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Dr Sheryl van Nunen OAM FRSN MBBS MM (Sleep Medicine), Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, is a Clinical Professor, Northern Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney; and Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney; a consultant physician in allergic diseases at Northern Beaches Hospital, Sydney, Australia, and a Visiting Medical Officer at Northern Beaches and North Shore Private Hospitals. She has over 200 publications to her credit (25% published 2018-2023),

Sheryl is a clinician and medical educator who in 1987 found and then first described the association between mammalian meat anaphylaxis and prior tick bites in 2007. Her research interests comprise mammalian meat allergy/anaphylaxis following previous tick bite and its myriad implications (including its increased burden of coronary artery disease), tick-induced anaphylaxis and, with her colleagues in Vietnam, has over a decade-long interest in research into pharmacogenetic risk factors in severe cutaneous drug reactions in the Vietnamese people.

Sheryl is a member of the Leadership Group & Co-chair Insect Allergy Stream of the National Allergy Centre of Excellence (Australia), Director, National Asthma Council Australia Board and Convenor, TiARA (Tick-induced Allergies Research & Awareness) www.tiara.org.au.

In January 2021, she was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to Medicine, particularly to Clinical Immunology and Allergy. In August 2022, she was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society (NSW). In June 2023, she was awarded The Surgeon General John White Medal “for service to health in its many forms”.