clinical Investigator at the Child and Family Research Institute, and his research interests are in food allergy and eosinophilic esophagitis. He is on the Board of directors of the Canadian Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.

He is the principal author of the latest Canadian Paediatric Society/Canadian Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology Food Allergy Prevention position statement. He is on the NIAID Coordinating Committee and Expert Panel, for the update to the Food Allergy guidelines (Prevention of Peanut allergy).

Lori Connors is certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in both Allergy/Clinical Immunology and Internal Medicine. She has been in practice since 2010. Her time is spent mainly at Halifax Allergy and Asthma Associates as an allergist and immunologist. The remainder of her time is spent practicing internal medicine at the QEII Health Sciences Centre.  Outside of her medical practice Dr. Connors enjoys spending time with her husband, daughter and son. She also is an avid reader and has recently discovered an appreciation for yoga.

Dr. Victoria Cook grew up in Victoria, and completed a Bachelor of Science degree (Biology) at the University of Victoria in 2006. Having never experienced a “real” Canadian winter, she decided to move to Edmonton where she obtained an MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Alberta in 2008. She remained at the U of A for her Medical Doctorate, which she finished in 2012. She was eager to return to the west coast, and moved to Vancouver to complete a Pediatrics Residency at BC Children’s Hospital through the University of British Columbia. She remained at UBC and BC Children’s Hospital for her Fellowship training in Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology, which she completed in June 2017.

Special interests include food allergy, primary immunodeficiency, and auto inflammatory syndromes. Dr. Cook has ongoing research projects with the Division of Allergy at BC Children’s Hospital, and she is developing a mobile tool for patients who are concerned about possible food allergy.

Dr. Mack is a Pediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Specialist.   He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University and is an active member of the Pediatric Emergency Department.  His interests include early childhood allergy prevention, anaphylaxis education and oral food desensitization.

Dr Ben-Shoshan graduated from The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel and completed his fellowship in Pediatric Allergy/Clinical Immunology at Montreal Children’s Hospital in 2009.  Dr Ben-Shoshan has been granted his Msc degree in Epidemiology in McGill in 2011.  In 2011 he was granted the Emerging Clinician Scientist  fellowship award by AllerGen NCE and in 2013 and 2019 the  FRSQ junior 1 and Junior 2 salary awards respectively.  In 2017 he has received the F. Estelle R. Simons award for Research by the  CSACI.  Dr Ben-Shoshan is currently a physician in the division of Allergy/ Immunology at Montreal Children’s Hospital and is involved in research initiatives on anaphylaxis, chronic urticaria  and immunodeficiency.

Dr. Rosenfield obtained her Undergraduate Bachelor of Science Honours (Genetics) Degree and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Manitoba. Following the completion of her Medical Degree, Dr. Rosenfield completed an Internal Medicine Residency through the University of Manitoba and in 2017, Dr. Rosenfield completed her Clinical Immunology and Allergy Residency at McMaster University. She is an assistant professor at the University of Mantioba in the Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and currently practices at The Winnipeg Clinic.

Dr. Riggioni is a pediatric allergist and clinical immunologist with a special interest in
food allergy diagnosis and treatment. She leads clinical trials exploring long-term outcomes of food immunotherapy and improving the safety and accessibility of food allergy treatments. Apart from being the Interest Section Advisor for food allergy and anaphylaxis of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, she also serves as Associate Editor for the Pediatric Allergy and Immunology journal (PAI) and is an elected member of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Immunotherapy Interest Group. 
Currently, Dr. Riggioni is a staff physician in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of
Immunology and Allergy and the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Program (FAAP) at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, and an Assistant Professor at the
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.