Background

Having completed specialist training in Paediatric Allergy in 2006, he spent 9 years as clinical lead of Allergy at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London – Europe’s largest specialist Allergy service, recognised as an International Centre of Excellence by both the World Allergy Organisation and GALEN (European Asthma & Allergy Network). He is now Clinical Director for Specialist Ambulatory Medicine and a Reader in Paediatric Allergy.

He chaired the UK Department of Health National Care Pathway for Food Allergy in Childhood and was a member of the National Institute of Healthcare and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines development group for the assessment and diagnosis of food allergy in children. He is also the senior author of the Milk Allergy in Primary Care guideline. He currently chairs the Paediatric Committee of the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology and has been elected as President from October 2018.

He was awarded ‘Paediatric Allergist of the Year’ from Allergy UK in 2007. His doctoral thesis on peanut allergy received the Raymond Horton Smith prize from Cambridge University in 2012 and he was included in The Times ‘Britain’s 100 Best Children’s Doctor’s’ (2012). He received the William Frankland Award for Outstanding contribution to Allergy by the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology in 2015 and a National Clinical Excellence award from the UK Department of Health in 2016.

Training

He read Medicine and Neuroscience at Cambridge University before completing his clinical training at University College, London. He completed specialist training in Paediatric Allergy in 2006, having rotated between St Mary’s, the Royal Free and Great Ormond Street hospitals to work in Paediatric Allergy, Gatroenterology & Dermatology.

Clinical interests and areas of expertise

Food allergy including gastrointestinal allergy, desensitisation to food and enviromental allergies, eczema and hayfever.

Research interests

He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles in many high impact journals. Active research interest in food allery and desensitisation.