Advances in Pediatric Food Allergy: What you need to know about Prevention, Testing and Treatment

Saturday, December 3, 2022, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Online


Our course is designed to provide the practicing clinician, both generalists and allergists, and allied health, with updates on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of food allergies. Our goal is to provide a unique, interactive course that highlights scientific advances which support current clinical practice guidelines for food allergy.

1. Review current approaches to preventing food allergies.
2. Discuss how to accurately diagnose food allergy.
3. Recognize signs and symptoms of anaphylaxis so that treatment can be administered promptly.
4. Describe the currently available peanut allergy treatment and other emerging treatments for food allergy.
5. Identify nutritional issues that may result in food allergic individuals.
6. Advise on how to manage food allergy in school, restaurants and while traveling.
7. Understand diagnosis and management of food-protein induced enterocolitis and eosinophilic esophagitis.
8. Appreciate health disparities that exist in food allergy.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (6.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (6.00 hours)

It is the policy of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to ensure objectivity, balance, independence, transparency, and scientific rigor in all CME-provided educational activities. All faculty participating in the planning or implementation of a provided activity are expected to disclose to the audience any relevant financial relationships and to assist in resolving any conflict of interest that may arise from the relationship. Presenters must also make a meaningful disclosure to the audience of their discussions of unlabeled or unapproved drugs or devices. This information will be available as part of the course material.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Saturday, December 3, 2022