Recent ESP Initiatives

Margarita Island, Venezuela
June 2008
Allergy Training Workshop

The Emerging Societies Program (ESP), a joint initiative of the WAO and the ACAAI, in partnership with SLAAI, CMICA and COMPEDIA, successfully conducted its inaugural Allergy Training Workshop as a pre-Congress event of the XV Latin American Congress on 19-20 June. The main objectives of the workshop were:

• To ensure that general healthcare providers learn about and understand basic information for diagnosing and managing patients with allergy and allergic diseases, and use this knowledge in their clinical practice
• To build capacity of local allergists to train GPs and Pediatricians in the identification, treatment and management of allergy and allergic diseases

The Allergy Training Workshop welcomed as participants, doctors from:

The Planning Committee and Faculty were comprised of representatives from all partners:

WAO would like to congratulate and thank all the participants and partners for a most successful program.