Tang Mimi - Kids Food Allergies for Dummies

Kids Food Allergies For Dummies, Australian & New Zealand Edition

by Assoc. Prof. Mimi Tang

and Assoc. Prof. Katie Allen

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Author:Tang, Mimi

Title:Kids Food Allergies For Dummies / Mimi Tang and Katie Allen

EditionAustralian and New Zealand ed

ISBN:978 1 74246 844 0 (pbk.)

Notes:Includes index

Subjects:Food allergy in children

Other authors/ contributors:Allen, Katie

Dewey Number:618.92975

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About the Authors

Associate Professor Mimi Tang is a paediatric immunologist allergist at the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. She is Director of the Department of Allergy and Immunology at the Royal Childrens Hospital, which sees more than 2,000 children with allergic disease each year. Mimi is also Head of the Allergy and Autoimmunity Affinity Group, and Group Leader of Allergy and Immune Disorders Research at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute; she is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, lecturing within the undergraduate science and biomedical science degrees.

Her research continues to focus on investigating immune mechanisms leading to allergic disease, and on evaluating probiotics and prebiotics as novel treatment or prevention strategies. She has published widely in the area of food allergy and anaphylaxis, and is committed to developing the next generation of clinicians and researchers in allergy and immunology through teaching and training.

Mimi is passionate about translating research into clinical practice and policy both nationally and internationally. As Chair of the Paediatric Committee of ASCIA, she led the development of national guidelines on Prevention of Allergic Disease and Infant Feeding Advice which are now widely adopted across Australia. She played a key role in developing the Anaphylaxis Guidelines and Policy for Schools and Childrens Services in Victoria, and contributed to the development of ASCIA national guidelines for Prevention of Anaphylaxis in Schools.

Mimi sits on several expert committees including the World Allergy Organisation (WAO) Communications Council, the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) Adverse Reactions to Foods Committee, and the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) Anaphylaxis Committee and Paediatric Committee. Mimi leads a busy life outside of work, with three children aged between 11 and 17 years.

Associate Professor Katie Allen is a paediatric gastroenterologist and allergist practising in the field of food allergy at the Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne. After completing her medical degree at Monash University and undertaking a research year at Cambridge University, UK, Katie spent two years as a Clinical Gastroenterology Fellow at the University of Chicago and then received a PhD from The University of Melbourne.

Katie is Director of the Environment, Genes and Health Research Theme at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and is group leader of the Gastro and Food Allergy research group. She is chief investigator on 6 NHMRC-funded cohort studies, which all seek to answer parts of the jigsaw with regards to population health and evolution of the new allergy epidemic. Katie has published extensively within the area of food allergy, has a prestigious Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship and was awarded the MCRI rising star award in 2008 for the most successful researcher within ten years of PhD completion at the MCRI.

Katie is the principal investigator of the HealthNuts study at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, which is the largest single-centre population-based study of food allergy in children ever mounted. She is a member of the Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders committee and Adverse Reaction committee for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), and a member of both the Paediatric and Education committees for Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA). She also teaches in the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and currently supervises 6 PhD students. Despite this, she remains an active clinician in both the Department of Allergy and the Department of Gastroenterology at the Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, and has four children.