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Main Conference Programme: Earn up to 17 CPD Points
Where Allergy Meets Non-Allergy: 14 - 16 August 2026, Century City, Cape Town, South Africa.
EARN 14 CLINICAL POINTS WITH 3 ETHICAL POINTS (SUNDAY SYMPOSIA) = UP TO 17 CPD POINTS IN TOTAL
This CPD-accredited meeting reflects the evolving reality of clinical practice, where allergic disease sits at the intersection and interacts daily with respiratory, environment and occupational health, as well as skin, mental, endocrine, metabolic and gut medicine.
The conference will feature traditional focused plenary, named lectures, but have expanded expert panels and highly interactive case-based sessions to improve audience interaction and ensure both scientific and practical questions are addressed to improve patient care. Tracks will cover skin, lung, food and occupational allergic disease, as well as inborn errors of immunity.
The congress organisers have dedicated a full morning to two ethics workshops. Both will focus on contemporary clinical ethical dilemmas and feature expert speakers to set the scene, followed by interactive panel and audience discussions. Designed to be both engaging and clinically relevant, it will provide a valuable opportunity to learn from experienced experts and peers while also meeting your continuing professional development requirements during the conference weekend. Earn up to 3 Ethical Points.
| FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| TIME | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
| 08:00 – 10:00 | Registration and exhibitors | – |
| 08:30 – 09:30 | Sponsored Breakfast Symposia – Precision Allergy Diagnostics in a Changing Environment: How Molecular Allergy Testing Improves Patient Care in South Africa. (Sponsored by Diagno Health) |
Dr Constantine Konstantoulas |
| 10:00 – 12:30 | Respiratory Disease and the Environment | Chairs: Dr Tamara Kelberker, Prof Jonny Peter |
| 10:00 – 10:40 | Allergen immunotherapy in a changing environment – Eugene Weinberg Lectureship | Dr Dana Wallace |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Air pollution and childhood asthma | Prof Aneesa Vanker |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Heat and asthma – what is known, where are we heading and what can we do? | Prof Rajen Naidoo |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Panel discussion: Indoor and outdoor SA environments and asthma – what is coming and what do we need to do? | Moderators: Prof Mohamed Jeebhay / Prof Jonny Peter |
| Indoor pollutants: Exposures and monitoring | Dr Joy Leaner | |
| Smoking/Vaping and asthma | Prof Richard van Zyl-Smit | |
| Air quality data for communities | Dr Joy Leaner | |
| Pesticides and occupational toxins | Prof Aqiel Dalvie | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Light lunch | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Latest treatments in HAE and what does the future hold for LMIC access – Paul Potter Lectureship | Prof Philip Li |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Is it occupational allergy or not – case studies in occupational medicine. | Dr Itumeleng Ntatamala |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Immunotherapy: The broader context, Oncology, T‑cell targeting strategies and Uroimmune and bactek (RTI) | Prof Jonny Peter |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Coffee/Tea break and exhibits | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Allergy Olympics | Prof Mike Levin and Dr Pieter de Waal |
| 17:30 – late | Cocktail party / dinner / drinks in exhibition hall | |
| 17:30 – late | Welcome and formalities | |
| SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2026 | ||
| TIME | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
| 07:30 – 08:30 | Sponsored Breakfast Symposia – The atopic patient: modifying their disease trajectory and striving for remission. (Sponsored by Sanofi) |
Dr Ahmed Ismail Manjra |
| 08:30 – 13: 00 | Plenary 2 | Chairs: Dr Sarah Karabus & Dr Candice Royal |
| 08:30 – 08:50 | Evidence, Emotion, and Algorithms: Communicating Food Allergy Risk in the Real World – Cas Motala Memorial Lectureship | Dr David Stukus |
| 08:50 – 09:10 | Food allergy sensitisation patterns in South Africa: What is driving change? | Prof Mike Levin |
| 09:10 – 09:30 | Food additives & epithelial barrier disruption: Global and SA perspectives | Dr Pieter De Waal |
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Food Allergy in emerging African regions – what is happening? | Prof Elham Hossny |
| 09:50 – 10:45 | Panel discussion – All things food and allergy in SA | All speakers + Ms Idonette van Zyl |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee/Tea break and free poster walk | |
| 11:15 – 11:35 | Patient advocate Toni Morkel shares her eczema journey and introduces her play, Cottonwool Kid | Ms Toni Morkel |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Supporting the mental health of people living with chronic allergic disease | Dr Nicola Dugmore |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Panel Discussion: Living with Eczema in South Africa – challenges, support needs, and the way forward | Prof Mike Levin, Dr Nicola Dugmore, Dr Suretha Kannenberg, Ms Lynne Niemann |
| 12:45 – 12:55 | Introduction to the Atopic Eczema Patient Advocacy Group | Ms Lynne Niemann |
| 12:55 – 13:00 | AFSA Competition Prize Draw | AFSA Team |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Light lunch | |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Case discussions – 8 cases (15 minutes each) with clinical pearls | Chairs: Dr David Stukus, Prof Elham Hossny, Dr Thulja Trikamjee, Dr Dana Wallace, Dr Evelyn Ng’ang’a |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Poster and Abstract Presentation Session | Facilitated by Prof Jonny Peter |
| SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2026 | ||
| TIME | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Sponsored Breakfast Symposia – From ARIA to Everyday Practice: Practical Allergic Rhinitis Management in South Africa. (Sponsored by Glenmark Pharmaceuticals) | Dr Marinda McDonald |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Interactive ethics case discussions and clinical pearls | Prof Sharon Kling, Dr Di Hawarden, Prof Debbie White, Prof Keymanthri Moodley, Ms Leigh Meinert, Ms Kelly Hawarden |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Interactive group discussions: Real ethical dilemmas in allergy practice | Prof Sharon Kling, Dr Di Hawarden, Prof Debbie White, Prof Keymanthri Moodley, Ms Leigh Meinert, Ms Kelly Hawarden |
Disclaimer: The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the conference programme, including speakers, session topics, presentation times, and venues, should circumstances require. Every effort will be made to keep delegates informed of any updates. While all reasonable care has been taken in compiling the programme, the organisers accept no responsibility for any errors, omissions, or changes that may occur.
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