Mast cell activation syndrome: An immune system stuck in self-Defence
Webinar 17 Aug, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM (AEST)
Assaults on our immune system in our current era come from many directions; industrial chemical toxicant burdens, biotoxin accumulation from harmful moulds, chronic and recurrent infective burdens, dysbiotic microbiomes, endothelial dysfunction, psychological stress, and these to name only a few. The many and growing environmental threats amount to, in up to 17% of the population cited in recent studies, an auto-inflammatory illness known as Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), characterised by excessive cytokine signalling in response to perceived biological threats.
Understanding how to recognise, diagnose, and treat MCAS underpins an area of medicine essential to meaningfully intervening in our immune-sensitive, multi-system inflamed patient cohort.
Learning outcomes
- Identify MCAS in general practice patients in Australia (including clinical presentation, symptoms, signs, and diagnosis).
- Outline an integrative approach to MCAS management.
- Explore underlying aetiology of MCAS
Educational Activities
1.0
hours
Facilitators
Dr Tamara Nation
MBBS PhD FRACGP FACNEM
Dr Tamara Nation believes that good health lays the foundations to a more fulfilled life and that we are all on our own individual health journeys.
She has a special interest in integrative medicine and is the current chair of the RACGP Integrative Medicine SIG. Tamara is also a Medical Educator and is passionate about ongoing learning for current and future GPs to provide holistic evidence based medicine to the communities served.
Dr Inanch Mehmet
Deputy Chair, RACGP Specific Interests Integrative Medicine
Dr Eric Miller
Deputy Chair, RACGP Specific Interests Integrative medicine
Dr. Eric R. Miller is an American-Australian MedTech entrepreneur and physician specialising in Family Medicine, Rural Emergency Care, and Functional & Integrative Medicine. He has practiced across Australia, Great Britain, and the United States.
As CEO and co-founder of Innovarius, he leads the development of non-invasive electroceutical therapies. He holds a Master’s in Health Policy and Health Economics from the London School of Economics and has completed AFMCP training through the Institute for Functional Medicine. A member of Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, he was named 2024 Runner-up for the Brighthope Foundation Scholarship.
Eric's approach focuses on precision, root-cause care, combining conventional and integrative therapies to deliver personalised, whole-person treatment and empower patients along the wellness spectrum. Eric is current Deputy Chair RACGP Specific Interests Integrative medicine
Speaker
Dr Nicholas Morgan
B.Med, F.RACGP, F.ACNEM, Dip.TM&H
Dr Nick Morgan is an Integrative Medical Practitioner committed to the ever-evolving study of environmental drivers to inflammatory illness. After graduating medical school in 2014, he went on to obtain a Diploma of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in Liverpool, UK in 2018, then a RACGP GP Fellowship. Following this, personal health circumstances motivated him to delve into the multiple imbalances that can ensue in the setting of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome. Further study in mast cell immunology, chronic infections, gut microbiome, and bioidentical hormones all proved essential in providing the tools necessary to address the chronic inflammatory effects of ME/CFS and other chronic inflammatory illnesses.