WAO Centers of Excellence
WAO Centers of Excellence (WCOE) intensify and accelerate multidisciplinary scientific and clinical innovation, education, and advocacy worldwide providing excellence in education, research, training to various stakeholders in allergy, asthma and clinical immunology.
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Africa, Middle East, & CIS
- Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Al- Rashed Allergy Center (Kuwait City, Kuwait): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Children’s Chest and Allergy Clinic, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital (Pretoria, South Africa): 2020 Center of Excellence
- Adult Allergy and Immunology Section, Hamad Medical Corporation (Doha, Qatar): 2020 Center of Excellence
- Meir Medical Center (Tel Aviv, Israel): 2018 Center of Excellence
- SHEBA Medical Center (Ramat Gan, Israel): 2023 Center of Excellence
- University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center (Be'er Ya'akov, Israel): 2020 Center of Excellence
Asia-Pacific
- Ajou School of Medicine (Suwon, Korea): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Allergy, Immunology, and Microbiome (A.I.M.) Research Center/China Medical University Children’s Hospital (Taichung, Taiwan): 2022 Center of Excellence
- The Centre for Food and Allergy Research (CFAR) (Parkville, Australia): 2020 Center of Excellence
- Division of Allergy and Clinical immunology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj, Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand): 2022 Center of Excellence
- The Allergy Center in Hiroshima University Hospital (Hiroshima, Japan): 2020 Center of Excellence
- KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Translational Immunology Institute (Singapore): 2023 Center of Excellence
- National Center for Child Health & Development (Tokyo, Japan): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Osaka Habikino Medical Center (Osaka, Japan): 2020 Center of Excellence
- The Royal Children’s Hospital and The Murdoch Children's Research Institute (Melbourne, Australia): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Sagamihara National Hospital (Sagamihara, Japan): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Seoul National University Hospital (Seoul, Korea): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (Singapore): 2023 Center of Excellence
Europe
- The Academic Center of Allergic Diseases, Erasmus MC (Rotterdam, The Netherlands): 2020 Center of Excellence
- Allergy Centre of the CUF Descobertas Hospital (Lisbon, Portugal): 2016 Center of Excellence
- Allergy and Clinical Immunology Center, Hospital Dona Estefânia (Lisbon, Portugal): 2020 Center of Excellence
- Allergy Center Hessen (Marburg, Germany): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Allergy Research Centre Antwerp University Hospital (ARCUZA) (Edegem, Belgium): 2020 Center of Excellence
- Allergy Section at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Bichat Hospital Allergology Center (Paris, France): 2020 Center of Excellence
- Center for Basic and Clinical Immunology (CISI) (Naples, Italy): 2016 Center of Excellence
- Centre for Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (AACI) (Birmingham, United Kingdom):2020 Center of Excellence
- Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal): 2019 Center of Excellence
- Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal): 2019 Center of Excellence
- CK-CARE: Alpine Allergy Campus (Davos, Switzerland): 2016 Center of Excellence
- Comprehensive Allergy Center Charité (CACC), (Berlin, Germany): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Department of Allergy. Clínica Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (Milan, Italy): 2020 Center of Excellence
- Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli (Rome, Italy): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (London, England): 2016 Center of Excellence
- Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Pediatric Allergy Division (Ankara, Turkey): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (Barcelona, Spain): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Humanitas University & Research Center (Milan, Italy): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Imperial College London/Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust (London, England): 2022 Center of Excellence
- “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department 2. Functional Sciences (Cluj-Napoca, Romania): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Landspitali-the National University Hospital of Iceland, Department of Immunology (Reykjavik, Iceland): 2023 Center of Excellence
- Medical University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Medical University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria): 2018 Center of Excellence
- National Kapodistrian University of Athens (Athens, Greece): 2023 Center of Excellence
- Regional University Hospital of Malaga - Allergy Department (Malaga, Spain): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Southampton Allergy Centre (Southampton, England): 2014 Center of Excellence
- São João University Hospital Center (Porto, Portugal): 2019 Center of Excellence
- UCLouvain Allergy Center (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium): 2020 Center of Excellence
- University Hospital of Montpellier (Montpellier, France): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Verona University Hospital (Verona, Italy): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Vitebsk State Order of Peoples’ Friendship Medical University (VGMU) (Vitebsk, Belarus): 2020 Center of Excellence
Latin America
- Allergy and Immunology Unit - Child Institute - Clinical Hospital University of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Centro Regional de Alergia Inmunologia (Monterrey, Mexico): 2016 Center of Excellence
- Centro Medico Nacional Siglo - Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (Mexico City, Mexico): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Center for Research in Allergy and Immunology (CPAI) of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) (Recife, Brazil): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Clinical Hospital University of Chile (Santiago, Chile): 2019 Center of Excellence
- Clinical Immunology and Allergy Division of the Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil): 2023 Center of Excellence
- Federal University of Parana (Curitiba, Brazil): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Group of Clinical and Experimental Allergy (GACE) (Medellin, Colombia): 2016 Center of Excellence
- Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez (Mexico City, Mexico): 2016 Center of Excellence
- Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins (Lima, Peru): 2020 Center of Excellence
- Institute for Immunological Research (Cartagena, Colombia): 2016 Center of Excellence
North America
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Penn Medicine (Philadelphia, PA, United States): 2018 Center of Excellence
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center / University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH, United States): 2022 Center of Excellence
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (New York City, NY, United States): 2022 Center of Excellence
- The Center for Asthma and Sinus Disease at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) (San Diego, CA, United States): 2020 Center of Excellence
- The Duke Asthma Allergy and Airway Center (Durham, NC, United States): 2023 Center of Excellence
- The Hospital for Sick Children Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Program (Toronto, ON, Canada): 2023 Center of Excellence
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center (Baltimore, MD, United States): 2023 Center of Excellence
- McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada): 2022 Center of Excellence
- The Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center at The University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor, MI, United States): 2022 Center of Excellence
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center / Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, OH, United States): 2019 Center of Excellence
- Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, IL, United States): 2023 Center of Excellence
- Scripps Clinic Allergy Centre (San Diego, CA, United States): 2023 Center of Excellence
- Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, United States): 2018 Center of Excellence
- University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (Rochester, NY, United States): 2019 Center of Excellence
- University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine (Tampa, Florida, United States): 2016 Center of Excellence
