Let's focus on food-allergy prevention | Dr. Kari Nadeau | TEDxPaloAlto
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Dr. Kari Nadeau |
TEDxPaloAlto
• April 2018
Learn from Stanford doctor and leading expert in allergy treatment and prevention Dr. Kari Nadeau how you can stop allergies early in life.
Dr. Kari Nadeau is the Naddisy Foundation Endowed Professor of Pediatric Food Allergy, Immunology, and Asthma at Stanford University and also the director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research. For more than 30 years, she has devoted herself to understanding how environmental and genetic factors affect the risk of developing allergies and asthma and the molecular mechanisms underlying the diseases.
As one of the nation’s foremost experts in adult and pediatric allergy and asthma, Dr. Nadeau's research is laying the groundwork for a variety of potential future therapies to prevent and cure allergies and asthma.
Dr. Nadeau received her MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and a clinical fellowship in asthma and immunology at Stanford and at University of California, San Francisco. Her research and scientific breakthroughs have been covered in Lancet, JAMA, Nature Medicine, US News and World Report, New York Times Magazine and Discover Magazine, as well as other national and international media.
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