Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. announced the establishment of a Scientific Advisory Board comprised of eight allergy experts. The Scientific Advisory Board includes eight allergy experts as follows: David Bernstein, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Medicine in the Division of Immunology and Allergy at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine where he is co-director of the Allergy Fellowship training program. He is a former Principal Investigator of a training grant for 3 funding cycles through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

He has been engaged in the practice of Allergy and Clinical Immunology for the past 40 years. Major research interests of Dr. Bernstein include new therapies for asthma and allergic disorders, environmental causes of asthma, allergen immunotherapy and occupational asthma. Carlos Camargo, MD, is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medicine, and Epidemiology at Harvard University, and the Conn Chair in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He founded and leads the Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet). Dr. Camargo also works on the role of nutrition in respiratory/allergy disorders, both in large cohort studies and in randomized controlled trials. He is past president of the American College of Epidemiology, and has worked on several U.S. guidelines, including those on diet, asthma, and food allergy.

David Fleischer, MD, is currently the Section Head of Allergy & Immunology at Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO) and a Professor of Pediatrics at CHCO and the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Allergy and Immunology Center at CHCO. Dr. Fleischer's primary clinical interest is food allergy.

His research has focused on the natural history of food allergy and novel treatments for food allergy, including oral, sublingual, and epicutaneous immunotherapies. David Golden, MD, did his medical training at McGill University, and his fellowship in Allergy-Clinical Immunology at Johns Hopkins University. He is now an Associate Professor of Medicine (part-time) at Johns Hopkins, where he directed a program of research studies on insect sting allergy and anaphylaxis for 30 years.

Dr. Golden is a co-chair of the Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters for allergy, and on the editorial boards of several major allergy journals. He established a private group practice in Baltimore that has been recognized for academic quality and superior patient care. He is also Division chief for Allergy-Immunology at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, and Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, where he developed an Allergy-Immunology curriculum and teaching program for the medical residents.

Matthew Greenhawt, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics Section of Allergy and Immunology at Children's Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and is the Director for the Children's Hospital Colorado Food Challenge and Research Unit in Aurora, C.O. Dr. Greenhawt earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, M.A. He then completed his residency in pediatrics at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, N.Y. and his fellowship in allergy/immunology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He also holds an MBA from Tufts University and a MS degree in health and healthcare policy from the University of Michigan, Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Greenhawt is board certified in pediatrics and allergy/immunology.

Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Clinical Attending at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Dr. Gupta has 17 years of experience as a board-certified pediatrician and health researcher and currently serves as the founding director of the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR). She is world-renowned for her research in the areas of food allergy and asthma epidemiology, most notably for her research on the prevalence of pediatric and adult food allergy in the United States.

She has also significantly contributed to academic research in the areas of food allergy prevention, socioeconomic disparities in care, and the daily management of these conditions. Jay Lieberman, MD, is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and a practicing physician at LeBonheur Children's Hospital. There he serves as the acting allergy fellowship training program director and as the principal investigator for numerous clinical trials in the field of allergy focusing on food allergy.

He is the current chair of the food allergy committee for the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, is co-chair of the Joint Task Force for Practice Parameters, and serves on the executive board for the American Board of Allergy and immunology. John Oppenheimer, MD, is the Director of Clinical Research at Pulmonary and Allergy Associates as well as Clinical Professor of Medicine at UMDNJ-Rutgers. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Allergy and Immunology.

He serves as the executive editor of the Annals of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, co-section editor of Current Reports of Allergy and Immunology, Current Opinion of Allergy and Immunology and serves as a reviewer for several journals including the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and JAMA. He is presently the liaison to the American Board of Internal Medicine for the ABAI and a member of the ABIM council. He has focused his career on guideline development and has been actively involved in measurement development in the field of allergy and immunology.