ALLERGEN - Key Persons


Adi Treasurywala

Job Titles:
  • President, Arrowcan Partners Inc.

Aidan Long

Job Titles:
  • Consulting / Aim Therapeutics Inc. AirZone Incorporated

Albert Tsai

Job Titles:
  • Consulting

Alina Gildiner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, McMaster University

Allan Becker

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  • Professor and Head, Section of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Department of Pediatircs & Child Health, University of Manitoba

Amrit Singh

Job Titles:
  • President, AllerGen Student and New Professionals Network ( ASNPN )
  • Regional Director, Pacific the University of British Columbia / President the University of British Columbia

Andrew Halayko

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  • Professor, Department of Physiology and Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba

Andrew Sandford

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  • Professor, Department of Medicine, the University of British Columbia

André Dufresne

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  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Anne Ellis

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  • President McMaster University / past President McMaster University

Arlene Yee

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  • Director, Industry Partnerships and Commercialization Corporate Ventures, the Hospital for Sick Children

Aubrey Tingle

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  • Consulting
  • President & CEO, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Bassel Dawod

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  • Regional Director, Quebec / Atlantic Dalhousie University

Benjamin Raby

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  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Brigham & Women 's Hospital

Bernard Prigent

Job Titles:
  • VP & Medical Director, Pfizer Canada Inc.

Bill Swan

Job Titles:
  • Deputy CEO, International Health Economics Association

Bonnie Kaplan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Brian Underdown

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  • Managing Director, Lumira Capital Corporation

Bruce Bochner

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  • Professor of Medicine and Director Division of Allergy and Immunology, John Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Centre

Bruce Mazer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Cameron Mustard

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  • Ex - Officio, University of Toronto

Catherine Lemière

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Charles Frankish

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  • Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine University of Ottawa Allergist & Clinical Immunologist, Kanata Allergy Services

Chaviva Hosek

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  • President & CEO, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Cheryl Cuddeford

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  • Consulting / Child and Family Research Institute / Childhood Asthma Foundation

Chris Mody

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  • Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary

Christine Hampson

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  • President & CEO, the Sandbox Project

Christopher Carlsten

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  • Associate Professor of Medicine, AstraZeneca Chair and Canada Research Chair in Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease, the University of British Columbia

Claire Infante-Rivard

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  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Claude Roy

Job Titles:
  • Gastroenterologist and Professor Emeritus, Hôpital Ste - Justine

Claudia Hui

Job Titles:
  • Analyst, Investment Banking, Bloom Burton & Co.
  • Regional Director, Ontario McMaster University

Cynthia Kanagaratham

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  • Regional Director, Quebec / Atlantic McGill University

D. Rob Sutherland

Job Titles:
  • Consulting
  • Professor, Department of Medicine Technical Director Clinical Flow Cytometry, Laboratory Medicine Program University of Toronto, University Health Network

Daniel McKennitt

Job Titles:
  • Consulting / David Brener & Associates Inc.

Daniel Nixon - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors
  • Director and Chief Financial Officer, Molecular You Corporation
Mr. Nixon is a seasoned executive with extensive private equity, investment banking and operations experience.

Danuta Radzioch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team
  • Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University Medical Scientist, Clinical Immunology, Montréal General Hospital

Dave Peden

Job Titles:
  • Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy, Immunology & Environmental Medicine & Lung Biology, University of North Carolina

David B. Shindler

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO, Pro - Bio Associates

David Brener

Job Titles:
  • Principal, David Brener & Associates Inc

David Broide

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine, University of California

David Préfontaine

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  • Vice President McGill University

David Wishart

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  • Professor, Faculty of Science, Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Dean Befus

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta

Deborah Danoff

Job Titles:
  • Consulting

Diana Royce

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman Managing Director & COO ( Ex - Officio ) / President & CEO ( Member ), AllerGen NCE Inc
  • Managing Director & COO ( Ex - Officio ) / President & CEO ( Member ), AllerGen NCE Inc
  • Managing Director & COO, AllerGen NCE Inc
  • President and CEO, AllerGen NCE Inc
Dr. Royce has over 30 years of experience in the post-secondary and health sectors related to public consultation and research, program implementation, strategic and operational planning, network administration, partnership and public policy development, advocacy, fundraising, knowledge mobilization, conference planning and meeting facilitation.

Diane Lougheed

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Queen 's University

Donald Green

Job Titles:
  • Chairman & CEO, Greenfleet Ltd

Donald Stark

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  • Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, the University of British Columbia

Douglas Barber

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  • Distinguished Professor - in - Residence, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University

Dr. Howard Bergman - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Dr. Jeremy Hirota

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director, Pacific the University of British Columbia

Dr. Pieter Cullis - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Director, Life Sciences Institute
  • Director, Life Sciences Institute Chair Personalized Medicine Initiative, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the University of British Columbia
Director, Life Sciences Institute; Director, NanoMedicines Research Group; Chair, Personalized Medicine Initiative; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia

Dr. Teresa To

Job Titles:
  • Investigator
  • Senior Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Dr. Tony Bai

Job Titles:
  • Dr. Tony Bai Professor
  • Professor, the University of British Columbia

Edmond Chan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Eduardo Reyes-Serratos

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director, West - Central University of Alberta

Elaine Fuertes

Job Titles:
  • Secretary - Treasurer the University of British Columbia

Elinor Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Consulting / EMBO / Emory School of Medicine
  • President & CEO, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada

Elizabeth Simms

Job Titles:
  • C )

Eric Leitch

Job Titles:
  • Chairman Canadian Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Foundation ( CAAIF ) Allerist & Immunologist

Erica Di Ruggiero

Job Titles:
  • Consulting

Erica Ladouceur

Job Titles:
  • Member at Large University of Alberta

Farzian Aminuddin

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  • Events / Communications Director

Feige Kaplan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Fiona Brinkman

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  • Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Associate Professor, School of Computing Science & Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University

Frances Silverman

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  • Ex - Officio, University of Toronto

Frank Viti

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Development Ducks Unlimited Canada

Gail Gauvreau

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  • Associate Professor, McMaster University

Garthika Navaranjan

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  • Regional Director, Ontario University of Toronto

Gena Lacuesta

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Gerry Giesbrecht

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Glenna Carr

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO, Carr - Gordon Limited

Gloria Jordana

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Director, Gastrointestinal, Respiratory & Inflammation, AstraZeneca Canada Inc

Greg Rex

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Hans Bisgaard

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  • Professor, Department of Pediatrics Head, Danish Pediatric Asthma Centre, University of Copenhagen

Hillel Koren

Job Titles:
  • Consultant, Environmental Health, LLC

Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Irvin Mayers

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta

James Martin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Janet Sutherland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Ms Sutherland was executive Director of CTS from 2015-2022, leading the organizarion and designing its overall stratgy. CTS is recognized as the national specialty society for respirology in Canada with members representing specialists, physicians, researchers and healthcare professionals from a variety of disciplines working in respiratory health.

Janice MacKinnon

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan

Jason Ohayon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Jean Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team
  • Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and of Pathology, Dalhousie University

Jean-François Leprince

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner CTI Life Sciences Fund

Jeffrey Brook

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Occupational & Environmental Health and Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, the University of Toronto

Jennifer Protudjer

Job Titles:
  • President, AllerGen Student and New Professionals Network ( ASNPN )

Jim Dunn

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  • Research Scientist and Associate Professor, Departments of Geography & Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto

John Bienenstock

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  • Professor, Medicine and Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University

John Gordon

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  • Professor, Department of Medicine Director Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan

John McNaughton

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Comprehensive Care International

John-Paul Heale

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, the University of British Columbia

Judah A. Denburg

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Director & CEO, AllerGen NCE Inc

Juha Kere

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Molecular Genetics, Karolinska Institute

Kathy Hayward

Job Titles:
  • Consulting

Kazimierz Borkowski

Job Titles:
  • Vice - President, Medical Affairs AstraZeneca Canada Inc

Kelly McNagny

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Medical Genetics Hematopoietic Cell Development, the University of British Columbia

Kevin O'Brien Fehr

Job Titles:
  • Consultant, Kincora Innovation
  • Director, Basic Research and Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline Inc

Kim Wright

Job Titles:
  • Director, Communications and Knowledge Mobilization
  • for Media Requests and / or to Locate a Topic Expert, Contact

Kyla Jamieson

Job Titles:
  • Member at Large University of Calgary

Laura Feldman

Job Titles:
  • Member at Large University of Toronto / Vice President University of Toronto

Lawrence Joseph

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Leah Shaver

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  • Events Director University of Waterloo

Lianne Soller

Job Titles:
  • President, AllerGen Student and New Professionals Network ( ASNPN )
  • Regional Director, Quebec / Atlantic McGill University / Vice President McGill University

Lisa Cicutto

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing & Medicine, University of Toronto

Loretta Fiorillo

Job Titles:
  • Consulting / Louis Riel School / Lumira Capital

Loubna Akhabir

Job Titles:
  • Vice President McMaster University

Louis-Philippe Boulet

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  • Ex - Officio, Université Laval

Luc Marengère

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  • Managing Partner, TVM Capital

Luisa Giles

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  • Communications Director the University of British Columbia

Mahmoud Mostafa

Job Titles:
  • Member at Large University of Calgary

Mark Bisby

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Consulting
  • DPhil Independent Consultant

Mark Lundie

Job Titles:
  • Director, Medical Affairs, Rare Diseases, Pfizer Canada Inc

Mark Tenn

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  • Member at Large Queen 's University / Events Director Queen 's University

Matthew Gold

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  • Regional Director, Pacific West Central the University of British Columbia

Megan Knoll

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director, Quebec / Atlantic McGill University

Meghan Azad

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  • Events Director University of Alberta

Mena Soliman

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  • Communications Director Queen 's University

Michelle North

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  • President, ASNPN University of Toronto

Moshe Ben-Shoshan

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  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Mr. Graham Scott - CEO, Chairman

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  • CEO
  • Chairman

Mr. Lynton R. Wilson - Chairman

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  • Chairman
  • Chairman of the Board, CAE Inc

Natalie Williams

Job Titles:
  • Data Manager, NutriGen Birth Cohort Alliance, McMaster University

Nazir Jarjour

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin

Neil Lemon

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  • Technology Transfer Officer ( Health Sciences ), Industry Liaison Office, University of Saskatchewan

Nigel Paterson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Noreen Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Public Health, Professor of Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan

Oxana Latycheva

Job Titles:
  • Consultant

Padmaja Subbarao

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Subbarao's primary research interest is in the early determinants and development of asthma. Specifically, she is studying changes in infant lung function biomarkers of inflammation in this understudied group to elucidate the effect of environment and viruses on the early development of disease.

Paolo Renzi

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Pulmonologist, McGill University

Parker B. Francis

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellowship Program / Perkin Elmer Health Sciences Inc

Patricia Lorenz

Job Titles:
  • President, Sedulous Investments

Patrick Deane

Job Titles:
  • President and Vice - Chancellor, McMaster University

Paul Lucas

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO, GlaxoSmithKline Inc

Paul McDonald

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  • Associate Professor & Department Chair Department of Health Studies & Gerontology, University of Waterloo

Paul O'Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Dean & Vice President, Faculty of Health Sciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine Distinguished University Professor, McMaster University
Dr. O'Byrne is world renowned for his research on asthma that is the result of allergies.

Peter D. Burrows

Job Titles:
  • Consulting
  • Professor of Microbiology, UAB School of Medicine, University of Alabama

Peter George

Job Titles:
  • President, McMaster University

Peter Paré

Job Titles:
  • Professor, the University of British Columbia

Philippe Bégin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Pia Reece

Job Titles:
  • Post - Doctoral Fellow, McMaster University
  • Vice President McMaster University

Piush Mandhane

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor and Divisional Director, Paediatrics, Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta

Randall Yatscoff

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice - President, TEC Edmonton

Redwan Moqbel

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Director, Pulmonary Research Group, University of Alberta

Rick Burnett

Job Titles:
  • Health Canada

Robert Schleimer

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Allergy - Immunology Division, Northwestern University

Russell Williams

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Government Relations and Public Policy, Diabetes Canada

Sami Shariff

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director, West - Central University of Calgary

Samir Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Associate Scientist Associate Professor Staff Respirologist, Li Ki Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital Department of Medicine University of Toronto St. Michael 's Hospital

Samuel Godefroy

Job Titles:
  • Director General, Bureau of Chemical Safety, Health Canada

Sandy Kapur

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Sanjay Mehta

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Scott Sicherer

Job Titles:
  • Consulting
  • Professor, Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology, Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, the Mount Sinai Hospital

Scott Weiss

Job Titles:
  • Harvard Partner Center Fr Genetics & Genomics, Harvard University

Sean Bendall

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ( Research ) of Pathology, Stanford University

Shawna McGhan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Simon Pimstone

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO, Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Stephanie London

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator Genetics, Environment Respirtory Disease Group, North Carolina, USA

Stephanie Nairn

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director, Quebec / Atlantic McGill University

Steven Maltby

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  • Regional Director, Pacific West Central the University of British Columbia

Steven Smith

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  • Regional Director, Ontario McMaster University

Stuart Turvey

Job Titles:
  • Director, Clinical Research, BC Children 's Hospital, Professor, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, the University of British Columbia

Susan Elliott

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Dean, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Unversity of Waterloo
  • Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo

Susan Kennedy

Job Titles:
  • Professor, the University of British Columbia

Susan Moisey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Susan Sherwin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Susan Waserman

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, McMaster University

Sylviane Duval

Job Titles:
  • Consulting
  • Knowledge Transfer Specialist

Terry Delovich

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Terry Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO, Cancer Care Ontario

Thomas Issekutz

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  • Professor and Head, Division of Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University

Thomas Kierans

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  • Chairman of Council & Vice President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Toronto

Tom Hudson

Job Titles:
  • President and Scientific Director, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Tong-Jun Lin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Umme Akhtar

Job Titles:
  • Secretary - Treasurer University of Toronto

Vanessa Foran

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO of Asthma Canada
Ms Foran is President and CEO of Asthma Canada, which provides information and services to help the 3 million Canadians with asthma.

Victoria Arrandale

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director, Ontario University of Toronto

Vivek Gandhi

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director, West Central the University of British Columbia

Wade Watson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Wayne G. Shreffler

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, Director, Food Allergy Centre, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
  • Consulting

Wenda Greer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Wendy Ungar

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Wendy Untereiner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Wes Burks

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Duke University Medical Centre

Yohan Bosse

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Allergy & Asthma Associates Team

Young Woong Kim

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director, Pacific the University of British Columbia

Yuka Asai

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director, Quebec / Atlantic McGill University

Yuri Quintana

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center