NAPAAC 2024
2024-04-12 08:00 - 2024-04-14 17:00 (America/Toronto)
North American Pediatric Allergy & Asthma Congress
Advances in Pediatric Allergy: Moving Towards Proactive Management
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
For more information, please visit: https://education.acaai.org/NAPAAC24 or scan the QR code below.

Las Vegas, Nevada

CSACI Webinar – Updates in Pediatric and Adult FPIES
2024-05-14 19:30 - 20:45
Calling all CSACI Members – Join us for a CSACI Webinar on
Updates in Pediatric and Adult FPIES
May 14 @ 7:30 PM EDT
Speaker: Dr. Sara Anvari (Houston, TX, US)
Moderated by: Dr. Jennifer Protudjer, PhD (Winnipeg, MB)
Register to attend here
[Members only, Zoom links provided by email]
This webinar is an educational activity approved as an Accredited Group Learning Activity under Section 1 of the Framework of Continuing Professional Development options as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. As an accredited provider, the CSACI has approved this program and it is valued at 1.25 Section 1 Maintenance of Certification credits.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Describe diagnostic criteria for FPIES in pediatric and adult patients
Identify burdens of FPIES related to nutrition and feeding
Describe treatment management of FPIES

Guest Speaker

Dr. Sara Anvari ​

As the Director of Clinical Trials for the TCH Food Allergy Program, Dr. Anvari has been an advocate for food allergic patients and has helped develop and bring the latest food allergy clinical trials to Texas Children’s Hospital.
In addition to her strong interest in preventing and treating all forms of allergic and immunological conditions, Dr. Anvari has established subspecialty clinics focused on treating patients with food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES), COVID vaccine allergies and penicillin allergy delabeling. She is committed to improving the quality of life for infants, children and adolescents with allergic and immunologic disorders.

Moderated by Dr. Jennifer Protudjer, PhD​

Dr. Jennifer Protudjer PhD is the Endowed Research Chair in Allergy, Asthma and the Environment; and, an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba; a research scientist at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba; an epidemiologist with the Clinical Trials Platform at the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation; Section Head, Allied Health, of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; and, sits on the steering committee for Canada’s National Food Allergy Action Plan. She also holds an adjunct professorship in the Department of Foods and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba, and is an affiliated researcher at the Karolinska Institutet, where she completed her post-doctoral training. Her primary research interests include environmental risk factors for, and societal consequences of allergic disease, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Women in Allergy and Immunology 2024
2024-06-14 12:00 - 18:00
Join us on June 14th for the 2024 CSACI Women in Allergy and Immunology (Virtual) Conference as we celebrate the women specialists who work in Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
ALL are welcome to attend this event!
The Women in Allergy and Immunology Conference is an accredited group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

AAISO – 2024 Annual Allergy Update
2024-09-21 | Pan Pacific Toronto Hotel, Toronto, 900 York Mills Rd, Toronto, Ontario, NorM3B 3H2, Canada
The Allergy Asthma & Immunology Society of Ontario is pleased to present ALLERGY UPDATE 2024. This is the 39th annual SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM FOR THE PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Our objective is to continue to provide practical, topical, and up to date information related to the practice of allergy, asthma, and immunology. Information presented will result in a better understanding of basic and clinical allergy and will present strategies for the treatment of allergic and immunological diseases.

CSACI ASM
2024-11-06 - 2024-11-09 | Banff Springs Hotel
Banff Springs Hotel – Nov. 6 – 9, 2024

CSACI Webinar – Spirometry Interpretation in Asthma Diagnosis: the Basics and Beyond
2025-02-25 19:30 - 20:15
Calling all CSACI Members – Join us for a CSACI Webinar on
Spirometry Interpretation in Asthma Diagnosis:
the Basics and Beyond
February 25 @ 7:30 PM EST
Speaker: Dr. Jalal Moolji (Edmonton, AB)
Moderated by: Dr. Ling Ling (Edmonton, AB)
Register to attend here
[Members only, Zoom links provided by email]
This webinar is an educational activity approved as an Accredited Group Learning Activity under Section 1 of the Framework of Continuing Professional Development options as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. As an accredited provider, the CSACI has approved this program and it is valued at 1.25 Section 1 Maintenance of Certification credits.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Describe the essential components of spirometry testing including the American Thoracic Society standards for acceptable patient effort.
Analyse the utility of FEF 25-75% in the context of asthma diagnosis
Assess the evidence supporting the use of 10% improvement in baseline FEV1 or FVC as markers for bronchial responsiveness.

Guest Speaker

Dr. Jalal Moolji​
MSc, MD, FRCPC, DRCPSC

Dr. Jalal Moolji is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Alberta. He supports the clinical and research mission of the severe asthma clinic, particularly regarding adult-onset, and severe asthma. He also treats patients with other allergic/eosinophilic pulmonary diseases, like non-asthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis, and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome. His primary clinical interest is sleep medicine, including sleep-disordered breathing, insomnia and narcolepsy. He assists patients with neuromuscular diseases (e.g., Duchenne muscular dystrophy) who require long-term breathing support.

Moderated by Dr. Ling Ling

Dr Ling Ling received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Alberta. She completed Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Alberta and Clinical Immunology and Allergy Residency at McMaster University. She is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta with practice at both the academic institution and private practice.

Women in Allergy & Immunology 2025
2025-05-02 12:00 - 17:30
Women in Allergy & Immunology 2025

Come join us again as we celebrate the women of Allergy and Clinical Immunology!
May 2, from noon to 5:30 PM EST

Preliminary Program (subject to change)

Ergonomics – Tana Bullock 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Yoga Session – Leanne Whiting 1:00 – 1:30 PM
Women’s Health & Wellness – Dr. Jessie Mahoney 1:30 – 2:30 PM
Break – 2:30 – 2:45 PM
Financial Management – Dr. Jane Healey and Dr. Stephanie Zhou 2:45 – 3:45 PM
Charting Champions (Practice Management) – Dr. Sarah Smith 3:45 – 4:45 PM
Networking Hour – Virtual Chocolate Tasting 4:45 – 5:15 PM

Registration

Registration fees: Registration includes online access to zoom sessions, delegate bag (mailed) & optional social event. REGISTRATION MUST BE RECEIVED BEFORE APRIL 21st, 2025 FOR DELEGATE BAGS.

Regular rate: $ 95.00 CAD
Fellows-in-Training/Students/Residents: $ 45.00 CAD

The Women in Allergy and Immunology Conference is an accredited group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Register online

Meet Our Speakers

Tana Bullock
Tana Bullock, B.Sc, PKin, is the lead for office ergonomics assessments and services of MoveSafe in the greater Vancouver area. She’s been a part of the MoveSafe team for 13 years, performing both Field and Office Ergonomic assessments and providing education. Her background in Disability Management helps her understand the consequences of sustained unhealthy posture and movement habits. She is focused on applying her knowledge to help prevent injury.
Tana enjoys the preventative aspect of her work that allows her to combine her Kinesiology education and coaching skillset. She educates her clients on their workstation set-up as well as teaches them the proper posture and movement habits necessary for working in the millennial office environment.

Dr. Jessie Mahoney

Dr. Jessie Mahoney is a pediatrician, a certified life coach, and a yoga and mindfulness instructor. As a practicing pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente for over 18 years, Dr. Mahoney has been a leader in the physician wellness movement her entire career. She is a frequent public speaker and workshop facilitator. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF, Chair of the SF Marin Medical Society Task Force on Physician Wellness, and former Chair of the California Medical Association Subcommittee on Physician Wellness.

Dr. Mahoney believes that mindfulness and coaching are a key component to changing the culture of healthcare, improving health patients and caregivers, and to improving our healthcare system. Her passion is utilizing coaching and mindfulness to help her colleagues be the best healers and humans they can be.

Dr. Jane Healey
Dr. Jane Healey is a hospital-based paediatrician at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga. Together with her husband, Dr. Paul Healey, they created the Physician Financial Independence (PFI) online community in 2017, which now has over 35,000 members. It is a space where physicians can teach each other about personal finance and happiness that does not accept any advertising and is free from industry bias.
Jane is a strong advocate for promoting financial literacy and reducing burnout in medicine and values being a neutral, non-biased source of information for Canadian physicians.

Leanne Whiting
Leanne Whiting is an author, elementary school teacher, yoga instructor, teacher trainer and founder of Grow A Lotus Yoga. She is renowned for her creative and playful teachings of yoga through story. Leanne skillfully teaches with subtle alignment in the body, inquiry and discovery of the mind, and a playful enthusiasm of the heart.
She teaches children’s yoga in schools throughout Halifax, NS, along with professional development programs for educators and professionals.
Leanne is the author of children’s yoga book, Be Like A Tree, and a Master of Education student at St. Francis Xavier University.

Dr. Stephanie Zhou
Dr. Stephanie Zhou is an Addictions & Family Physician, and Department Lead of EDI & Social Accountability at Sunnybrook Hospital. Stephanie developed the Financial Literacy Curriculum at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and serves on the Financial Aid committee. Outside of her clinical roles, she is on the Board of Directors for Toronto Public Health, Habitat for Humanity GTA, and Chair of the Practicing Well program at the Ontario College of Family Physicians.
She is a nationally invited speaker on economic mobility, diversity mentorship, and founded the Canadian Physicians Financial Wellness Conference. In 2022, she was selected as Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by WXN.

2025 CSACI ASM
2025-10-16 08:00 - 2025-10-19 17:00 | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Come celebrate the CSACI’s 80th Anniversary at the Annual Scientific Meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This year’s meeting will have something for everyone; outstanding educational sessions, excellent group activities, and a truly unique welcome reception at the Canadian Human Rights Museum.
Register Here
