Dubai Final-v20.indd - World Allergy Organization

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ruby Pawankar
President Elect, WAO
Conference Organizing
Chair
WAO IntErnAtIOnAl ScIEntIfIc cOnfErEncE
Asthma and Co-morbid Conditions: Expanding the Practice of Allergy for Optimal Patient Care
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to Dubai and the World Allergy Organization’s 1st international scientific Conference!
the theme of this Conference, “Asthma and Co-morbid Conditions: Expanding the Practice of Allergy for Optimal Patient Care,” is
one that, as President of the WAO, i have promised to promote through research and education. As a member of the worldwide
specialty of allergy, asthma and clinical immunology, i would like to encourage a culture in which allergists/immunologists are first
knowledgeable primary care physicians, internists, and pediatricians, and then specialists. Physicians trained in this way should
be able to provide patients with more complete, cost-effective care for asthma and allied allergic and immunologic diseases. they
should be able to diagnose and treat co-morbid conditions. thus, the theme of this Conference is to capture and reflect this vision.
Your participation in this inaugural event will help transform this vision of how we manage allergic diseases into everyday practice.
i wish you a most successful Conference.
richard F. lockey
President, World Allergy Organization (WAO)
On behalf of the WAO Board of Directors
Dear Friends,
We join richard lockey in warmly welcoming you to this meeting. it has been a most rewarding experience organizing this Conference
and developing its scientific program. We are confident that as a participant your experience will be equally energizing for you. the
scientific and educational program is designed to provide a forum for the latest research, reviews of current theory and practice, and
importantly, “hands-on” problem-based learning. it is our hope, that as practitioners, educators, and researchers, you will take away
from this Conference valuable insight into the most effective advances in the diagnosis and management of asthma and its comorbidities
as well as broader aspects of related allergic disorders to meet the challenges of the global unmet needs in this area.
We want to take this opportunity also to thank the exceptionally skilled and committed faculty who are a truly international and
versatile group. A majority of the faculty is presenting more than once covering different session-types and several co-morbidities
– demonstrating in this range the true meaning of the theme of this Conference: “Asthma and Co-morbid Conditions: Expanding the
Practice of Allergy for Optimal Patient Care”.
An equally important part of learning occurs outside the sessions when we have the important opportunity to meet up with
colleagues to exchange ideas, make new connections and continue old conversations. We hope you will do plenty of all this. Please
share with us your feedback and ideas so that we can continue to promote excellence in the field of allergy and asthma.
Once again: Welcome!
sincerely,
g. Walter Canonica
Past President, WAO
Executive Chair,
scientific Program
Committee
Eric Bateman
Co-Chair,
scientific Program
Committee
Stephen T. Holgate
member-at-large,
WAO Board
Co-Chair,
scientific Program
Committee
robert lemanske
Co-Chair,
scientific Program
Committee
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