Carla Irani is an Associate Professor of Medicine at St Joseph University. She is also a practicing clinician at Hotel-Dieu De France in Beirut. She completed her internal medicine residency at Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ, USA, followed by an allergy and clinical immunology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Dr Irani also completed a Master of Clinical Epidemiology degree from the American University of Beirut.

Dr Irani’s clinical interests span asthma and allergy across both adult and paediatric medicine. She has a broad range of research interests and has published several papers in journals including the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology on topics including the impact of pollution on allergic rhinitis, chronic urticaria and food allergy.

Dr Irani is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the President of the Lebanese Society of Allergy and Immunology. She is also an editorial board member for the International Archives of Allergy and Immunology.