Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Series
This series will consist of short videos featuring knowledgeable guests on topics of interest to the FITs. Topics to vary from science-based, practical work-related and AAAAI association-related information. Recordings will be about 15-30 minutes in length. If applicable, supporting handouts will also be posted.
If you have any questions about series or recordings below, please contact the FIT Committee staff liaison, Mari Durán, at mduran@aaaai.org.
June 2026: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Specific Antibody Deficiency in an Age of Prevnar 20/21 by Benjamin T. Prince, MD, MSci, FAAAAI, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Division Chief of Research for the Division of Allergy and Immunology, and Immunology Director of the multidisciplinary Hemo-Immuno-Lymphoproliferative (HILP) Clinic, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH.
May 2026: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Their First Attending Job by Stella Hartono, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
April 2026: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Venom Allergy by John C. Carlson, MD, PhD, FAAAAI, Allergist and Medical Entomologist, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA.
February 2026: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Food Immunotherapy by Edwin Kim, MD, FAAAAI, Associate Professor and Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
January 2026: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Contact Dermatitis by Basil M. Kahwash, MD, FAAAAI, Allergist/Immunologist, Ohio ENT & Allergy Physicians, Columbus, OH.
December 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Maximizing Early Career Success, Time Management, and Efficiency in Practice by Christine Panganiban, MD, MS, FAAAAI, Allergist/Immunologist, Hoag Medical Group, Orange County, CA.
November 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Hereditary Alpha Tryptasemia (HAT) by Jonathan Lyons, MD, Professor of Medicine at University of California San Diego, Allergy and Immunology Division, San Diego, CA.
October 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Choosing an Allergy/Immunology Career by Rebecca Scherzer, MD, FAAAAI, Professor of Pediatrics and Fellowship Program Director at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
September 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Starting or Joining an Allergy / Immunology Practice by Priya Bansal, MD FAAAAI, Allergist / Immunologist on the faculty of Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine practicing at the Asthma and Allergy Wellness Center in Saint Charles, IL.
August 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Healthcare Disparities by Carla M. Davis, MD, FAAAAI, Chair of Pediatrics and Child Health at Howard University College of Medicine, President-Elect of the AAAAI. Additional Resources:
July 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About AI in Allergy / Immunology by Paneez Khoury, MD, MHSc, FAAAAI, Senior Clinician, Director of Allergy & Immunology Fellowship Training Program, Laboratory of Allergic Diseases (LAD) Head, Eosinophil Clinical Research Unit, Human Eosinophil Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases (LPD)
June 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Advocacy by Lynda G. Kabbash, MD, FAAAAI, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Practicing Allergist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, AAAAI Advocacy Committee Chair and AAAAI Delegate of the American Medical Association.
May 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Wellness by Theresa A. Bingemann, MD, FAAAAI, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and Program Director for the Allergy and Immunology fellowship at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY.
April 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Genetic Testing in A/I by Michael Keller, MD, Pediatric Immunologist and Associate Professor at Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC. Additional resource for this session.
March 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Getting Published in Allergy and Immunology by Michael Schatz, MD, MS, FAAAAI, Allergy Department at Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center, Past President of the AAAAI and founding Editor in Chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.
Additional resource for session: https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/pb-assets/Health%20Advance/journals/jaip/Author_Guide_Being_Published_in_JACI.IP-1681911682910.pptx
February 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Personal Finance by Vinay Mehta, MD, FAAAAI, Allergist with the Allergy & Asthma Associates of Southern California.
January 2025: Top Five Things FITs Should Know About Using Social Media Professionally by David R. Stukus, MD, FAAAAI, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy/Immunology at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus Ohio, first Social Media Medial Editor for the AAAAI, and Former Producer and Host of AAAAI Podcast Series Conversations From the World of Allergy.
December 2024: Top Five Things FITs Should Know about RVUs presented by Vivian P. Hernandez-Trujillo, MD, FAAAAI, Director of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Miami Children’s Hospital/Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Program Director of the Nicklaus Children's Hospital Allergy and Immunology training program, and Chair of the AAAAI Practice Management Committee.
November 2024: Top Five Things FITs Should Know about Asthma and Pregnancy presented by Natasha Correa, MD, Vaccines and Medications in Pregnancy Surveillance System (VAMPSS) FIT representative.
October 2024: Top Five Things FITs Should Know about Choosing and Joining Associations presented by Sheila Heitzig, JD, MNM, CAE, Director of the Practice and Policy Division, AAAAI.