Food Allergy Fund Summit
New York City • Paley Center for Media • April 4, 2019
Thank you for joining us for the inaugural Food Allergy Fund Summit featuring leading doctors and scientists, celebrity chefs, politicians, entrepreneurs, and advocates for a day of learning, raising awareness, and funding research. We’re excited to share all of the programming from the Summit below.
Food Allergy Fund Mission
Panels
Research Presentations
Entrepreneur Pitches
9:00 am: Welcome Remarks, Food Allergy Fund Mission & Impact
Emcee: Linsey Davis, ABC News Correspondent
Ilana Golant, Founder & CEO, Food Allergy Fund
9:05 am: Inaugural Food Allergy Fund Innovators Research Grant Announcement
9:15 am: Research Presentation I
Dr. Linda Herbert, Director, Psychosocial Program,
Division of Allergy & Immunology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
9:20 am: Research Presentation II
Dr. Xiu-Min Li, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College
9:30 am: Innovators Rocket Pitch
Abigail Barnes, Co-Founder and CEO, Allergy Amulet
Javier Evelyn, Founder & CEO, Alerje
Jim Garner, CEO, AllerGenis
Susie Hultquist, Founder & CEO, Spokin, Inc.
Daniel Zakowski, CEO, Ready. Set. Food!
10:00 am: Remarks from Congressman Ro Khanna, U.S. Rep. from California's 17th congressional district
10:10 am: Power of Parents to Create Change
Chris Cillizza, CNN Politics Reporter and Editor-at-Large
Georgina Cornago Cipriano, Food Allergy Advocate & Educator
Dr. Haidi Demain, Founder & Medical Director, Allergy Safe Kids
Lianne Mandelbaum, Founder, No Nut Traveler
11:00 am: Networking Break
11:10 am: Research Presentation III
Dr. Ruchi Gupta, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
11:15 am: Research Presentation IV
Dr. Hugh Sampson, Director Emeritus, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai; CSO & Interim CMO, DBV Technologies
11:25 am: Future of Food Allergy Research
Sarah Schenck, Co-Director & Producer, Missing Microbes
11:55 am: Food for Thought
Katherine Miller, Vice President, Impact, James Beard Foundation
Elizabeth Falkner, Food Network & Bravo Contributor; Fmr. President, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs
Amanda Freitag, Food Network Host; Judge, Chopped; Co-Host, American Diner Revival
Ming Tsai, Author & Restaurateur; Host, PBS' Simply Ming
12:55 pm: Closing Remarks