Health Advisory Board
Our Health Advisory Board is a group of leading health care professionals with specialist knowledge in allergy. The Health Advisory Board also has a presence on the Allergy UK Board of Trustees.
We are able to call on their services for medical advice in the production of information leaflets and factsheets and they are there to assist our helpline with any query on more complex or less common allergic conditions.
Our Health Advisory Board currently consists of the following professionals:
- Dr Adam Fox (Chairman of Allergy UK's Health Advisory Board)
Consultant Paediatric Allergist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London - Professor Jonathon Brostoff
Professor Emeritus of Allergy and Environmental Health at Kings College, London - Professor Peter Howarth
Honorary Consultant Physician with a clinical and research focus on asthma, particularly severe asthma, and allergy, University of Southampton. - Professor Roger Buckley
Professor of Ocular Medicine - Lisa Dixon
Independent Nurse Specialist - Professor Stephen Durham
Professor of Allergy & Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London. Specialising in allergy, asthma, rhinitis and immunotherapy - Roisin Fitzsimons
Paediatric Allergy Nurse Consultant, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London - Dr Rita Mirakian
Consultant in Allergy & Immunology, with interests in all aspects of allergic conditions. The Royal National Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital, London, and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge - Dr Rubaiyat Haque
Consultant Allergist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London - Dr Glenis Scadding
Hon Consultant Allergist/Rhinologist at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London - Dr Neil Shah
Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Specialist lead for GI allergy, St Thomas’ and Great Ormond Street Hospitals, London - Pepe Shirlaw
Consultant in Oral Medicine, with interests in allergies related to dentistry. Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London - Dr Isabel Skypala
Specialist Allergy Dietitian, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital - Professor Helen Smith
Professor of Primary Care, Brighton and Sussex Medical School - Steve Tomlin
Consultant Pharmacist - Children's Services, Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital, London - Dr Carina Venter
Senior Allergy Dietitian IOW. NIHR Post Doc Research Fellow, University of Portsmouth - Dr Joanne Walsh
General Practitioner - Dr Mark Wilkinson
Consultant Dermatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Tanya Wright
Specialist Dietitian, Amersham Hospital, Buckinghamshire NHS Healthcare Trust - Dr Paul Turner
Paediatric Allergy, St Mary’s Hospital & Evelina Children’s Hospital. MRC & Asthma UK Clinical Scientist - Dr Michael Radcliffe
Consultant in Allergy Medicine, University College London Hospitals - Dr Carsten Flohr
Consultant and Sr Lecturer, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’ Hospital London - Dr Walid Al-Safi
ENT surgeon in Portsmouth and Chichester - Andrew Williams
Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Allergy, Guys & St Thomas' Hospital, London - Dr David Mass
GP with a specialist interest in allergy, London - Dr Trevor Brown
Paediatric allergist at The Ulster Hospital - Dr Lisa Waddell
Specialist Paediatric Allergy Dietitian in Nottingham - Liane Reeves
Freelance & NHS Specialist Dietitian in Oxfordshire - Dr Tabi Anika Leslie
Honorary Consultant Dermatologist & Cutaneous Allergy, London - Dr Sinisa Savic
Immunologist and Allergist at St James' Hospital in Leeds - Dr Helen A Brough
Paediatric Allergist at Guy's and St. Thomas’ Hospital - Rachel De Boer
Paediatric Allergy Dietitian, Chase Lodge Hospital in London - Marianne Williams
Specialist Community Gastroenterology Dietitian in Somerset - Dr Christina Jones
Lecturer in Paediatrics - Shenagh Hume
Garden designer specialising in low pollen planting: Asthma and Allergy Nurse Specialist - Professor Mike Arden-Jones
Associate Professor, Consultant Dermatologist at Southampton - Dr Katherine Anagnostou
Specialist in Paediatric Allergy at Guys Hospital - Dr Nicola Brathwaite
Consultant Paediatric Allergist - Maureen Jenkins
Allergy Nurse Consultant, West Sussex - Sarah Denman
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Immunology in Leeds - Dr Runa Ali
Consultant Allergist & Respiratory Physician. St. Bartholomew's Hospital -
Dr Gary Stiefel
Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the University Hospitals of Leicester