Investigator

Elinor Simons

MD PhD FAAAAI

  • Accepting Students: No
  • Research Category: Childhood Diseases

Contact

Current Positions

Assistant Professor, Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, U of Manitoba
Clinician Scientist, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba
CHILD Cohort Study Manitoba Site Lead
COVID-19 Immune Task Force Hybrid Immunity Study Manitoba Lead
Section Head, Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health
Director, Children’s Allergy & Asthma Education Centre (CAAEC)

Education

PhD in Clinical Epidemiology, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
MSc in Epidemiology, State University of New York at Albany, USA
Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, American Board of Allergy & Immunology
Pediatrics Residency, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI, USA; American Board of Pediatrics
Doctor of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
BSc in Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
BSc With Distinction, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Research Focus

CHILD Cohort Study 12-year visits in progress
- dietary and environmental predictors of peanut and other food allergies
- gender shift in asthma
- asthma and obesity/adiposity
Clinical cohorts of children with food allergies
- natural history and evaluation of dietary and environmental
High-risk asthma cohort - natural history
Eczema Education and management of severe eczema for prevention of sensitization

Research Interests

- Pediatric allergic conditions and environment
- Epidemiology of childhood food allergy
- Asthma and obesity
- Asthma and gender shift