Meetings for ASCIA Trainee Members

ASCIA Associate Trainee online video meetings

TAILS (Trainees In Allergy and Immunology Lecture Series)

TAILS is an online problem based learning education series held approximately every two months, which aims to bring together clinical immunology/allergy consultants and trainees from across Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. TAILS was initiated by Dr Aimee Huynh (QLD) and Dr Liam Beiglari (NSW) and commenced in late 2023.

Videos of TAILS meeting presentations held since March 2024 are available on the ASCIA website:

https://www.allergy.org.au/members/postgraduate-education (this webpage can only be viewed by ASCIA members when logged in).

In 2025, TAILS meetings are chaired by Dr Paul Satouris and Dr Dr Tiarni Templeton, and held on the 4^th Thursday of the month at 1830-1930 AEDT/AEST. The schedule is as follows:

Thursday 27 Feb - 'aHUS and Complement Disorders' with Dr Theo De Malmanche
Thursday 27 Mar - 'Transplant in Inborn Errors of Immunity' with Dr Peter McNaughton
Thursday 24 Apr - 'Non-IgE Food Reactions' with Dr Kahn Preece
Thursday 5^th Jun - 'Aeroallergen Immunotherapy' with Dr Timothy West
Thursday 26 Jun - 'Nut Allergy and Emerging Treatments' with Dr Michael O'Sullivan
Thursday 24 Jul - 'Topic TBA' with Dr Isabelle Bosi
Thursday 25 Sep - 'Hereditary Angioedema' with Prof Connie Katelaris AM
Thursday 23 Oct - 'Private Practice as an Immunologist' with Dr Alex Headley
Thursday 27 Nov - 'Immunobullous Diseases' with A/Prof Ming-Wei Lin

Why we are doing this and what we hope to achieve:

ASCIA Associate Trainee members asked for more education
The format has been chosen to reduce presentation fatigue and focus on learning rather than spending hours preparing presentations
We aim to create a long lasting and ongoing education series for trainees that persists into the future

The format:

1 hour of your time
15 minutes trainee led case presentation
20 minute consultant teaching on the topic
Remainder of the hour to discuss questions and problem based learning

In 2024 the following TAILS meetings were held:

Thursday 29 Feb - Venom Allergy - Dr Bronte Jeffrey and Dr Cecilia Zubrinich
Thursday 28 Mar - Interstitial Lung Disease in Connective Tissue Disorders - Dr Michael Fitzgerald and Dr Karuna Keat
Thursday 23 May - Basic Laboratory Interpretation of Flow Cytometry - Dr Gabriella Graves and Dr Laine Hosking
Thursday 15 Aug - Chronic Granulomatous Disease - Dr Abigail Hudson and Dr Jovanka King
Thursday 26 Sep - Drug Allergy and Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reactions (SCAR) - Dr James Yun and Dr Liam Beiglari
Thursday 28 Nov - Immunology Update from ESID - Dr Shruti Swamy and Dr Gemma Kwan

ASCIA Annual Clinical Grand Rounds

Each year ASCIA hosts its annual Clinical Grand Rounds (CGR) as part of the ASCIA Annual Conference. Submission of ASCIA CGR cases is limited to advanced trainees in allergy/immunology.

ASCIA Associate (Trainee) members are also encouraged to register and submit poster abstracts for ASCIA Annual Conferences, to further their knowledge in all areas of clinical immunology and allergy. For more information go here.

ASCIA Annual Conference Poster and CGR prizes are listed here.

ASCIA Advanced Training Meetings 2007-2023

The next ASCIA PID (APID) meeting is scheduled for May 2026, directly after the TAPID 2026 meeting in Melbourne.

2023, 30 April-2 May - ASCIA Immunodeficiency Training Meeting - Manly NSW
2022, 18 June - ASCIA Allergy, PID and Autoimmunity Advanced Training Meeting - Manly, NSW
2019, 26-30 May - ASCIA PID (APID) Advanced Training Meeting - Manly NSW
2018, 8 September - ASCIA Autoimmunity Update - Canberra ACT 2018 ASCIA (held n conjunction with the ASCIA 2018 Conference)
2017, 29-30 July - ASCIA Environmental Allergy Meeting and Private Practice Workshop - Sydney NSW
2016, 24-28 July - ASCIA PID (APID) Advanced Training Meeting - Melbourne VIC
2015, 12 September - ASCIA Autoimmunity Update - Adelaide SA
2014, 2-4 May - ASCIA Allergy Advanced Training meeting - Manly NSW
2013, 12-16 May - APPID Summer School - Manly NSW
2012, 1-2 June - ASCIA Autoimmunity Advanced Training Meeting - Sydney NSW
2011, 6-7 May - ASCIA Allergy Advanced Training Meeting - Sydney NSW
2010, 9-13 May - APPID Summer School - Hobart TAS
2009, 9 May - ASCIA Autoimmunity Advanced Training meeting - Manly NSW
2008, 10 May - ASCIA Allergy Advanced Training meeting - Blue Mountains NSW
2007, May - APPID Summer School - Port Douglas, QLD

Participation in the ASCIA Primary Immune Deficiency (PID) Advanced Training meetings (previously known as Summer Schools) is restricted to current ASCIA Associate (Trainee) members or recently qualified clinical immunology/allergy specialists, who have not previously attended these meetings. Information from the APID training meeting in May 2019 is on the ASCIA website www.allergy.org.au/conferences/advanced-trainees/apid

It is our intention that ASCIA Associate (Trainee) members participate in at least one Advanced Training Meeting during advanced training, or soon after completion of advanced training.

Prior to 2007 it had been almost a decade since the last ASCIA Advanced Training Meeting had been held. We are grateful to Dr Joanne Smart, Dr Karl Bleasel and Professor Dominic Mallon for initiating the ASCIA Advanced Training meetings which have now been held since 2007.