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 (FPIES). 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 and has led the international effort to write the first Consensus Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of FPIES, published in 2017.
In addition,she is an Associate Editor for the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn as the 2022 Chair of the ABAI Board of Directors.
Dr. Nowak-Wegrzyn has served on the ABAI Board of Directors with distinction since 2017. While on the Board she has served in the following roles: • Blueprint Committee
• Certification Examination Co-Chair
• Conjoint Standards Committee – Chair
• Executive Committee Secretary
• Finance and Audit Committee Member
• Nominating Committee Member
• Personnel Committee – Chair
• Personnel Committee Member
• Sub-Committee for Part IV Activities for Physician Investigators and Academic Leaders
• Vice-Chair Elect
• Vice-Chair
ABAI and all diplomates are honored to have her lead the board as Chair in 2022.
- Director, Pediatric Allergy Program
- Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Lang-one
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Education
- Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, allergy and immunology, 2000
- Residency: University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, pediatrics, 1997
- Internship: Uniwersytecki Szpital Dzieciecy, Pediatrics, 1994; University of Maryland Baltimore, Children’s Hospital, pediatrics, 1995
- Medical Education: Collegium Medicum , Jagiellonian University, Medicine, 1990
- Graduate School: Collegium Medicum , Jagiellonian University, Medicine, 1990
- Affiliations
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Professor Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn,
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e-mail: Anna.nowak-wegrzyn@nyulangone.org