“My professional and personal worlds collided when my one-year-old daughter had a severe allergic reaction to peanut butter. I experienced firsthand what the families of my allergy patients were feeling.” Today’s woman dreamer, Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and the Founding Director of the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR), is world-renowned for her groundbreaking research in the areas of food allergy and asthma epidemiology. For Women’s Health Wednesday, she shares her expertise on all things allergies, and her strong passion for the field.