2024 Lectureships
AAAAI Foundation Named Lectureships are established to recognize substantial contributions of at least $100,000 to the AAAAI Foundation through collaborative contributions of others or individual contributions honoring an individual or entity. The AAAAI Foundation leadership is proud to announce the lectureships and lectureship speakers for the 2024 AAAAI Annual Meeting.
Friday, February 23
AAAAI Foundation and Allen P. Kaplan, MD, FAAAAI Lectureship: Creating Knowledge for Our Future (5th year)
1601 Presidential Plenary: Neuroimmunology: Cross Talk Between Allergy and Other Specialties
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 1:45-3:15 PM
Lecturer: Stuart Mazzone, PhD
The Role of the Nervous System in Mediating Inflammation and Host Defense
Robert A. Cooke Memorial Lectureship
1601 Presidential Plenary: Neuroimmunology: Cross Talk Between Allergy and Other Specialties
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 1:45-3:15 PM
Lecturer: Peter Hellings, MD
Neuroimmune Mechanisms in Allergic and Non-allergic Airways Disease
AAAAI Foundation and Donald Y. M. Leung, MD, PhD-JACI Editors Lectureship and Faculty Development Award (12th year)
1601 Presidential Plenary: Neuroimmunology: Cross Talk Between Allergy and Other Specialties
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 1:45-3:15 PM
Lecturer: Brian Kim, MD, MTR
The Translational Revolution of Itch
Saturday, February 24
AAAAI Foundation and David S. Pearlman, MD, FAAAAI Lectureship: Contributing to Discovery and Education (5th year)
2101 Microbial Influences on Allergic Diseases: Friends and Foes
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 8:15-9:45 AM
Lecturer: Susan Lynch, PhD
Gut Microbiome, Industrialization and the Rise of Chronic Inflammatory Disease
Bench to Bedside: K. Frank Austen, MD, FAAAAI & Albert L. Sheffer, MD, FAAAAI Lectureship with AAAAI Foundation (5th year)
2101 Microbial Influences on Allergic Diseases: Friends and Foes
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 8:15-9:45 AM
Lecturer: Raif S. Geha, MD, FAAAAI
Skin to Gut Cross Talk: S. Aureus and Food Allergy in Atopic Dermatitis
AAAAI Foundation and Jordan N. Fink, MD, FAAAAI Lectureship (1st year)
2101 Microbial Influences on Allergic Diseases: Friends and Foes
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 8:15-9:45 AM
Lecturer: Fernando D. Martinez, MD
Bacterial and Antibacterial Interventions in Asthma Prevention and Management
Robert G. Townley Memorial Lectureship
2701 Keynote Lecture: Roles of Neuronal TRP Channels in Neuroimmune Interactions: Relevance to the Allergist/Immunologist
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 3:30-4:30 PM
Lecturer: Laura Van Gerven, MD, PhD
Recent Updates on the Link Between RSV Infection and Asthma
AAAAI Foundation and Richard F. Lockey, MD, MS, FAAAAI & USF A/I Program Lectureship and Award (5th year)
3521 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and Asthma: Associations, Mechanisms and the Potential Impact of Vaccines
Convention Center, Level 3, Ballroom A, 12:30-1:30 PM
Lecturer: Tina Hartert, MD, MPH
Recent Updates on the Link Between RSV Infection and Asthma
AAAAI Foundation and John W. Yunginger, MD, FAAAAI Memorial Lectureship (4th year)
3521 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and Asthma: Associations, Mechanisms and the Potential Impact of Vaccines
Convention Center, Level 3, Ballroom A, 12:30-1:30 PM
Lecturer: Stephania Cormier, PhD
Mechanisms Between RSV Infection and Asthma
AAAAI Foundation and Robert F. Lemanske, Jr., MD, FAAAAI Lectureship (4th year)
3521 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and Asthma: Associations, Mechanisms and the Potential Impact of Vaccines
Convention Center, Level 3, Ballroom A, 12:30-1:30 PM
Lecturer: Flor Munoz-Rivas, MD, MSc
RSV Vaccines: Current Status and Future Potential to Influence Asthma
Sunday, February 25
Hugh A. Sampson Lectureship in Food Allergy
3101 The Link Between Metabolic and Allergic Diseases
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 8:15-9:45 AM
Lecturer: David Artis, PhD
Bacterial and Antibacterial Interventions in Asthma Prevention and Management
AAAAI Foundation and Michael M. Frank, MD, FAAAAI Lectureship (5th year)
3101 The Link Between Metabolic and Allergic Diseases
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 8:15-9:45 AM
Lecturer: Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD
Polarization of the Immune Response by Metabolic Pathways
Phil and Barbara Lieberman and Friends Faculty Development Award and Lectureship with AAAAI Foundation (10th year)
3101 The Link Between Metabolic and Allergic Diseases
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall D, 8:15-9:45 AM
Lecturer: Fernando Holguin, MD, MPH
Metabolic Disease as a Driver of Asthma
Monday, February 26
AAAAI Foundation and Harold S. Nelson, MD, FAAAAI Lectureship: Investing Together in Our Future (5th year)
4101 New Insights into Development and Treatment of Asthma
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall E, 9:30-11:00 AM
Lecturer: Carol Ober, PhD
Epigenetic Patterning in the Development of Allergic Asthma
Elliot F. Ellis Memorial Lectureship
4101 New Insights into Development and Treatment of Asthma
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall E, 9:30-11:00 AM
Lecturer: Elizabeth Matsui, MD, MHS, FAAAAI
Recent Advances in Non-Pharmacologic Therapies for Asthma
AAAAI Foundation and Isil Berat Barlan Memorial Lectureship (3rd year)
4101 New Insights into Development and Treatment of Asthma
Convention Center, Level 2, Hall E, 9:30-11:00 AM
Lecturer: Ayobami Akenroye, MD, MPH
Pharmacoequity in Eligibility for Biologics in Patient in Allergic Disease