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
• Dr 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 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
• Steve Tomlin – Consultant Pharmacist – Children’s Services, Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital, London
• 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 David Mass – GP with a specialist interest in allergy, London
• 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 Nicola Brathwaite – Consultant Paediatric Allergist
• Sarah Denman – Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Immunology in Leeds
• Dr Runa Ali – Consultant Allergist & Respiratory Physician. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital