Rethinking Food Allergy: Accurate Diagnosis, Evidence-Based Anaphylaxis Management, and Biologic Integration
- Speaker:
- Sonal Patel, MD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Jun 16, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS078991
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
- Evidence-based epinephrine prescribing and anaphylaxis management updates
- Practical integration of biologics and oral immunotherapy principles
- Diagnostic strategies that prevent overdiagnosis and unnecessary food avoidance
- Comorbidity optimization (asthma, atopic dermatitis) to reduce severe reaction risk
- Shared decision-making tools to improve adherence, safety, and patient confidence
Food allergy management has evolved rapidly from strict avoidance alone to early introduction with an active, individualized, and pharmacology-driven approach. Primary care clinicians are often the first to diagnose suspected food allergy, prescribe epinephrine, counsel families, and coordinate specialty referrals. However, significant practice gaps remain in diagnostic interpretation, risk stratification, biologic therapy integration, and patient education leading to both overdiagnosis and under-treatment.
This advanced, clinically practical session equips nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians with up-to-date prescribing strategies for acute anaphylaxis management, maintenance therapies, and comorbidity optimization. You will strengthen the ability to interpret diagnostic testing appropriately, avoid unnecessary elimination diets, select and counsel on epinephrine devices, understand the evolving role of biologic therapy such as omalizumab, and implement shared decision-making strategies that improve outcomes and patient confidence. Leave with actionable tools that can be applied immediately to practice.
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Speaker
Sonal Patel, MD Related seminars and products
Sonal Patel, MD, is a clinical allergist and immunologist with over 20 years of experience caring for patients across the lifespan. She practices at the Huntington Asthma and Allergy Center in Pasadena, California, and previously spent 11 years at Adventist Health White Memorial. Her community commitment extends beyond the clinic through participation in international medical missions to Peru, El Salvador, and Mexico.
She has devoted many years to teaching and mentoring internal medicine residents and medical students - many of whom have gone on to become practicing allergists - served as faculty for MedStudy internal medicine board review courses. Dr. Patel currently serves as President of the California Society of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology and is immediate past President of the Los Angeles Society of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology.
She is a double board‑certified physician in Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Pediatrics, completed her fellowship in Clinical Allergy and Immunology at the UCLA School of Medicine, and holds a Master of Science in Clinical Research from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sonal Patel has employment relationships with Huntington Asthma & Allergy Center and Kids and Teens Medical Group. She serves as a consultant for AristaMD and RubiconMD. Dr. Patel is an allergist with Kaiser Permanente and receives speaking honoraria from Sanofi, Genentech, GSK, and Regeneron. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Dr. Sonal Patel is a member of the American Academy of Allergy and the American College of Allergy.
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Outline
Food Allergies: Acute Management and Anaphylaxis Pharmacology
- Recognition of IgE-mediated reactions in ambulatory settings
- Epinephrine auto-injectors: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, dosing, device selection
- Common prescribing errors and delayed administration
- Adjunctive medications: Appropriate role and limitations
- Risk stratification: Asthma, adolescents, prior severe reactions
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Diagnostics That Drive Prescribing Decisions
- Sensitization vs clinical allergy: Preventing overdiagnosis
- Interpreting skin prick testing and serum specific IgE appropriately
- Indications and safety considerations for oral food challenge
- When reassurance is appropriate vs when to refer
- Risks of unnecessary elimination diets and nutritional consequences
- Limitations of current diagnostic tools and evidence gaps
Maintenance Therapies, Biologics, and Comorbidity Optimization
- Oral immunotherapy: Principles, safety profile, adverse effects
- Biologic therapy (omalizumab): Indications, patient selection, integration into care
- Coordinating management in patients with asthma and atopic disease
- Shared decision-making in preference-sensitive treatment pathways
- Monitoring, safety, and real-world implementation challenges
- Limitations of emerging therapies and long-term outcome uncertainties
Objectives
- Analyze clinical history, diagnostic testing, and comorbid conditions to select evidence-based pharmacologic management strategies for patients with suspected or confirmed IgE-mediated food allergies.
- Integrate acute anaphylaxis treatment, maintenance therapies including biologics, and shared decision-making principles to improve safety, prescribing confidence, and patient-centered outcomes in food allergy care.
- Evaluate diagnostic accuracy and testing appropriateness to differentiate true IgE-mediated food allergy from non-immune adverse food reactions, reducing overdiagnosis and unnecessary dietary restriction.
Target Audience
Physicians
Physician Assistants
Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
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