From the Asst. Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services:

The purpose of this letter is to extend a personal invitation for you to attend the 2008 State of Illinois Food Allergy Awareness Week Campaign Kick-Off Event. The Campaign Kick-Off event is scheduled to take place on Monday, May 12, 2008, at […]

WGN RADIO AM 720 will air a three day Food Allergy Series on Wed. April 30, Thursday May 1, and Friday May 2 at 7:00am, 5:00pm and 11:00pm. Children Memorial’s Dr. Jacqueline Pongracic, Dave, Denise, Bryan and Daniel Bunning as well as many others were interviewed for this piece. We hope many have the chance […]

Our Monday, January 14th, 2008, meeting at Highland Park Hospital from 7-9 PM will include us showing the Edible Enemies DVD and then having open time for questions. As always, we are lucky to have Christine Szychlinski, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from Children’s Memorial, at our meetings.

Next Meeting - Monday, 11/12/07

7:00-8:00PM: Watch the dvd “When Food Kills”
8:00-9:00PM: Share favorite snacks, restaurants and recipes and time for open question and answer.

Food Allergies make cover of Newsweek - More than a year ago, a reporter from Newsweek magazine began working on a story on food allergies. While it took a very long […]

Our next Meeting will be Monday Jan. 8th 7-9 PM at Highland Park Hospital. Our speaker will be Dave Bunning, who will speak about the research on food allergies around the country and how the Food Allergy Project is continuing to encourage the government to increase the Federal resources for food allergy research. You’ll […]

We will have author Kim Koeller at our Monday Nov. 13th Meeting at 7PM at Highland Park Hospital. You will also have the opportunity to buy her book if you don’t have it yet as well.
Please check out below website, her book has won the 2006 award.
www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,9217.shtml
We will see you then!
Denise and Anne

MOCHA’s Cheat & Eat dinner group will be meeting on Monday, October 23 at 7pm. We are going to try something new this month. We will be going to Panera Bread for dinner, snacks, or just to hang out with the group.
This is a great way to meet other members and speak […]

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! We are VERY excited to have Kim Koeller be our speaker for the upcoming Monday, November 13th, 2006 MOCHA meeting. We will have all of our info out on tables for you to look at from 7:00-7:15PM. Kim will begin her presentation at 7:15. If you are new- you can also bring […]

The next meeting of MOCHA-Chicago will be Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the CMH Outpatient Center, 2515 N. Clark Street, Deming Building-7th floor conference room.
The topic will be: “An evening with MOCHA-Chicago medical advisor, Jennifer Kim, M.D.” Dr. Kim will discuss current information on the prevalence of food […]

Dear Asthma Advocates,
If you are receiving this message, I know that you care about lung disease-especially the increasing cases of asthma that affects the Chicagoland Collar Counties. One of our Hospital Sponsors this year is Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, which provided me with these alarming statistics:
In 2005, there were 146,281 admissions, not […]