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FOOD FUSSY OR FOOD ALLERGIC?  A FORUM FOR PARENTS OF ALLERGIC CHILDREN

Patient support charity Action Against Allergy has teamed up with talkhealth and NHS Choices to present an online forum for parents of children with food allergy and intolerance.  Clinical experts in paediatric allergy from King’s College London Allergy Academy will be on call to advise you what to do if some of the common foods given to your child trigger a reaction, mild or severe.  

Our experts have a wealth of knowledge and information they can share with you.
From 18-25 February 2011 the forum will be open for questions and discussion with the experts.

Dr Adam Fox MA(Hons), MSc, MB, BS, DCH, FRCPCH, FHEA, Dip Allergy 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 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.

Visit Dr Adam Fox's website - www.adamfox.co.uk

Dr Helen Brough MA (Hons) MBBS MRCPCH 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 Medical Research Doctorate 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.  

Sian has particular interests in food allergy, the use of adrenaline auto-injectors for the treatment of anaphylaxis and patient health information. Sian is actively involved in professional medical education, responsible for the Specialist Registrar teaching programme at St Thomas’ Hospital and Sian’s article on the Emergency Management of Anaphylaxis for General Practitioners will be published shortly.

Sian is a member of the British and European Societies for Allergy and Clinical Immunology and is commencing an MSc in Allergy at Imperial College London. Sian will also be undertaking further advanced allergy training at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland, a regional centre of excellence in allergy for Switzerland with a reputation for leading research.

Hasita Prinja - Specialist Paediatric Allergy Dietitian Hasita qualified from the University of North London with an honours degree in Nutrition and Dietetics in 1987. She has been part of the Paediatric Dietetic service at St Thomas' Hospital since 1994 and has been working in the speciality of Paediatric Allergy since 1995. Hasita is currently working with the Allergy team at the Evelina Children's Hospital.

Last reviewed: 19 January 2011
Next review date: 26 February 2011