Anne Ellis

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About Anne Ellis

Dr. Ellis is Professor and Chair of the Division of Allergy & Immunology in the Department of Medicine at Queen's University. She holds a cross-appointment to the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences. Her role is one of a Clinician Scientist with approximately 70% protected time for research. She is the Director of the Environmental Exposure Unit, a controlled allergen challenge model of allergic rhinitis, and is an Investigator within the AllerGen Networks of Centres of Excellence. Within this research network, she is the Co-Director of the Allergic Rhinitis Clinical Investigator Collaborative (AR-CIC), a multi-centre Canadian network of researchers trained in standardized direct nasal allergen challenge for use in clinical trials. In 2011 she assumed the role of the Chair of the Division of Allergy & Immunology. She is also a regular Attending Physician of Allergy & Immunology at Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital, as well as in Internal Medicine at Kingston General Hospital and a Consulting Physician at St. Mary's of the Lake Hospital. Her research interests are primarily linked to the treatment and pathophysiology of allergic rhinitis, but she also has established a prospective birth cohort with cord blood collection to determine potential biomarkers of future atopy. Her research activities in epigenetics provides a unique link between these two areas of interest. Specialties: Allergy & Immunology; Internal Medicine