Infectious Diseases Guest Speaker

This event is hosted by the University of Arizona Division of Infectious Diseases:

TOPIC: "Evaluation of Penicillin Allergy"
SPEAKER: Tara Carr, MD

WHERE: COM-T 5120
WHEN: Monday, December 16, 2019 | 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

About the Speaker: Dr. Carr is a Board Certified Allergist/Immunologist with extensive specialty training in the evaluation and treatment of allergic and immunologic diseases in both children and adults. After attending medical school at the University of Virginia, she completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Allergy/Immunology at Northwestern University in Chicago. Since joining the faculty of the University of Arizona in 2011, she has established and leads the clinical Adult Allergy and Asthma Program and Allergy/Immunology Fellowship Program, supports pediatric and adult respiratory clinical research within the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, participates in steering committees of national clinical research networks including AsthmaNet and the ALA-ACRC, and established our center as an inaugural member of the Food Allergy Research and Education Clinical Network. She holds a joint faculty appointment of Associate Professor of Medicine and Otolaryngology and is a scientist in the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center. As a clinician, she is passionate about treating patients with asthma, sinusitis, food allergy and all allergic/immunologic diseases. As a scientist, she is focused on understanding the heterogeneity of allergic disease pathogenesis and therapeutic outcomes.