Welcome to Episode 7 of the Allergy mom podcast an interview with Lisa Gable, CEO of FARE (Food Allergy Research & Education)
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About Lisa Gable: Lisa Gable is the CEO of FARE.
Lisa Gable has served four U.S. presidents and two governors, counseled Fortune 500 CEOs, and represented global public-private partnerships and nonprofits with an end goal of moving organizations to higher levels of performance.
As the former President of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, Lisa created and led a coalition of food and beverage industry corporations and public health and government agencies resulting in the reduction of 6.4 trillion calories from the American diet.
Lisa was appointed the first female U.S. Commissioner General to the 2005 Aichi World EXPO, holding the personal rank of Ambassador, served as a U.S. Delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and served in the Reagan White House and Defense Department. Her corporate experience included serving as senior vice president of Global Public Policy at PepsiCo and 15 years in Silicon Valley. Among her varied volunteer activities, she has served on several boards including as a National Trustee for the Boys and Girls Club of America, a board member for Girl Scouts of the USA and as a member of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Obesity Solutions. A published writer, Gable also had recurring media appearances including four years as a regularly scheduled guest with Lifetime’s national morning program The Balancing Act.
She is a graduate of University of Virginia and holds an MA from Georgetown University.
About FARE: FARE enhances the lives of individuals with food allergies empowering them to lead safe, productive lives with the respect of others through education and advocacy initiatives and improved awareness around healthcare options and treatment.
Topics Discussed in this Episode:
- How Lisa became involved in the world of Food Allergies
- Airline Travel, Allergies and how FARE is supporting making airline travel safer for those with allergies
- The FASTER Act – The Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education & Research (FASTER) Act, H.R. 2117, S. 3451
- The Covid Pandemic & Food Labelling
- Feeding babies new foods including the major allergens early and often & BabiesFirst.org
- OIT & TIP – Oral Immunotherapy and Tolerance Induction Programs and the disparity and barriers for access to these programs
- FARE’s Patient Registry – Why U.S. citizens are encouraged to register and share their journey with allergies!
- The “Contains Courage” campaign and “Living Teal” – both programs which focus on living life with allergies (my tagline!)
- The future of research on biomarkers and precision medicine for food allergies
- Upcoming retreats – Research Retreat and Living Teal Summit – register at foodallergy.org – these will both be virtual events!
Key Takeaways:
- Leanne Mandelbaum of No Nut Traveler educated FARE about the issue of safety for airline travel for those with allergies. Lisa reached out to her networks and shares that they were starting to make great progress to help solve this problem together – support from Capitol Hill – really trying to tackle these issues for safety and ensuring that epinephrine auto injectors are available on planes. The bottom line is that FARE is committed to continuing with the progress they’ve made so far in this area!
- The Faster act – The Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education & Research (FASTER) Act, H.R. 2117, S. 3451 – looking to move forward with congress and the FDA to include sesame as the 9th priority food allergen
- Food Labelling – Lisa’s personal passion project! Research is shining a spotlight on the fact that people are avoiding foods that they could eat because they don’t understand the labels – bringing this research to light shows the need to standardize labels and to get industry to commit to market education – conversations to date are very positive and Lisa is clearly a passionate proponent of this cause and is using her industry knowledge to make headway in her advocacy efforts for our community to have safer and comprehensive food labelling practices.
- Introducing babies to new foods including common allergens – Check out BabiesFirst.org – a huge initiative (multi-million dollar initiative) to promote the message that it’s important to feed babies allergenic proteins early and often -they learned that only 30% of paediatricians have this conversation with parents about this. FARE has an advocacy program to encourage the application of the research in this area to practice. She also highlights the importance of supporting underserved communities’ access to these food protein (targeting US government programs to serve the underserved community).
- OIT – Oral Immunotherapy & programs such as TIP (Tolerance Induction Program) and the limits to accessibility of these programs – Lisa recognizes that there is disparity in who can access these programs and that it is currently limited to those with wealth and means – with these programs proliferating and growing numbers seeking these treatments, FARE recognized the need for and therefore held a summit on OIT – she talks about disparities with underserved populations and insurance coverage and access to paediatricians – the conversations have been really strong but now they are seemingly coming to a consensus that this needs to be investigated and more information and research on how this can be accessed and done so safely is needed.
- The Patient Registry – Lisa Gable encourages U.S. patients to share their journeys on the patient registry here. No one understands food allergies better than those living with them every day. Your unique experience can help researchers broaden FARE’s understanding and answer questions that will lead to important breakthroughs.
- The “Contains Courage” campaign – looking at how teens, young adults and adults live with food allergies – The Contains: Courage Campaign is a transformative five-year fundraising and awareness Campaign supporting families living with food allergies, and educating all communities about the disease. With your support, we will drive awareness, ensure that communities have the tools they need to spread the word about food allergies and raise a historic amount of funding for research, therapies and diagnostics to improve the quality of life of children and adults who are affected. Lisa shares their new campaign “Living Teal” and the initiatives that FARE is taking on surrounding living daily life with these allergies. Lisa mentions how our young adults are going to be marrying and having children and how concerns are starting to arise with questions about our young people growing up with these allergies and whether they will be passed on to their children!
- Lisa shares the positive news about partnerships and people coming together in the medical community to solve the problems of food allergies.
That is Episode 7! Thanks for listening! Check out FARE and their upcoming Living Teal™ Global Summit happening Oct. 1-3, 2020, which will virtually bring together experts, advocates, and members of the food allergy community from across the globe! I am honoured to be one of the presenters this year sharing my presentation on the importance of your own self-care as a caregiver of someone with an acute or chronic health condition such as allergies and related diseases. I would be delighted to see you there!
Also….Be sure to subscribe to the podcast if you haven’t already– there are so many amazing interviews and topics coming out in the next few weeks that I don’t want you to miss including:
- Kyle Dine of Equal Eats
- Jennifer Roberge from Itchy Little World
- Jim Garner from AllerGenis
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