FAAI stands for Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - the foremost professional organisation for allergy and immunology in the United States and one of the most respected globally. The AAAAI sets the standards for allergy practice and education that are used as international benchmarks by allergy practitioners around the world. Holding FAAI status alongside an MS ENT qualification is unusual anywhere, and particularly rare in Rajasthan. For a patient seeking ENT care in Ajmer, what it means in practice is that the allergy evaluation I perform - the skin prick testing, the interpretation of specific IgE results, the decisions about allergen immunotherapy candidacy and protocol - is conducted to an internationally recognised standard rather than to a locally variable one. The Advanced Course on Diagnosis of Allergy and Immunotherapy that I have also completed gives me the specific clinical competency framework for evaluation and treatment that allows me to offer allergen immunotherapy safely and effectively at ENT Care Clinic. In Ajmer, this level of allergy specialisation within an ENT practice means patients with complex allergy-related ENT conditions do not need to travel to larger cities for specialist allergy evaluation and treatment.
Written by Dr. Sushma Charan Singh, MBBS, MS ENT/Otorhinolaryngology, FAAI (Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology), Advanced Course on Diagnosis of Allergy and Immunotherapy, ENT Specialist and Otorhinolaryngologist, ENT Care Clinic, A-193, Haribhau Upadhyay Nagar, Ajmer, Rajasthan 305004. Phone: +91 6376482141.
