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 on the 4th Thursday of the month at 1830-1930 AEDT/AEST except for January and December. The aim of TAILS 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.

In 2025, TAILS meetings are chaired by Dr Paul Satouris and Dr Tiarni Templeton, and the schedule is as follows: 

• Thursday 27 February - 'aHUS and Complement Disorders' presented by Dr Theo De Malmanche
• Thursday 27 March - 'Transplant in Inborn Errors of Immunity' presented by Dr Peter McNaughton
• Thursday 1 May - 'Non-IgE Food Reactions' presented by Dr Kahn Preece
• Thursday 5 June - 'Aeroallergen Immunotherapy' presented by Dr Timothy West
• Thursday 26 June - 'Nut Allergy and Emerging Treatments' presented by Dr Michael O'Sullivan
• Thursday 24 July- 'Topic TBA' presented by Dr Isabelle Bosi
• Thursday 28 August - 'Non-malignant Eosinophilia' presented by Dr Yeri Ahn
• Thursday 25 September - 'Hereditary Angioedema' presented by Prof Connie Katelaris AM
• Thursday 23 October - 'Private Practice as an Immunologist' presented by Dr Alex Headley
• Thursday 27 November - 'Immunobullous Diseases' presented by 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 February - 'Venom Allergy' presented by Dr Bronte Jeffrey and Dr Cecilia Zubrinich
• Thursday 28 March - 'Interstitial Lung Disease in Connective Tissue Disorders' presented by Dr Michael Fitzgerald and Dr Karuna Keat
• Thursday 23 May - 'Basic Laboratory Interpretation of Flow Cytometry' presented by Dr Gabriella Graves and Dr Laine Hosking 
• Thursday 15 August - 'Chronic Granulomatous Disease' presented by Dr Abigail Hudson and Dr Jovanka King 
• Thursday 26 September - 'Drug Allergy and Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reactions (SCAR)' presented by Dr James Yun and Dr Liam Beiglari
• Thursday 28 November - 'Immunology Update from ESID' presented by 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.

• 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.

Information about advanced training 

A career in Clinical Immunology and Allergy

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Content updated May 2025