1st - 2nd October 2020
Speakers are required to give details of potential conflicts of interest, with specific reference to the talk they are giving, on their introductory slide and these will also be included on the online biographies given below.
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Zainab Abdurrahman (Allergist and Clinical Immunologist)
McMaster University
Dr. Abdurrahman is a graduate of the University of Toronto Medical School followed by her Pediatrics training as well as her subspecialty training in Clinical Immunology and Allergy at McMaster University. She is currently on faculty at McMaster as an Assistant Clinical Professor (Adj) in the Department of Pediatrics. She is also part of the training program for the Pediatric and Adult Clinical Immunology and Allergy Residency Programs at McMaster. At the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology she is the Fellows in Training Program Supervisor. She may be new to Mississauga area but Dr. Abdurrahman has been in practice in Toronto since 2012.
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Dr Katherine Anagnostou (Director of the Food Immunotherapy Program)
Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston TX
As Director of the Food Immunotherapy Program at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston TX, Dr Anagnostou is passionate about investigating new and innovative treatments for food allergy. She obtained her PhD from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and her dissertation focused on two separate trials of Peanut Oral Immunotherapy in children. Her research work was published in The Lancet and received international recognition.
Dr Anagnostou has developed a strong interest in preventing and treating all forms of allergic disease. She is committed to improving the quality of life of allergic patients and their families.
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Ms Heidi Ball (Senior Specialist Dietitian)
University Hospitals of Leicester
Heidi is a graduate of Leeds University and has over 25 years experience of working with children with food allergy. Working as a Senior Specialist Dietitian solely in paediatric allergy as part of the University Hospitals of Leicester Paediatric Allergy Service (outpatient service and day case food challenge programme), she has also had several publications including J R Soc Med, Allergy, J Paed Allergy Clin Immunol and Clinical Experimental Allergy, as well co-author of the BSACI guidelines on the Management of Cow’s Milk Allergy. She has presented some of her work on nut challenges and safety of baked milk reintroduction in IgE allergy at EACCI and BSACI and produced the booklet ‘Food Challenges for Children – a practical guide’. She also lectures on the Msc Allergy programme (Southampton) and has involvement in diet sheet production for the allergy specialist interest group of the British Dietetic association.
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Ms Rebecca Batt (Advanced Nurse Practitioner, The Evelina London Children’s Hospital )
Guy's & St Thomas'
Rebecca qualified as an RGN/RSCN in 1993 from Sheffield School of Nursing. She spent ten years working in Paediatric Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street and Toronto Sick Children’s Hospital. She gained a BSc (Hons) from LSBU in Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing in 2004. She was a Practice Educator at GOSH before starting as a Nurse Specialist at Asthma UK. This led to an interest in Paediatric Allergy and she began her career in allergy in 2007 when she became a Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist at King’s College Hospital. She gained the MSc (Allergy) from Imperial College, London in 2011 with Distinction and she is now an Advanced Nurse Practitioner at The Evelina London Children’s Hospital and is also a Non-Medical Prescriber. Rebecca is the Senior Clinical Lead for a team of 14 nurses. She runs Nurse Led Clinics seeing up to 18 new and follow up patients per week. She regularly speaks at national study events and conferences. She lectures at LSBU on the ANP Pathway and the Non-Medical Prescribing Course. She is a Course Director for the Allergy Academy and has also organised national study events for allergy nurses across the country. Conflict of interest: Grant from ALK-Abello towards Non Medical Prescribing Course
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Professor Domingo Barber Hernandez (Professor of the Faculty of Medicine & Director of the Institute of Applied Molecular Medicine)
Universidad San Pablo-CEU
Domingo Barber has been Director of the Institute of Applied Molecular Medicine (IMMA) at San Pablo CEU University Medical School since 2013; upon taking up the role he started a Research Program in Allergy and Inflammation which to date has five different funded projects with four different Principal Investigators. He also coordinates a multicentre research project involving 15 different hospitals. He participates as Group Leader in a collaborative research Network (RETIC ARAYDAL) and is part of the Director's Board of the RETIC and Coordinator of Program 3, Severe allergic phenotypes: Understanding and predicting interventions. In January 2019, he began a JPI European Project on food allergy intervention (Principal Investigator of the MINECO element) together with German, French and Spanish partners. Before joining academia, Professor Barber held a range of positions at the pharmaceutical company ALK-Abello A/S. During his time there he contributed to the discovery, development and commercialization of different products, including fast dissolving tablets for sublingual Immunotherapy and new in vivo and vitro diagnosis strategies. He also collaborated with multiple clinical groups, promoting the implementation of new clinical protocols in allergy. Professor Barber is currently part of the International Working Committees and Task Force Groups in EACCI. In 2019 he was awarded the Paul Ehrlich Award for Experimental Research by the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EACCI). In November 2019 he was appointed Scientific Programme Committee Chair of the EAACI, responsible for the organisation of the scientific programme for 2021 and 2022.
Conflict of interest: None to declare
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Ms Janette Bartle (Nurse)
The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust
Janette Bartle works in the ENT department at Ipswich Hospital now part of ESNEFT (East Suffolk North Essex Foundation Trust). She is keen to promote best practice in allergy care particularly when it comes to the treatment of rhinitis. Education on nasal douching and correct application of topical corticosteroid nasal sprays is an essential part of her role. Having developed SOP’s for these procedures when on the BSACI nurses’ group committee, she now uses them in her patient workshops at Ipswich. These educational sessions develop the user understanding to gain concordance and compliance to continue using their topical nasal treatments which are often required long-term. Janette is also a pollen monitor collecting air samples from a trap on the roof of the Ipswich Hospital between March and September. She counts the number of pollen grains for each day and sends this data to the Met Office enabling them to compile the national UK pollen forecast.
Conflict of interest: None to declare
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Dr James Calvert (Consultant in Respiratory Medicine)
North Bristol NHS Trust
Dr James Calvert qualified in Medicine from Oxford University in 1992. He studied Public Health as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University before completing his PhD in Asthma Epidemiology in South Africa and London. He has been a Consultant in Bristol since 2006. He has worked with colleagues in the South West and at NHS England to improve access to integrated services for respiratory patients. He has a longstanding interest in quality improvement in health care and has worked with the BTS, NHS Improving Value, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the University of Bristol in this field. He is currently the lead clinician for the National Asthma Audit at the RCP and National Specialty Advisor for Severe Asthma. Conflict of Interest: No conflicts relevant to the specific presentation at this conference. However I have received speaker fees or other support from Astra-Zeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim, GSK, Teva, Chiesi and Napp in the past 5 years.
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Ms Lydia Collins-Hussey (Paediatric Allergy Dietitian)
Ovivia UK Ltd
Lydia is a paediatric allergy dietitian and has worked in allergy for the last 6 years within the NHS and for Oviva UK Ltd. She primarily works in the community supporting patients with cow’s milk protein allergy as well as appropriate prescribing. Lydia is also the secretary for the BDA Food Allergy Specialist Group. She is currently doing her MSc through Plymouth University in Paediatric Dietetics where she has focused her studies on paediatric food allergy.
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Dr Lavanya Diwaker (Consultant Immunologist)
Royal Stoke Hospital
Lavanya has a Master’s degree in Health economics and has completed a Wellcome Trust funded PhD in health economics from the university of Birmingham. Lavanya’s research focusses on improving allergy pathways and exploring cost and quality of life impact of allergies. Conflict of Interest: I have previously received conference sponsorships from ALK Abello, CSL Behring, Shire, Takeda.
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Dr Bettina Duca (Specialist Registrar)
Imperial College London
Dr Bettina Duca completed her paediatric training in Malta. In 2017 she moved to the United Kingdom and started working in Paediatric Allergy at St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She was awarded her MSc in Allergy in September 2019, her research project focused on adolescents with food allergy. She is also an active member of the Adolescent and Young Adult Task Force of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Her current role in clinical research is primarily focused on food allergy, specifically on oral immunotherapy. Clinically, she has an interest in food allergy and complex multisystem allergic disease. Conflict of interest: None to declare
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Dr Lene Garvey (Associate Professor )
Copenhagen University Hospital
Lene Heise Garvey graduated in medicine from the University of Bristol in 1994, specialized in Anaesthesiology in Denmark in 2006 and defended her PhD on “Allergic reactions during anaesthesia and surgery” in 2010. In 2012 she obtained a Subspecialization in Allergology. She is co-founder and head of the Danish Anaesthesia Allergy Centre, the National Reference Centre for investigation of perioperative hypersensitivity in Denmark established in 1999. She shares her time between a position as Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and working as a consultant in the Allergy Clinic, where she sees patients in both general allergy and perioperative allergy clinics. She is a Board Member of the Danish Society of Allergology and the Drug Allergy Interest Group in EAACI and an active member of several EAACI task forces currently including Drug Provocation testing and Anaphylaxis guidelines. Her research interests include diagnosis, treatment and mechanisms of anaphylaxis, all aspects of perioperative hypersensitivity, allergy to chlorhexidine and other rare allergens, and drug allergy in general, with a special focus on risk stratification in penicillin allergy.
Conflict of Interest: None to declare
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Dr Hazel Gowland (Visiting Fellow, School of Medicine)
University of Southampton
Hazel has had severe allergies to nuts and peanuts since early childhood. She was involved in shaping the Anaphylaxis Campaign from 1994 and established Allergy Action, a research and training consultancy in 2000. In 2018 she was awarded a PhD for a thesis on Food allergy: innovation in advocacy, research and training to support and protect those at risk. Hazel works as a consultant and trainer with consumers, food businesses and regulators to support best practice and reduce risks. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the IFST and the Food Special Interest Group of the RSPH. She lectures on MSc programmes at Southampton University, Imperial College and the University of Kingston. In 2019 she joined the Expert Group of the Safefood Knowledge Network for Ireland. Current and future projects include studies into the quality of life and cost of living with food allergy, and on-going epidemiological work to understand and record severe and fatal reactions and the forensic context of food allergy. Conflict of Interest: None to declare
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Dr Simon Hart (Reader in Respiratory Medicine)
Hull York Medical School
Hazel has had severe allergies to nuts and peanuts since early childhood. She was involved in shaping the Anaphylaxis Campaign from 1994 and established Allergy Action, a research and training consultancy in 2000. In 2018 she was awarded a PhD for a thesis on Food allergy: innovation in advocacy, research and training to support and protect those at risk. Hazel works as a consultant and trainer with consumers, food businesses and regulators to support best practice and reduce risks. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the IFST and the Food Special Interest Group of the RSPH. She lectures on MSc programmes at Southampton University, Imperial College and the University of Kingston. In 2019 she joined the Expert Group of the Safefood Knowledge Network for Ireland. Current and future projects include studies into the quality of life and cost of living with food allergy, and on-going epidemiological work to understand and record severe and fatal reactions and the forensic context of food allergy. Conflict of Interest: None to declare
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Dr Graham Johnston (Consultant Dermatologist )
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Dr Johnston is a Consultant Dermatologist and Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Leicester where he holds an MRC grant. He worked on the British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF) systematic review of the treatment of occupational dermatitis. He was the advisor for NICE on the use of alitretinoin in hand eczema and is lead author of the latest British Association of Dermatologists’ Contact Dermatitis guidelines. In 2011 he was guest editor for a Contact Dermatitis edition of Clinics in Dermatology and has published over 120 papers and abstracts in peer reviewed journals and chapters in two of the major dermatology reference books. He is co-author of the best-selling Lecture Notes in Dermatology.
Conflict of Interest: None to declare
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Dr Constantinos Kotsapas (Consultant in Paediatric Allergy)
Imperial College London Healthcare NHS Trust
Constantinos Kotsapas is a Paediatric Consultant with a Special Interest in Paediatric Allergy. He completed his paediatric training in London including posts as a Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Allergy at St Thomas and St Mary’s hospitals. For the last year he has been working as a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at St Mary’s Hospital in London. He is also completing his research project as part of his Allergy MSc at Imperial College under the guidance of Professor Adnan Custovic. His research focuses on the early-life characteristics and clinical predictors for peanut allergy and the association of peanut allergy with childhood asthma. He also teaches in the Allergy MSc at Imperial College.
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Dr Susan Leech (Consultant / Clinical Lead Paediatric Allergy)
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Susan Leech has been consultant and clinical lead for the paediatric allergy service at King’s College Hospital, London since 2001. As Chair of the Paediatric group of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology she established standards for secondary care paediatric allergy services in the UK, which have been instrumental in supporting the development of clinical paediatric allergy services over the last 10 years. As a member of the BSACI Standards of Care Committee, she has participated in the development of numerous clinical guidelines and recently led an update of the BSACI egg allergy guidelines. She is a member of the BSACI penicillin allergy delabelling task force; she is a Director and Treasurer of the BSACI. Conflict of Interest: None to declare
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Dr Clare Murray (Clinical Senior Lecturer)
University of Manchester
Clare Murray is a Paediatric respiratory consultant at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and senior lecturer in the University of Manchester. She is both an active clinician and researcher, focused on asthma. She is paediatric asthma lead for Greater Manchester and heads the paediatric severe asthma service for the North West of England. She has been actively involved in the Manchester Asthma and Allergy Study for over 20 years (a large birth cohort investigating risk factors for the development of asthma and allergy) and has been Chief Investigator since 2015. As such, she is passionate about the role of allergy in asthma. She is also part of national (STELAR) and international (UBIOPRED, EAGLE) consortia investigating asthma risk factors. Amongst other research projects, she is principle investigator for a large observational study (RADicA) investigating asthma diagnostic pathways and novel asthma diagnostic tests. She chairs the National Institute for Health Research Children’s Respiratory and Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Studies Group and is Children’s Research Network lead for Greater Manchester. Conflict of Interest: None to declare
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Habib Naqvi (Interim Director)
NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard, NHS England
Dr Habib Naqvi has a background in public health, health psychology, healthcare policy and strategy development, and is the Interim Director for the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard at NHS England. Before joining NHS England, Habib led on the development of national equality and diversity policy at the Department of Health and Social Care. He managed development of the Equality Delivery System for the NHS, the establishment of the NHS Equality and Diversity Council, and led on the health sector’s response to the UK government’s review of the Public Sector Equality Duty. Habib has vast experience and expertise in equality and inclusion as well as in healthcare strategy and policy development. He currently sits on several national advisory boards, is the national sponsor for the Midlands Visible NHS Leaders Network and provides external expert advice to the board of HMP Springhill. Habib is also an Ambassador for the Mary Seacole Trust, and is reverse mentoring the CEO of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens. Habib was awarded an MBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to equality and diversity in the NHS. Habib is on Twitter: @DrHNaqvi
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Dr Nandinee Patel (Paediatric Allergy)
Royal London Hospital
Nandinee Patel is a specialist registrar in paediatric allergy within the London Training Programme. She is completing her PhD in food allergy under the guidance of Dr Paul Turner at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on characterising peanut allergic reactions in children undertaking oral peanut immunotherapy. She is contributing to taskforces on food immunotherapy and food allergy thresholds within EAACI, teaches on the Allergy MSc programme at Imperial College London and is the trainee representative for paediatric allergy training within RCPCH. Conflict of Interest: None to declare
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Dr Christopher Rutkowski (Clinical Lead and Consultant Allergist)
Guy's & St Thomas'
Dr Rutkowski’s special clinical and research interests include difficult urticaria and drug allergy. He works alongside his dermatology colleagues in the first UK joint allergy/ dermatology Difficult Urticaria Clinic at St John’s Institute of Dermatology which recently became an internationally-recognised GA²LEN Urticaria Centre of Reference and Excellence (UCARE). Chris developed the largest anti-IgE (omalizumab) service for chronic spontaneous urticaria in the UK. He is a member of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology taskforce on paediatric urticaria and Steering Committee of the GA²LEN/UCARE ‘CU-Life’ project. He is a published author in the field of drug allergy and contributes increasingly to the education and training of allergists, dermatologists, immunologist, GPs, general physicians and students at a national and international level. In addition to his clinical duties he is President-Elect and Treasurer of the Clinical Immunology and Allergy Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and member of the Allergy Specialist Advisory Committee of the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board. He is the UK Specialist Training Recruitment Lead for adult allergy.
Conflict of Interest: Lectures for Novartis
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Dr Glenis Scadding (Honorary Consultant Physician in Allergy and Rhinology )
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
Guy Scadding’s clinical interests include rhinitis and rhinosinusitis, anaphylaxis, food and drug allergy. He completed a PhD in 2016 on nasal allergen provocation, local biomarkers in nasal fluid and the effects of allergen immunotherapy. He was involved in organising the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, BSACI annual meeting between 2014 and 2018. Conflict of interest: None to declare
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Ms Anne-Marie Sims (Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist)
Guy's & St Thomas'
Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, Evelina Children’s Hospital Annemarie Sims is a Canadian trained occupational therapist with over 20 years’ experience working with infants and children with neurodevelopmental disorders. She has a special interest in feeding difficulties from infancy through childhood. Annemarie currently works in the neurodevelopmental team including the Complex Feeding Clinic at The Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Conflict of interest: None to declare
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Dr Isabel Skypala (Consultant Allergy Dietitian)
Royal Brompton Hospital
Isabel is a Consultant Allergy Dietitian at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College, co-leading the Food Allergy module of the Allergy MSc. She specialises in the diagnosis and management of adult food allergy, and her research is primarily focused on plant food allergy, and allergic gastrointestinal disorders. Isabel lectures at international level, and has authored many peer-reviewed papers and books. She was the founder and first chair of the Food Allergy Specialist Group of the Brutish Dietetic Association (BDA) and first dietetic representative on the Council of the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI). She was also a founder member and past chair of the International Network for Diet and Nutrition in Allergy (INDANA), and the Allied Health Interest Group of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI). Isabel is a current member of the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology, EAACI and the BSACI. For the last 4 years, she has served on the Executive Committee of EAACI and actively promotes the role of allied health professionals in the specialty of allergy and immunology.
Conflict of interest: None to declare
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Dr Gary Stiefel (Paediatric Allergy Consultant)
University Hospitals of Leicester
Since 2012, Gary has been a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, having been trained at St Mary Hospital, London and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust. He completed an Allergy MSc at Imperial College London and now regularly lectures on the food allergy module for the Allergy MSc at University of Southampton. Gary has previously served as one of the RCPCH specialist advisory committee members for Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases. Gary is the lead author for the BSACI nut allergy guidelines and has recently co-lead a national BPSU study on FPIES. He is the board of trustees for Allergy UK. Conflict of interest: None to declare
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Dr Sarah Wakelin (Consultant Dermatologist)
St Mary's Hospital
Sarah Wakelin is a consultant dermatologist at Imperial College Healthcare Trust and a honorary senior lecturer. She has a special interest in adult allergic skin disease and contact allergy and she is the lead clinician for cutaneous allergy testing in the trust. She is a member of the committee member of the British Society for Cutaneous allergy and her special interests include cosmetic allergy and drug patch testing. Conflict of interest: None to declare
