Invited Speakers for 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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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 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 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