Dr Susan Waserman is a Professor of Medicine, Director of the Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy at McMaster University and the Adverse Reactions Clinic at the Firestone Institute of Respiratory Health, St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton.
Dr Waserman is extensively involved in medical education in both academic and community settings, in addition to an active hospital-based clinical practice in adult and pediatric Clinical Immunology and Allergy. Activities include practice guidelines in food allergy, allergic rhinitis, hereditary angioedema and urticaria. Her research interests are focused on mechanisms of peanut allergy and its treatment. She is President of the Canadian Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Foundation and past President of the Canadian and Ontario Societies of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.