AN ONLINE CLINIC ON FOOD ALLERGY
Patient charity Action Against Allergy (AAA) and Allergy Academy have teamed up with NHS Choices and talkhealth to present an Online Clinic on Food Allergy.
Clinical experts will be available to answer questions about issues surrounding food allergies, what to do if you or someone else has a reaction and to provide you with valuable help and guidance.
Our experts have a wealth of knowledge and information they can share with you. You can post your questions for the experts anytime from now until the clinic finishes and from 21 - 27 February 2012 when the clinic is running you can enter into discussions with the experts when they answer your questions.
Dr Adam Fox Adam read Medicine and Neuroscience at Cambridge University before completing his clinical training at University College, London. Having completed specialist training in Paediatric Allergy in 2006, he is now a consultant and joint clinical lead of Allergy at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London. Adam is the chair of the Department of Health commissioned RCPCH National Care Pathway for Food Allergy in Childhood and part of the National Institute of Healthcare and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guideline development group for assessment and diagnosis of food allergy in children. He is also meetings secretary of the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology and was awarded ‘Paediatric Allergist of the Year’ by Allergy UK in 2007. Adam’s particular interests are food allergy, immunotherapy and medical education. His clinical role involves the management of children with multiple allergic disease including food allergy, asthma and rhinoconjunctivitis as well as children with difficult eczema where food allergy plays a role.
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Dr Helen Brough Dr Helen Brough graduated from King’s College, Cambridge University in Medicine with Honours and completed her medical training at the Royal Free and University College London Medical School. She trained in Paediatrics on the South London Paediatric Rotation and at Northwick Park Hospital. During this time she published a medical book for students called Rapid Paediatrics and Child Health published through Wiley-Blackwell Publishing (now in second edition). Dr Helen Brough is now a Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London and a honorary Specialist paediatric Registrar in Paediatric Allergy at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital. She was awarded Health Professional of the Year runner up in 2010 by Coeliac UK. In addition to her clinical involvement treating children with allergies, Dr Brough is actively involved in cutting edge research at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital. Her main research area is looking into how children become allergic to peanut so as to find ways to prevent this. This work is supported by a research grant from the charity Action Medical Research and forms part of her PhD at King’s College London University. Dr Brough teaches Medical and Biomedical Science students at Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine as well as Paediatricians in training. She is also a regular speaker at educational allergy events for Paediatricians, General Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and parents of children with allergies.
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Dr Rubaiyat Haque Dr Rubaiyat Haque is a Consultant Allergist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London. He studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University followed by clinical training at St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London. After a period of asthma research at Imperial College, he returned to Cambridge to undertake specialist training in Allergy before taking up his current consultant post at Guy’s and St Thomas’, the largest allergy service in the country.
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Dr Stephen Till Stephen Till is a Consultant in Allergy at the country's largest specialist centre for the treatment of allergies in adults and children based at Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. He is one of few doctors in the UK to be recognised by the General Medical Council (GMC) as a specialist in Allergy after completing a dedicated 5 year training programme. In addition to clinical practice, Dr Till is involved in medical research and allergy teaching at all levels. In 2009 he was winner of the World Allergy Organisation Henning Løwenstein Award for research in allergy.
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