CSACI NEWSLETTER Volume 25 Issue II AUTUMN 2016 In this issue: • FIT Corner • 2016 Annual Meeting Highlights • Section Reports CSACI NEWSLETTER • CAAIF News • And much more … PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Dear CSACI Members: I would like to thank all of I would like to begin my first Message to the Members by first thanking Paul Keith for his excellent chairing of our last 2 Annual the Members who volunteer Scientific Meetings in Vancouver and Montreal. They were excellent to make the CSACI what it is. Meetings and very well attended. I would also like to thank Sandy We have accomplished many Kapur for his excellent leadership over the last 2 years. I look forward things and I look forward to to what he’ll be doing for us as Past-President as he arranges our next helping lead the great group 2 Meetings, first in Toronto in 2017, and then on his home turf of of people who I work with on Halifax in 2018. the Board of Directors and Most of you will have known me as the CPD (Continuing Professional the Management team. Development) Chair for the Society for…well…quite a number of years. Prior to that I had started on the Board as the Head of the Anaphylaxis Interest Section. I took over from Dr Peter Vadas and I can foresee many issues facing our Society in the next few would like to take this opportunity to thank him for seeing something years including: changes in the types of epinephrine auto- in me that suggested I was ‘Board Material.’ injectors available in Canada, the role of sublingual I grew up in Oshawa, ON and went from there to London, ON to immunotherapy in allergy practice, the role of biologic study first Undergraduate Science at the University of Western agents in asthma and the eventual roles of food oral Ontario (yes…I can still call it that) followed by Medical School there. I desensitization vs. epicutaneous immunotherapy for food did the last of the Rotating Internships at the Ottawa Civic Hospital allergy. I personally wish to investigate the extent of allergy then went back to London for Internal Medicine followed by Allergy teaching in Medical Schools, to maximize our CPD expertise and Clinical Immunology. I also had the pleasure of doing electives in to benefit not only our Members via Section III Modules but Winnipeg and Toronto and made many connections there. In London also to potentially create CPD programs for Family Medicine I not only got to work with the great teaching staff who continue to and to increase not only our Social Media presence but also work there, but also with Dr John Toogood, a Western legend who I our profile nationally. I hope we may also continue with got to co-author an Abstract with. Thereafter I left to open my Sandy’s initiatives which have led us to be involved in the practice in Barrie, ON. At the time of its opening, my clinic was the development of International Allergy Guidelines. only full-time Royal College Allergy Practice in Ontario between Richmond Hill and…well…Winnipeg. To this day I am an Adjunct Professor at UWO. CSACI NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 25 – ISSUE II PAGE 2 CSACI EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE (cont’d) th President Our Midterm Meeting Reception will be in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday March 4 2017 and Dr. D. Fischer, Barrie our Annual Meeting will be in Toronto Oct 11-15, 2017 at the brand new Hotel X on the Toronto waterfront on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition. Our Annual Meeting has Past-President grown to the point we will also be making use of the Allstream Centre next door (the former Dr. S. Kapur, Halifax Automotive Building of the “Ex”). Vice-President I hope all of you can attend these Meetings and I look forward to seeing you there. Dr. H. Kim, Kitchener Secretary-Treasurer Last but not least, on behalf of the CSACI Executive and the membership, I would like to Dr. T. Vander Leek, Edmonton convey my sincere gratitude to Dr. Dean Befus, CSACI Board Member and Ms. Jo-Ann St- Vincent as the Allied Health Co-Chair Representative for serving for the Canadian Society of Board of Directors Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Thank you all for your spirit, hard work and dedication! It has Dr. E. Chan, Vancouver been an honour working with you. Dr. L. Connors, Halifax Dr. A. Ellis, Kingston David Fischer, MD, FRCPC Dr. D. Mack, Burlington Adjunct Professor, Western University Dr. C. McCusker, Montreal CSACI President Fellow-In-Training Twitter: @IgECPD Dr. M. Fein, Montreal Section Advisors Dr. K. Hildebrand, Vancouver Dr. J. Lee, Toronto Dr. S. Mace, Scarborough Dr. S. Turvey, Vancouver Dr. J. Upton, Toronto Ms. S. Johnson, Winnipeg Ms. L. Kirste, Vancouver Head Office P.O. Box 51045 Orleans, ON K1E 3W4 Email / courriel: [email protected] Tel: 613-986-5869 Louise Tremblay Executive Director Alexi Campbell Manager WAO International Scientific Conference December 6-9, 2016, Jerusalem, Israel Maintenance of Certification (MOC) deadline is January 31, 2017 Do you have feedback, concerns or suggestions? CSACI Canadian Reception – Atlanta (location to be confirmed) March 4, 2017 Share them with the membership! AAAAI Meeting – Atlanta Send your comments to the CSACI via March 3-6, 2017 email at: [email protected] CSACI NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 25 – ISSUE II PAGE 3 FELLOWS-IN-TRAINING CORNER Hello fellow CSACI members! My name is Michael Fein and I am honored to be the new senior FIT representative for the upcoming academic year. I would like to the thank the CSACI board for giving me this opportunity to introduce myself here and I would like to sincerely thank Dr. David Fahmy, our outgoing senior FIT representative for all of his hard work these past two years. We are lucky in our specialty to be a small, tight-knit community, and it was wonderful to see familiar faces and friends from across the st country at our recent 71 Annual Scientific Meeting in Montreal. Highlights for our fellows-in-training this year included a very successful FIT workshop with a focus on immunotherapy, OSCE OSCE 2016 preparation, and a new session on financial management. I would like to thank Dr. Harold Kim, Dr. Jaclyn Quirt, and We are delighted to report that fourth Dr. David Fahmy for leading the immunotherapy sessions and Dr. “Practice OSCE” at the CSACI annual Susan Waserman, Dr. Bill Moote, and all who volunteered their time to meeting was again a tremendous success. host the annual OSCE. Over 30 participated and gave feedback that is extremely valuable. We would like The CSACI election for the incoming Junior FIT representative was to thank our dedicated faculty and held, and the role will be filled by Dr. Yasmin Moolani Merchant from members who committed their time and the University of Toronto. Congratulations and we look forward to expertise. your involvement in the CSACI! We wish you all a happy and healthy holiday and New Year! My role as FIT representative will be to communicate our thoughts and needs as FIT’s to the CSACI board so that the CSACI continues to Respectfully submitted, provide the beneficial resources, training, and educational opportunities that are so important to fellows. In this vein, I encourage Dr. Susan Waserman and Dr. Bill Moote you to email me with any suggestions or concerns you may have. Furthermore, if anyone is interested in becoming more involved in one of the interest sections of the CSACI, this is very much encouraged and you can reach out directly to the interest section chairs. I look forward to seeing many of you at the AAAAI meeting in Atlanta! Wishing you an exciting, productive, and rewarding year, CSACI TRAVEL GRANTS – MID-TERM MEETING (AAAAI) TRAVEL GRANTS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO ALLERGY AND Dr. Michael Fein IMMUNOLOGY RESIDENTS AND ASSOCIATE FELLOWS Senior FIT representative ENROLLED IN CANADIAN PROGRAMS OF ALLERGY AND [email protected] CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATION FORMS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN DECEMBER – VISIT THE CSACI WEBSITE: www.csaci.ca DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: JANUARY 27, 2017 CSACI NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 25 – ISSUE II PAGE 4 2016 CSACI ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING September 29 to October 2, 2016 MONTRÉAL, QUEBEC ǀ The 2016 CSACI annual scientific meeting was a great success with highly respected national and international speakers taking time out of their busy schedules to help make this a memorable event. Most importantly, the Montréal meeting was the best attended meeting since the CSACI has organized its own meetings. Over 420 were in attendance and we are able to enjoy this educational conference. The program began with the 4th Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for trainees, followed by an excellent joint CSACI / Immunodeficiency Canada immunology symposium. The CSACI provided three Section 3 sessions and an additional three hands on workshops. These meetings have been providing effective CPD meetings for over 15 years. We hope that this meeting provided you with an opportunity to expand your knowledge, renew acquaintances, make some new friends, and network with researchers, clinicians and allied health professionals. Dr. Paul Keith, 2016 CSACI annual meeting chair We would like to congratulate the following 2016 award recipients: The CSACI Distinguished Member Award: Dr. Allan Becker The CSACI Distinguished Member Award is presented to an exemplary member of the CSACI for his or her outstanding achievements in Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, dedication to the CSACI, and whose accomplishments serve as an inspiration and example for others to follow. The F. Estelle R. Simons Award for Research: Dr. Christine McCusker The F. Estelle R. Simons Award for Research is presented to a CSACI member in recognition of his or her exemplary research in the field of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.