Alessandro Fiocchi
Alessandro Fiocchi MD is the Director of Allergy at the Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Vatican City. Formerly director of Pediatrics at the Melloni University Hospital in Milan, Italy, he’s an expert in the field of food allergy. After post-graduate degrees and professional qualification in pediatrics, allergy, pulmonology, and neonatology, he dedicated his research and clinical work to the care of children with asthma and allergic disease. Currently, he leads a research group focusing on food allergy, asthma, and specific immunotherapy. This group is based in the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital (OPBG) a health care and research institution specialized in pediatric and developing ages. The largest Pediatric Hospital in Italy, OPBG guarantees total coverage for all health care needs, including allergy.
Since 2001, he has organized international meetings in Milan, Italy, and other countries. He founded the Italian Research Foundation for Allergy and Asthma in Childhood – Allegria ONLUS, a charity dedicated to clinical and research studies. As chair of the Adverse Reactions to Foods Committee of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, he co-chaired with Sami Bahna and Amal Assa’ad several International Food Allergy Symposiums, the last in Anaheim, November 2012. He also co-chaired with Hugh Sampson the WAO Food Allergy Symposium in Bangkok, 2007, and in Buenos Aires, 2009. Starting in January 2008, Dr. Fiocchi is the chair of the Special Committee on Food Allergy of the World Allergy Organization. Under his chairmanship, WAO published the DRACMA guidelines on cow’s milk allergy in 2010 and the CUPPA position paper on the use of probiotics in pediatric allergy. He’s also the leader of the WAO – supported GLAD-p (GuideLines for Allergy Prevention) project, which published three guidelines so far (Probiotics, 2015; Prebiotics, 2016; Vitamin D, 2017). DRACMA is being be re-edited. His publications cover the fields of food allergy diagnosis, follow-up, epidemiology, specific immunotherapy and childhood asthma.
TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS
2017 – 2023: Teaching qualification for Paediatrics. Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) - national scientific qualification to function as Associate Professor in Italian Universities. Italian National Scientific Qualification (art.16 of the law 30 December 2010, n.240) – sector 06/G1, Paediatrics.
MEETING ORGANIZATION
Adverse Reactions to Bovine Proteins – Changing Patterns, Mechanisms and Treatment – in cooperation with the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. Alessandro Fiocchi & Patrizia Restani, co-chairs - 13 – 15 December 2001, Milan Italy
XI International Food Allergy Symposium – Sami Bahna & Alessandro Fiocchi, co-chairs – held in conjunction with the annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, November 7th – 12th 2003.New Orleans, LA, November 6th, 2003
Allergy and eczema – in cooperation with the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. Alessandro Fiocchi & Patrizia Restani, co-chairs – 23-24 January 2004, Milan Italy
The management of pediatric allergy: in whose hands? – from bench to bedside. In cooperation with the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Alessandro Fiocchi & Patrizia Restani, co-chairs – 20-21 January 2006, Milan Italy
The 11th Annual Meeting od the Italian Society for Pediatric Respiratory Diseases – Angelo Barbato & Alessandro Fiocchi, co-chairs - 21st –23rd June, 2007, Milan Italy
The World Allergy Organization. World Allergy Congress 2007, 2nd-6th December 2007. Food Allergy Symposium. Hugh Sampson & Alessandro Fiocchi co-chairs, December 6th 2007, Bangkok Thailand.
XIII International Food Allergy Symposium – Sami Bahna & Alessandro Fiocchi, co-chairs – held in conjunction with the annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, November 5th – 11th 2009. Miami Beach, FL, November 11th, 2009
Adverse Reactions to Bovine Proteins – Changing Patterns, Mechanisms and Treatment – II cooperation with the World Allergy Organization. Alessandro Fiocchi & Patrizia Restani, co-chairs 4th – 6th February 2010, Milan Italy
The 6th Milan Meeting. The management of paediatric allergy: not everybody’s cup of tea. In cooperation with the World Allergy Organisation and the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. Alessandro Fiocchi, Chair – 11th-12th February 2012, Milan Italy
XIV International Food Allergy Symposium – Amal Assa’ad, Sami Bahna & Alessandro Fiocchi, co-chairs – held in conjunction with the annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, November 4th – 13th 2012. Anaheim, CA, November 5th, 2012
The 1st Rome Meeting. EBM prevention and management of pediatric allergy. In cooperation with the World Allergy Organisation and the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. Alessandro Fiocchi, Chair – 29th-30th January 2015, Rome, Italy
WAO Symposium: Hot Topics in Allergy: Pediatric and Regulatory Aspects. Ignacio Ansotegui, Sergio Bonini, Walter Canonica, Paolo Rossi, Mario Sanchez Borges, Alberto Martelli Scientific Committee. Alessandro Fiocchi, chair. Rome, 27th – 29th April, 2017
WAO Symposium: Allergic disease from…. to. From the mechanisms to the organs. From infancy to adulthood. From mild to severe. Motohiro Ebisawa, Mario Sanchez Borges, Ignacio Ansotegui, Francesca Levi-Schaffer, Luis Caraballo, Luciana Kase Tanno, Michael Levin, Bryan Martin, Mario Morais Almeida, Giovanni Passalacqua, Gary Wong, Anahi Yanez Scientific Committee (virtual WISC). Rome, July 16th -18th, 2020
