Anna Nowak-Węgrzyn, MD is an associate professor of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology. She received her M.D. degree from N. Copernicus Academy of Medicine in Cracow, Poland. She completed a 3-year training program in allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and joined the Division of Allergy and Immunology and the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai. Her research interests focus on egg and milk allergies, food-induced anaphylaxis in children, novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to food allergy, oral tolerance development, and in particular food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome. Dr. Nowak-Węgrzyn has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. She has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences. She served as the President of the New York Allergy and Asthma Society in 2010 and has been a member of the Society’s executive committee for the past 15 years. She served as the Chair of the Adverse Reactions to Foods Committee of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology from 2013-2015 and is the current Secretary of FADDA, AAAAI. She is also the chair of the Medical Advisory Board for the International FPIES Organization.