Dr. Mack is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University and is the Vice President, Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. His interests include early childhood allergy prevention, anaphylaxis education and oral food immunotherapy.

Dr. Chan is the Head of the Division of Allergy & Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics, and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He sees patients in the Allergy clinic at BC Children’s Hospital. He created the UBC Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Allergy fellowship training program and was its first program director. He is a Clinical Investigator at the Child and Family Research Institute, and his research interests are in food allergy and eosinophilic esophagitis.

He is the principal author of the latest Canadian Paediatric Society/Canadian Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology Food Allergy Prevention position statement. He is on the NIAID Coordinating Committee and Expert Panel, for the update to the Food Allergy guidelines (Prevention of Peanut allergy). He is the current President of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Dr. Protudjer is the Endowed Research Chair in Allergy, Asthma and the Environment; and, an associate professor, the Associate Director – Research; and Director, Pediatric Graduate Program, in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba; a research scientist at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba; She also holds an adjunct professorship in the Department of Foods and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba; and, and is an affiliated researcher at the Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden, where she completed two post-doctoral fellowships.

Her primary research interests include environmental risk factors for, primary and secondary prevention of, and societal consequences of allergic disease.

She teaches locally and internationally on food allergy; and, quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods. She was the lead architect on two educational programs: the Pediatric Graduate Program, at the University of Manitoba; and, the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology’s Food Allergy Educator Program.

Her service roles include Section Head, Allied Health, and, Co-Lead of the Research Pillar, for the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; member, steering committee for Canada’s National Food Allergy Action Plan; and, lead, Food Insecurity Working Group, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Dr. Ben-Shoshan is recognized as a global authority on the epidemiology of food allergy, anaphylaxis, chronic urticaria and drug allergy. He has led numerous research initiatives related to food allergy and anaphylaxis and secured operating as well as salary support for his research from CIHR, AllerGen NCE, Health Canada, patient advocacy organizations, and industry. His established registries resulted in over 170 publications in allergy and pediatric journals. His supervised students (more than 55 in total) have won international prizes for presentations of abstracts related to drug allergies and food allergies. Dr. Ben-Shoshan frequently engages with media as a scientific communicator with TV appearances on more than 90 TV radio/journal interviews on drug allergy, food allergy, anaphylaxis, and chronic urticaria. He is part of the board members of Food Allergy Canada and the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and has provided webinars for the lay public on drug allergy, food allergy, and chronic urticaria. Dr. Ben-Shoshan chose the Department of Pediatrics as his work can have a major impact on families, and it allows to set a child/teenager up for success.

He is on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.

Dr. Erdle is Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy & Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. Her research interests include virtual healthcare, food allergy immunotherapy (FAIT); including oral immunotherapy (OIT) and sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT), eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), and non-IgE-mediated food allergy.

Dr. Erdle is Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy & Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. Her research interests include virtual healthcare, food allergy immunotherapy (FAIT); including oral immunotherapy (OIT) and sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT), eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), and non-IgE-mediated food allergy.

Dr. Cook grew up in Victoria, and completed a Bachelor of Science degree (Biology) at the University of Victoria in 2006. Having never experienced a “real” Canadian winter, she decided to move to Edmonton where she obtained an MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Alberta in 2008. She remained at the U of A for her Medical Doctorate, which she finished in 2012. She was eager to return to the west coast, and moved to Vancouver to complete a Pediatrics Residency at BC Children’s Hospital through the University of British Columbia. She remained at UBC and BC Children’s Hospital for her Fellowship training in Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology, which she completed in June 2017.

Special interests include food allergy, primary immunodeficiency, and auto inflammatory syndromes. Dr. Cook has ongoing research projects with the Division of Allergy at BC Children’s Hospital, and she is developing a mobile tool for patients who are concerned about possible food allergy.

Dr. Cook is on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.

Dr. Ellis is Professor in the Department of Medicine with a cross-appointment to the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen’s University, having joined the Faculty in August 2008. Her position is one of a Clinician Scientist with 70% protected time for research.

She has served as the Chair of the Division of Allergy & Immunology since May 2010, and is the Director of the Allergy Research Unit of Kingston General Hospital; the flagship of this research program being the Environmental Exposure Unit (EEU), an internationally recognized and validated controlled allergen challenge model of allergic rhinitis. She is also the Co-Director of the Allergic Rhinitis Clinical Investigator Collaborative (AR-CIC), a National multi-centre network of allergic rhinitis researchers, which receives federal funding via AllerGen NCE. She is the immediate Past President of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Dr. Kim graduated from medicine at Western University and completed his training in allergy and clinical immunology in London. He is an associate professor at Western and assistant clinical professor at McMaster University. He practices in Kitchener, London and Clinton.

Dr. Kim is the past president of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and past president of the Canadian Network of Respiratory Care.

Dr. Abrams is a Professor at the University of Manitoba and holds an adjunct appointment at UBC. She is President of the Allergy Section of the Canadian Pediatric Society, Chair of the Food Allergy/Anaphylaxis Section of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and member of the Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters. She is a Senior Medical Advisor at Public Health Agency of Canada. She has a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins with a focus on health systems and policy. She has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored over 15 allergy practice guidelines through the CPS and CSACI.

Dr. Kwok is an allergist and immunologist focused on improving access to allergy care in under-resourced and cross-cultural settings. Her medical outreach work includes ongoing involvement in Nunavik, Quebec; Cree Nation communities in Quebec; and Rwanda, as well as prior clinical and volunteer experience in Angola, Ghana, Mongolia, and China. She has worked extensively across cultural and linguistic contexts, including Chinese-language clinical environments in Canada and community-based settings with international populations.

Alongside medicine, she is actively engaged in the creative arts, with a particular focus on singing and songwriting. She is a classically trained vocalist and participates also in collaborative contemporary music projects. These include Chang Ayeyi, which involved producing a music video in Ghana, and O.N.E Band / CommunauThé, a Montreal-based emerging artist community initiative.

Across both medicine and the arts, her work is shaped by a commitment to thoughtful presence, cross-cultural understanding, and community-building over time.