Physician Viewers Learn About Food Allergy on CME Webcast. On this CME webcast, we’re going to bring all of you up to date about food allergies. First, to tell us about non- IgE mediated food allergies is Ohio State University Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and also allergist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Dr. Margaret Redmond. And then to tell us about IgE mediated food allergies is Dr. Benjamin Prince who is also an allergist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.

View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: DEFINE IgE-mediated food allergy and review risk factors for its development; and DEFINE anaphylaxis and demonstrate the proper technique for using an epinephrine auto-injector.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Food allergy signs and symptoms
• Epidemiology of food allergies
• Epinephrine auto-injectors

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

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