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About me

• I am lead for Southampton Asthma and Allergy Centre, which has been awarded "Centre of Excellence" by the World Allergy Organisation. I lead asthma and allergy services to the Wessex region based at University Hospital Southampton. The service is approved for specialist commissioning by NHS England and registered with IQAS (Improvement in Quality of Allergy Service, through Royal College of Physicians.
• I am Director of David Hide Asthma & Allergy Centre on the Isle of Wight and Associate Editor of Clinical & Experimental Allergy Journal. I am a member of: (i) CRG for Allergy & Clinical Immunology, NHS England, (ii) served on NICE asthma diagnostics Committee, (iii) British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology Council, (iv) European and US Guideline Committee for Food Allergy, and (v) NIH (USA) Expert panel.
• I have published over 300 scientific articles in high impact journals, several books and book chapters and made >100 presentations at international conferences. I have been awarded >10 research grants totalling in excess of £20m from National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Medical Research Council and National Institute of Health (NIH), USA. I am training/have trained a number of juniors and supervise several PhD/DM at University of Southampton. I lead the undergraduate Allergy Curriculum and the MSc Food Allergy module and coordinate Year 3 Respiratory SSU.

Areas of interest

Allergies; Asthma; Food Allergy; Urticaria; drug allergy, Hay fever

Medical secretaries

• Leanne Palmer
• Mandalay Heatherlands Road Chilworth Southampton SO16 7JB
• 07807 987585
• 07807 987585
• asthmaallergy2012@gmail.com