Clinical Trials

The purpose of this study is to use samples from multiple patients to validate and provide detailed mapping of food to identify allergen epitopes.  This will provide crucial data to the study of the molecular basis of food allergy.

Our long term aim is identify unique microbiota associated with allergic disease, esp. food allergies and its association with allergic disease state (persistence of food allergies Vs. outgrowth of food allergies) which in turn will facilitate the use of probiotics to decrease the disease burden of allergic diseases.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the rate of compliance for having an emergency epinephrine autoinjector readily accessible in adults with allergies, and to determine factors that negatively influence adults with allergies for having an emergency epinephrine autoinjector readily accessible.

The goal is to assess the criterion and predictive validity of the diagnostic criteria for anaphylaxis proposed by the 2nd Symposium on the Definition and Management of Anaphylaxis. Determination of the clinical utility of the diagnostic criteria is essential for the criteria to be widely adopted into clinical practice.  Prospectively, the NIAID/FAAN criteria continued to be highly sensitive (95%) but had lower specificity (71%) than on retrospective assessment. These criteria are likely to be useful for the diagnosis of anaphylaxis in the ED.