Recent ESP Initiatives

Bangkok, Thailand
December 2007
Aeroallergen Workshop and Post-Graduate Course

The Emerging Societies Program (ESP), in collaboration with the West Pacific Allergy Organization (WPAO) offered an extensive, one day aeroallergen workshop and post-graduate course during the World Allergy Congress 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand on 6 December 2007. The schedule for the day included:

Hands-on training workshops:

• Skin Testing
• Peak Flow Use
• Spirometry
• Epinephrine Administration

Aeroallergen Symposium

• Presentations on Current Aeroallergen
  • o Projects in Member Countries
  • o How to express your data
  • o Discussion and Questions

Postgraduate symposium on major topics in allergy

• Immune Mechanisms in Allergy
• Rhinoconjunctivitis
• Pediatric Asthma
• Adult Asthma
• Skin Allergy - Chronic Uriticaria
• Discussion and Feedback Session

Together, WAO and WPAO financially sponsored nine ESM delegates' attendance to this meeting. The delegates included:

Faculty Included: