Mona-Rita Yacoub is coordinator of the Allergological Area at the Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergology and Rare Diseases Unit of the San Raffaele Hospital IRCCS, directed by Professor Lorenzo Dagna.

After graduating in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan in 2002, he specialized in Allergology and Clinical Immunology at the University of Pavia in 2006. After obtaining a master's degree in Biomedical Sciences, Clinical Research option at the University of Montreal in 2006, undertaken as part of a one-year Fellowship, obtained a PhD in Molecular Medicine at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in 2012.

From a clinical point of view, Dr. Yacoub carries out outpatient visits in the context of the following pathologies:

• drug allergy, including severe exfoliative dermatitis, contrast media and chemotherapy allergy
• respiratory allergy: rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyposis, asthma, with particular experience in the field of bronchial inflammation and severe asthma, with multidisciplinary discussion of complex cases (board Allergology, Immunology, OtoRinoLaringoiarina - AIORL)
• food allergy, even in the multidisciplinary clinic food allergies / intolerances together with colleagues from gastroenterology if the manifestations are mainly gastrointestinal (link to the news)
• anaphylaxis
• chronic spontaneous urticaria, angioedema
• Atopic dermatitis
• mastocytosis and mast cell activation syndrome
• follow-up of severe allergic diseases (asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis, urticaria, atopic dermatitis) in therapy with biological drugs

In addition to this, the doctor provides allergy consultations to hospitalized patients. It also deals with desensitization to chemotherapy and monoclonal drugs.

As regards the research activity, the doctor is particularly involved in the study of biomarkers in patients suffering from severe asthma with possible comorbidities (nasal polyposis) and of diamino oxidase in patients with gastrointestinal disorders. It also focuses on the characterization of risk factors for the development of severe hypersensitivity reactions to drugs, including chemotherapeutics and on the study of the mechanisms underlying severe allergic reactions to drugs such as DRESS (drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms), Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis.

She is author and co-author of 47 scientific publications in national and international journals. She constantly participates as a speaker at national and international sector conferences.