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2 Special Supplement, May 2023 • Canadian Allergy & Immunology Today A B O U T T H E A U T H O R S Anne K. Ellis, MD, MSc, FRCPC Dr. Anne K. Ellis is a Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Division of Allergy & Immunology at Queen's University. She holds the James H. Day Chair in Allergic Diseases and Allergy Research. She is the Director of the Environmental Exposure Unit and the Allergy Research Unit at Kingston General Hospital. She is the current Vice President of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and serves on the Joint Task Force for Practice Parameters, representing the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. Paul K. Keith, MD, FRCPC Dr. Paul Keith is a Professor of Medicine and Director in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. Jean-Nicolas Boursiquot, MD, FRCPC Dr. Jean-Nicolas Boursiquot completed his medical degree and internal medicine specialty at Université Laval. He then completed postdoctoral training in clinical immunology and allergy at McGill University. He holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Montreal and is currently working as an allergist and clinical immunologist at the CHU de Québec, where he also teaches residents in the allergy and immunology program. He was director of the Continuing Professional Development Committee of the Québec Association of Allergists and Immunologists. In 2016, he participated in the adaptation of the ''Guide complet des allergies'' published by Éditions Edito. Bruno Franc ur, MD Dr. Bruno Francœur is a general practitioner practicing in Trois-Rivières, Québec. He recently joined Syneos Health as an Executive Medical Director. His background includes expertise in family medicine, respiratory disease evaluation (asthma/ COPD), evaluation of allergy tests, urticaria evaluation and clinical research. Since 2016, he has participated in numerous phase II to phase IV studies as an investigator, co-investigator and/or assistant medical director. He has also supervised residents during his family medicine internship, while working as an emergency physician. Amin Kanani, MD, FRCPC Dr. Amin Kanani is a Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine at the University of British Columbia and the Head of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at St. Paul's Hospital and University of British Columbia. Dr. Kanani completed his medical degree at McGill University. He then went on to complete Internal Medicine training at UBC and Clinical Immunology and Allergy Fellowship Training at the University of Toronto. He has held several leadership positions including President of the BC Society of Allergy and Immunology, Board of Directors for the Canadian Hereditary Angiœdema Society, and Interim Program Director for the UBC Allergy and Clinical Immunology training program. His clinical and research interests include chronic urticaria, hereditary angiœdema and primary immunodeficiency.

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