Author: Diane

In honor of Food Allergy + Celiac Awareness month, enter to win a Disney World getaway for 4 people and everything you need for a magical trip! 

Package includes:

 • 5 day + 4 night hotel stay

 • Airfare

 • Park passes

 • $200 Erin McKenna’s Bakery gift card

 • Food allergy travel advisor to plan your trip

 • 4 Away suitcases in your choice of color

 • Travel snacks + food from Spokin Verified Brands

 • NIMA Partners Gluten Detection Sensor, 4 boxes of capsules, travel case, and merch 

Food Prizes from: Canyon Bakehouse, 88 Acres, Enjoy Life, CHOMPS, YumEarth, The Good Crisp Company, Undercover Snacks, and Brazi Bites

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GIG is hosting an online event titled Staying Safely Gluten-Free: At Home and Beyond, May 3rd 2022 at 5pm PST/8pm EST.

SIGN UP FOR FREE TO ATTEND MAY 3rd 

In this 1-hour session, you’ll learn:  

• What cross-contact means for someone living gluten-free. 
• Ways to avoid cross-contact at home. 
• Ways to watch out for cross-contact at a restaurant, dinner party, and more. 
• How gluten exposure could happen, even when you’re careful. 
• What to do when you think you’ve been “glutened.” 

 Our panelists bring decades of experience to this conversation. 

• Dr. Joe Murray is a gastroenterologist from the Mayo Clinic. He will address the health and clinical aspects of inadvertent exposures to gluten, including how to know if it happened and what to do about it. 

• Laura Allred, Ph.D. is the Gluten Intolerance Group’s GFCO regulatory expert. She will discuss how gluten can potentially get into foods at different points in the growing, production, and manufacturing cycle and how you can ensure that the packaged foods you consume are safely gluten-free. 

• Ronni Alicia is a registered dietitian and a quality control manager at GIG/GFCO. She has extensive food service experience and will provide insights and guidance on how to stay safely gluten-free when eating at restaurants and other food service establishments. 

 The panel will be moderated by GIG’s Education Specialist,Lola O’Rourke, MS, RDN. 

SIGN UP FOR FREE TO ATTEND MAY 3rd 

The National Celiac Association and the Celiac Research Program at Harvard Medical School are co-hosting a series of 75-minute virtual meetings. Speakers present on selected topics for 60 minutes, followed by a 15-minute question-and-answer period.

The next one is titled Aging well with Celiac Disease.

From their website:

Join the National Celiac Association (NCA) and the Harvard Medical School Celiac Research Program for the third webinar in our Spring 2022 “All Things Celiac” series. Speakers will present on selected topics for 60 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for Q&A, on Thursday, April 14, 2022, from 1- 2:15 pm ET.

What are the specific medical needs and concerns of a person living with celiac disease as they age? What nutritional deficiencies are more common in the older adult and how can we address them? How shall we approach long-term care for the best outcome? Join Joseph Murray, MD, expert celiac gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and Katarina Mollo, MEd, RD, LDN, Director of Education for the National Celiac Association, as they delve into critical questions that affect each and every person living with celiac disease.

Lee Graham, executive director of the NCA, will introduce the webinar, and Ciarán P. Kelly, MD, Director of the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will moderate the session. A Q&A session will follow the presentations; please submit general questions when you register or during the webinar on the Zoom platform.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs): This course (220323-RSS) is approved by the Boston Children’s Hospital’s Continuing Education Department for 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ for physicians, 1.25 contact hours for nurses, 1.25 ACE CE continuing education credits for social workers, and 1.25 CEUs for Registered Dietitians. Instructions on how to access CEU certificates will be emailed to webinar attendees following the event.

Register now

The University of Chicago is having a webinar on Neurological and Psychological Implications in Celiac Disease. April 23, 2022 8:30am-1pm.

From their website:

Bringing together experts from around the country, this activity will offer insight into a variety of experiences and research as well as provide highlights of the most current information by experts in the field relating to the neurological and psychological implications of celiac disease. It will provide information about potential new therapies and the latest research, and it will educate participants about the future of this disease so they can provide better care to their patients.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, researchers, other healthcare professionals, and patients dedicated to improving the diagnosis and treatment of celiac disease.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Discuss the evidence-based approach to diagnosing and managing the neurological and psychological implications of celiac disease;

Identify the neurological and psychological complexities associated with celiac disease;

Describe treatment plans that can address the neurological and psychological needs of patients with celiac disease;

Name new advances in treating the neurological and psychological implications of celiac disease;

Analyze why a gluten free diet is a critical component of celiac disease treatment.

Register here.

Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University is hosting “Celiac Disease: Where are the patients and the therapies?” on April 8-9, 2022.

From their website:

A scientific program designed for those interested in the development of non-dietary therapies for celiac disease including adult and pediatric physicians, dietitians and nutritionists, scientists, industry (pharmaceutical, diagnostic, biotechnology and food and agriculture), investor/venture capitalists and patients.

Register here.

This is different from their April 1 meeting.