Dr. Järvinen-Seppo is a physician-scientist, Professor and the Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology and holds the inaugural Founders' Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Allergy at the University of Rochester. She is the Director of the Center for Food Allergy, which is a multidisciplinary program that provides comprehensive care to families with food allergies including specialists in allergy, gastroenterology, dermatology, and dietetics, and includes a clinical and translational research program in food allergy and Center of Excellence of Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) and GA2LEN ANACARE Center.

Her clinical interests are focused on various types of food allergy, including IgE-mediated food allergy, eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease, food protein-induced enterocolitis, and allergic proctocolitis, as well as atopic dermatitis.

She directs an NIH-funded translational research program focused on developmental aspects of the infant systemic and mucosal immune system relating to development of food allergy and atopic dermatitis in early childhood. She is particularly interested in the role of maternal and agrarian lifestyle factors and breast milk composition in shaping the early infant immune system and uses human cohorts, clinical trials and laboratory bench research approaches to answer the mechanistic questions.

She is a member of the American Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (AAAAI), European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and an Executive Board member of the International Society of Research on Human Milk and Lactation. She is also an advisor to Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) and iFPIES.

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