Health Advisory Board

Our Health Advisory Board is a group of leading healthcare 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 Gary Stiefel (Chairman of Allergy UK’s Health Advisory Board), Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the University Hospitals of Leicester
• Professor Adam Fox – Consultant Paediatric Allergist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London
• Professor Stephen Durham – Professor of Allergy & Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London. Specialising in allergy, asthma, rhinitis and immunotherapy
• Dr Glenis Scadding – Hon Consultant Allergist/Rhinologist at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, 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
• 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
• Professor 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 David Mass – GP with a specialist interest in allergy, London
• Dr Lisa Waddell – Specialist Paediatric Allergy Dietitian in Nottingham
• 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
• Professor Christine Jones – Lecturer in Paediatrics
• Professor Mike Arden-Jones – Associate Professor, Consultant Dermatologist at Southampton
• Dr Nicola Brathwaite – Consultant Paediatric Allergist
• Sarah Denman MRPharmS (Consultant) –  Highly Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Immunology and Allergy in Leeds
• Dr Timothy Watts – Consultant Physician in Adult Allergy. Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, London
• Dr Andrew Whyte – Consultant Allergist and Immunologistworks at the Department of Allergy and Immunology at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth