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Helen Blythe
Founder, Benedict Blythe Foundation, UK
Helen Blythe is the co-founder and Director of the Benedict Blythe Foundation, established alongside her husband Peter following the death of her five-year-old son, Benedict, from anaphylaxis at school in 2021.Since then, Helen has become one of the UK’s leading advocates for improving allergy safety in schools, working alongside clinicians, charities, policymakers and families to drive systemic change through a united voice. Helen led the campaign for Benedict’s Law, which secured legislative reform in England to strengthen protections for children with allergies through mandatory school allergy policies, staff training, spare adrenaline auto-injectors and improved emergency preparedness. The campaign resulted in allergy being recognised for the first time in primary legislation, and through comprehensive statutory guidance. Her work has also informed policy discussions through campaigns across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, as well as influencing improvements in the Republic of Ireland, Lithuania and internationally. Benedict’s Law is an example of how non-health interventions can have significant impacts for people in communities with allergy.
Dr Osvaldo Borrelli
Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK
Dr Borrelli is the Head of Clinical Service and Speciality Lead, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), and Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. Great Ormond Street Hospital His clinical interests encompass disorders of gastrointestinal motility, including gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, chronic constipation, functional gastrointestinal disorders, and paediatric intestinal pseudo-obstruction (PIPO). Private Healthcare Information Network Together with Dr Lindley, Dr Nikaki, Dr Pescarin and Dr Rybak, he runs a specialist motility centre for children with severe congenital and acquired gut motility disease, including Paediatric Intestinal Pseudo-obstruction (PIPO). He also leads the motility diagnostic lab at GOSH, where investigations including antroduodenal manometry and colonic manometry are performed. He is also the Lead of the NHS England Highly Specialised Service (HSS) for PIPO and Chair of the North Thames Paediatric Gastroenterology Network. He is a member of the Rome V Paediatric Committee of ESPGHAN and sits on international working groups developing clinical guidelines for disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs) and PIPO diagnosis and management.
Dr Robert Boyle
Clinical Reader in Paediatric Allergy, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Boyle is a paediatric allergist with research interests in allergy prevention and in commercial determinants of health. His clinical trial and evidence synthesis work has impacted infant feeding guidelines internationally and has supported regulatory and legal action against the commercial milk formula industry. He is a senior editor at Cochrane, editor in chief of the BSACI journal Clinical & Experimental Allergy and a member of two Department of Health and Social Care expert advisory committees on nutrition.
Professor Helen Brough
Consultant in Paediatric Allergy and Immunology, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Professor Helen Brough is a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Founder of Children’s Allergy Doctors, and Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London. Her clinical and research interests focus on food allergy prevention and management, eczema, asthma, allergic rhinitis, and immunotherapy in children. Professor Brough has contributed to a number of national and international studies in paediatric allergy, including the LEAP and EAT studies investigating food allergy prevention. She was Principal Investigator for the Pronuts study examining dietary management in children with nut allergy, and is Principal Investigator for the international SEAL (Stopping Eczema and Allergy) study. She is Chair of the Expert Steering Committee for the Parent and Baby Feeding Project, an NIHR Programme Grant funded study, and serves on the Expert Steering Committee for the NIH-funded Consortium of Food Allergy Research (CoFAR). She is also Medical Advisor to the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation (NARF) and a co-author of the European Guidelines for Eczema. Professor Brough is actively involved in teaching, research, and national and international scientific collaboration. She is Past Chair of the EAACI Paediatric Section, Past BSACI Conference Organiser, and Past President of the Royal Society of Medicine Paediatric Allergy and Immunology Section.
Mrs Sarah Burrell
Senior Research Nurse, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK
Sarah qualified as an adult nurse at The Middlesex Hospital London, and after working many years in intensive care, followed by primary care, moved into clinical research. She was awarded a Dean’s scholarship to complete her MSc in Allergy at Imperial College London, for which she was awarded the Jill Warner Prize for her research project. Her interests include food allergy and patient/public involvement in research.
Lydia Collins-Hussey
Specialist Paediatric Allergy Dietitian, Freelance/Private Practice
Lydia Collins-Hussey is a Specialist Paediatric Allergy Dietitian who has over 13 years’ experience working within the NHS, research, charity and private sector. She is the chair of the committee for the Food Allergy Specialist Group (FASG) and regularly sits on advisory and allergy faculties. In 2019, Lydia won the Barry Kay Award (Allied Health) for her work in CMA in NHS Grampian and in 2021 won the BDA Paediatric Research Award for her MSc dissertation in CMA and telehealth.
Professor Adnan Custovic
Professor of Paediatric Allergy, Imperial College London, UK
Adnan Custovic is Professor of Paediatric Allergy at Imperial College London. He established the Frankland-Kay Centre for Allergy at Imperial and serves as its Foundational Director. He is a Director of the Imperial College London/Imperial College Healthcare Trust WAO Centre of Excellence. His research has focused upon the origins and natural history of asthma and allergy across the life-course. He pioneered the use of data-driven methodologies in the analysis of complex data, including some of the first uses of machine learning in respiratory medicine/allergy. He publisher >480 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with >70,000 citations and h-index of 123. In 2020, he was elected to the Fellowship of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2019, he was granted membership of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ANUBiH). In 2024 he was elected as Honorary member of the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences (AMZH). In 2023 he was elected as EAACI Fellow (FEAACI) in recognition of his outstanding achievements and continuous efforts to advance the field of allergy, clinical immunology and asthma.
Mrs Justine Dempsey
Clinical Lead Dietitian Paediatric Allergy, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK
Justine is the Clinical Lead Dietitian within the Children’s Allergy Team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and has over 25 years’ experience working with children and young people with food allergies. She specialises in the dietary management of children and young people with multiple food allergies and has a particular interest in milk oral immunotherapy (OIT). She completed her MSc in Allergy at Imperial College London in 2022 and served as Co-Chair of the British Dietetic Association Food Allergy Specialist Groupfrom 2022 to 2025. She is also a founding member of the BSACI Dietitians Strategic Group. In 2025, she completed a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the Children’s Clinical Research Facility at Imperial College London, where she undertook research on dietary outcomes following oral immunotherapy for cow’s milk allergy. She has presented her work at both the EAACI and BSACI conferences and is committed to translating research into clinical practice. She was awarded the BSACI Barry Kay Award for Allied Health Professionals in 2025.
Dr Sally-Ann Denton
Paediatric Lead for Dietetics/Lead children’s and adult specialist allergy dietitian, University hospitals Southampton NHS Trust, UK
Sally-Ann is the Paediatric Dietetic Lead at Southampton Children’s Hospital and clinical lead for paediatric and adult dietetic allergy at University Hospital Southampton NHSFT. She graduated with a first-class honours degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Wales, Cardiff. Sally-Ann has worked in clinical posts, spanning community and acute services. She completed an MSc Allergy, University of Southampton in 2012, graduating with distinction, receiving the Holgate AAIR prize for excellence in allergy. Sally-Ann gained further experience as locum Senior Allergy Dietitian at the David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, Isle of Wight in 2015. She established the Adult Allergy Dietetic Service at University Hospital Southampton in January 2016 and has worked as paediatric allergy lead since October2018.Sally-Ann is module lead on the Food Allergy Module, MSc Allergy, University of Southampton. She teaches dietetic and medical students on allergy, has spoken at BSACI National Allergy Registrars training days and taught GPs and health visitors on nutrition including food allergy. She is a member of BSACI and an author for All About Allergy Publication. Sally-Ann has authored / co-authored papers, delivered presentations on food allergy at national webinars and oral poster presentations at international conferences.
Professor Adam Fox
Consultant Paediatric Allergist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, UK
Adam read Medicine at Cambridge University and is Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London & Consultant Paediatric Allergist at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. He spent 9 years as Clinical Lead for Allergy, 3 years as Clinical Director for Specialist Ambulatory Services and a further 5 years as Deputy Medical Director (Commercial) at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He was founding Director of the KCL Allergy Academy, which was a finalist at 2018 BMJ Awards.
Adam was BSACI President from October 2018 until 2021, and since 2022 Chairs the National Allergy Strategy Group and the Expert Advisory Group for Allergy jointly with the Department of Health & Social Care, leading the 2025-35 National Allergy Strategy.
Adam was awarded ‘Paediatric Allergist of the Year’ from Allergy UK in 2007. His doctoral thesis received the Raymond Horton Smith prize from Cambridge University in 2012, and he was included in The Times ‘Britain’s 100 Best Children’s Doctors’. Adam received the William Frankland Award for Outstanding contribution to Allergy in 2015 and National Clinical Excellence awards in 2016 and 2020. In 2024, Adam received BSACI Fellows Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to clinical allergy and in 2025 was awarded an OBE for services to Paediatric Allergy.
Dr Jennie Gane
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Nottingham University Hospitals, UK
Dr Jennie Gane is a consultant respiratory physician in the Allergy and Severe Asthma services at Nottingham University Hospitals. Her specialist interests are in asthma and general allergy. She trained in the Birmingham Regional Severe Asthma service and West Midlands Allergy and Immunology service at Heartlands Hospital and completed an MSc in Allergy at Imperial College in 2011. She has an interest in medical education, taking over as chair for the BSACI Allergy Education Network in September 2023 and leading on projects to improve access to high quality allergy education for UK healthcare professionals.
Professor Lene Heise Garvey, Professor
Consultant, Danish Anaesthesia Allergy Centre, Allergy Clinic, Gentofte Hospital, Denmark
Professor Lene Heise Garvey is a specialist in Anaesthesiology with subspecialisation in Allergology. She is co-founder and Head of the Danish Anaesthesia Allergy Centre, the Danish National Reference Centre for investigation of perioperative hypersensitivity. She is a full Professor in Allergology with special focus on Anaphylaxis and Drug Allergy at the University of Copenhagen and a consultant in the Allergy Clinic, Gentofte Hospital, Denmark. She is Chair of the International Suspected Perioperative Allergic Reactions Group (ISPAR), past chair of the EAACI Drug Allergy Interest Group, and member of the WAO drug hypersensitivity and anaphylaxis committees.
Hannah Hunter
Specialist Allergy Dietitian, Guy’s & St Thomas, UK
Hannah is a specialist adult allergy dietitian at Guy’s Hospital in London. Her undergraduate training was at King’s College London and she completed the MSc Allergy at Imperial College London in 2017 with the Dean’s Award. Her clinical practice is combined with research and specific interests include plant food allergy, adult oral immunotherapy and eosinophilic oesophagitis. She is Treasurer for the Food Allergy Specialist Group (FASG) of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) and founding member of the BSACI Dietitians Strategic Group.
Dr Nicola Jay
Consultant Paediatric Allergist, Sheffield Childrens Hospital
Nicola has been a consultant paediatric allergist at Sheffield Childrens Hospital for almost two decades and involved in strategic clinical leadership for 10years at national, regional and local level. She is currently employed as a Deputy Medical Director at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB with previous roles being as Associate Medical Director NHSE, Officer Workforce & Health Delivery RCPCH, Vice Chair of the Yorkshire & Humber Clinical senate and Clinical Lead CYP across South Yorkshire. Nicola was a previously elected BSACI council member and supports the EEDI committee. Her research portfolio has focused on health inequalities, workforce, penicillin allergy delabelling and prevention with notable publications in NEJM, The Lancet, CEA and Archived of disease in Childhood. The main focus of her work is bringing people together and breaking down boundaries, focusing on achieving an equitable approach to healthcare and delivery for the population, especially children.
Professor Christina Jones
Professor of Clinical Health Psychology, University of Surrey, UK
Professor Christina (Chrissie) Jones is a Professor in Clinical Health Psychology and Chartered Psychologist at the University of Surrey. Chrissie’s research focuses on designing and evaluating accessible psychological and behavioural interventions for individuals and families living with long-term conditions — including food allergy — and mental health comorbidities. Chrissie is passionate about ensuring that psychological support is accessible, evidence-based, and embedded within multidisciplinary allergy care. Her work spans the lifespan and she has received funding from organisations including the National Institute for Health & Social Care Research, Innovate UK, and the Food Standards Agency.
Dr Maeve Kelleher
Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Childrens Health Ireland, UK
Dr Maeve Kelleher is a Paediatric Allergy Consultant in Childrens Health Ireland, Dublin. Her research interests are in preventing allergies in children. She was awarded an MD from University College Cork in 2015 for her work exploring the relationship between skin barrier damage in early life and the development of eczema and food allergy. She held a NIHR Transitional research fellowship through Imperial College London, leading an international collaboration for an individual patient data meta-analysis to determine if interventions to protect the skin barrier in early infancy can prevent eczema and food allergy. She is passionate about educating parent and families about food allergy.
Dr Mich Lajeunesse
Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Southampton Children’s Hospital
Mich is a consultant in Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at Southampton Children’s Hospital, a World Allergy Organization National Centre of Excellence. He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, where he contributes to postgraduate teaching and is involved in clinical research on food allergy and immunotherapy including the NATASHA study. He supported by NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre to undertake research into cow’s milk allergy in children. He established the successful Paediatric Allergy Training courses for RCPCH, based on his EATERS allergy focused history mnemonic. In 2018 Mich established the BSACI Registry for Immunotherapy (BRIT). He is convenor of the friends of Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre, a group of UK based healthcare professionals networking with a key centre for the rehabilitation of children in Israel/Palestine. Mich is a self-supporting priest in the Church of England. He was ordained in 2021 and is serving his curacy in the Winchester Diocese.
Professor Miranda Lomer
Consultant Dietitian in Gastroenterology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Professor Miranda Lomer is a Senior Consultant Dietitian in Gastroenterology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London, and Adjunct Professor of Dietetics in Gastroenterology at King’s College London. She completed a PhD on diet and Crohn’s disease in 2002. Her research focuses on dietary assessment and nutritional management of gastrointestinal disorders, including IBD and disorders of gut–brain interaction. She has led guideline development, multicentre clinical trials and innovative service delivery, with extensive national and international leadership roles. Professor Lomer has received multiple honours, including the BDA Elsie Widdowson Lecture (2014) and an MBE for services to dietetics and gastroenterology (2016).
Professor Rosan Meyer
Specialist Paediatric Dietitian and Visiting Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium
Rosan is a specialist paediatric dietitian, qualified as a dietitian in South Africa in 1996 and then completed her paediatric dietetic training in the UK. She has both an MSc and PhD, which she completed at Imperial College London in 2008 and has worked at St. Mary’s Hospital London, as lead paediatric dietitian before becoming the principal research dietitian for the gastro-allergy at Great Ormond Street Hospital until 2015. She is CEO of StepbyStepKidzNutrition Ltd, which is a paediatric dietetic practice that has multiple specialist paediatric dietitians specialising in food hypersensitivity, growth faltering and the spectrum of aversive eating. Rosan has more than > 100 peer reviewed publications and is the co-author of the Paediatric Clinical Dietetics Pocket Guide. She was the co-module leader for the Food Hypersensitivity Module of the MSc in Allergy at Imperial College from 2008 – 2023 and is currently visiting Professor at KU Leuven and University of Huddersfield. She is one of the research dietitians on the NIHR funded study on establishing test directed management of eczema and leads multiple task forces for the European Academy for Allergy and Clinical Immunology and is the secretary for the working group on Immunemodulation and Nutrition.
Dr Alexandra Nanzer
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Dr Alexandra Nanzer, PhD, is a Consultant in Severe Asthma and Eosinophilic Lung Diseases at Guy’s Hospital and a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, where she previously obtained her PhD in asthma immunology. She leads an EGPA clinic jointly with colleagues in rheumatology and cardiology and cares for the largest EGPA patient cohort in the UK. Her expertise in biologic therapies for patients with severe asthma, EGPA and associated eosinophilic lung diseases has been published in peer reviewed journals and book chapters over the past years.
Professor Markus Ollert
Senior Consultant and Research Group Leader, Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), Luxembourg
Prof. Ollert has been Senior Consultant and Research Group Leader at the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) since January 2026, following over a decade as founding Director of its Department of Infection and Immunity (2014–2025). His work spans basic and translational research on immune-related disorders, including viral infections, autoimmunity, asthma, allergies, and neuroimmune diseases. He also serves as Visiting Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (since 2025) and previously held professorships at the University of Southern Denmark (2015–2025) and Technische Universität München (2000–2014), where he contributed significantly to molecular allergology and translational diagnostics, particularly in insect venom allergy. A clinician-scientist specialized in Dermatology and Allergology, Prof. Ollert has authored over 300 scientific publications. He has held key leadership roles within the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), including Vice-President Science (2022–2024), and contributed to major initiatives such as the Molecular Allergology Users’ Guide. He currently serves as inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the EAACI-3H Research & Innovation Hub. His research focuses on immune tolerance mechanisms and innovative interventions, including immunotherapy and microbiome-based approaches, supported by advanced multi-omics profiling to enable predictive and personalized medicine.
Dr Nandinee Patel
Consultant Paediatric Allergist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK
Dr. Nandinee Patel is a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at St Mary’s Hospital, London where she leads the food immunotherapy service. She is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, where she has 10 years clinical trials experience in food allergy.
Dr Michael Perkin
Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, City St George’s, University of London, UK
Dr Perkin is an academic Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at St George’s, University of London. He trained at St George’s Hospital and developed an early interest in clinical epidemiology, completing an intercalated BSc in Epidemiology and Statistics. He later held a Wellcome Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology under Professor David Strachan, during which he completed an MSc at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD examining links between atopy and farming environments in children. He completed Higher Specialist Training in Paediatric Allergy at St Mary’s Hospital and Southampton Hospital under leading allergy specialists including Gideon Lack, John Warner and Jonathan Hourihane. For eight years, Dr Perkin led the Enquiring About Tolerance Study, then the world’s largest randomised controlled trial on introducing multiple allergenic foods in infancy, with findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2016. His research focuses on allergy prevention, eczema prevention, infant microbiome research, and food immunotherapy. His paediatric allergy service is currently developing rescue Peanut Oral Immuno-Therapy (POIT) for infants.
Dr Nicholas Peters
Clinical Lecturer, University of Birmingham
Nicholas Peters completed a PhD in the laboratory of Professor Geoffrey L Smith working on innate immune evasion by Vaccinia virus. He now works as a Clinical Lecturer and Honorary ST7 in Allergy, Clinical & Laboratory Immunology at the University of Birmingham.
Professor Nick Reynolds
Professor of Dermatology, Newcastle University, UK
Nick Reynolds is Professor of Dermatology and Director of Diagnostics at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne UK. He co-leads the Skin and Oral Disease theme of Newcastle’s NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and is a NIHR Senior Investigator. His clinical and research interests are centred on inflammatory skin disease, precision medicine computational models, artificial intelligence and therapeutics. Between 2016 and 2019, he was Director of Newcastle’s MRC/EPSRC Molecular Pathology Node, one of six units established in the UK to bring researchers, clinicians and industry together to develop molecular diagnostic tools for personalized medicine. He been involved with the A-Star atopic eczema registry since its inception and lead the associated bioresource (A-Star-bio).Nick was the inaugural chair of UK TREND, co-chairs the Educational Committee of the International Eczema Council, is a past President of the European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR) and the European Dermatology Forum (EDF). He has received a number of honours and awards, including: the Eugene M Farber Lecture, the Rudi Cormane Lecture and the Rook Oration. In 2026 he was awarded the British Society for Investigative Dermatology (BSID)medal.
Professor Matthew Ridd
NIHR Research Professor, GP & Professor of Primary Health Care, Director of Centre for Applied Excellence in Skin & Allergy Research (CAESAR), University of Bristol, UK
Matthew is a GP and Professor of Primary Healthcare at the University of Bristol, where he directs the Centre of Applied Excellence in Skin & Allergy Research (CAESAR), an interdisciplinary group of 14 researchers. His main research interests are the diagnosis and treatment of skin and allergy problems commonly seen in primary care. His main methodological expertise is in clinical trials, qualitative research, and systematic reviews. Has has secured >£32 million in research grants, published >130 peer-reviewed papers and delivered 16 national randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in primary care, including complex interventions, medicine and prevention studies. He is one of only four GPs to have ever held a NIHR Research Professorship, which currently funds the TOPIC (Transforming outcomes for paediatric allergy in primary care) programme. Trials recently completed/about the complete include ATHENA (Amitriptyline for the prevention of post-herpetic neuralgia) and TIGER (Trial of food allergy tests for Eczema Relief).
Professor Graham Roberts
Professor, University of Southampton, UK
Graham Roberts is a Professor and Consultant in paediatric allergy and respiratory medicine at University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. He is also the Director of the David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre on the Isle of Wight. He is Chair of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Adolescent and Young Adult Taskforce. Professor Roberts is Past President of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Dr Florence Roufosse
Professor of Medicine, Internist and Clinical Immunologist, Hospital Universitaire de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dr. Florence Roufosse is Professor of Medicine, Internist and Clinical Immunologist at HUB- Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, and is Past President of the International Eosinophil Society. She is in charge of a specialized consultation dedicated to diagnosing and treating eosinophil-related conditions, that is integrated in theEuropean Reference Network: EuroBloodNet. She also manages patients with systemic auto-immune and auto-inflammatory conditions. Besides these clinical activities, Dr. Roufosse leads translational research projects to improve understanding and treatment of lymphocytic variant hyper eosinophilic syndrome (HES) and participates in international research efforts to better delineate disease course and treatment responses in patients with HES. She is involved in the design and conduct of international clinical trials evaluating efficacy of novel treatment options for HES and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), as well as sub-studies that aim to identify biomarkers and/or disease variants predicting treatment responses.
Professor Sejal Saglani
Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
Professor Sejal Saglani leads the Paediatric Severe Asthma Group in the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London. She is consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital and part of the Paediatric Difficult Asthma Team. Professor Saglani’s clinical expertise and research interests include:
- Management of recurrent pre-school wheezing -management of school age difficult asthma
- Factors predicting progression of pre-school wheeze to school-age asthma
- The identification of novel therapies for pre-school wheeze and childhood severe asthma
- Mechanisms mediating severe pre-school wheezing and childhood asthma
Professor Saglani has established a translational research programme involving an integrated approach using a neonatal murine model, airway samples from children and direct application and clinical translation of her findings in interventional clinical trials.
Professor Sinisa Savic
Professor of Clinical immunology, University of Leeds
Professor Sinisa Savic is Professor of Clinical Immunology at the University of Leeds and Honorary Consultant Immunologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He previously lead specialist clinical immunology and allergy services, and has a clinical and research interest in chronic urticaria (CU). Over the past 15 years, he has helped shape the diagnosis and management of CU through translational research, international collaborations, and participation in pivotal clinical trials evaluating novel biologic and targeted therapies. In addition to his research, Professor Savic has extensive experience in developing national and international clinical guidance for immune-mediated diseases and is a recognised educator in allergy and clinical immunology. As Deputy Director of the Leeds NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, he continues to drive the development and evaluation of innovative therapies that improve outcomes for patients with chronic urticaria and other immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. He has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications and is committed to advancing evidence-based, patient-centred care.
Dr Louise Savic
Consultant Anaesthetist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Dr Louise Savic is a consultant anaesthetist with a clinical and research interest in drug allergy and perioperative anaphylaxis. Working closely with the Association of Anaesthetists, British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Clinical Immunology Professional Network, she leads the UK Perioperative Allergy Network – a cross-speciality working party for improving allergy care among surgical patients, including the implementation of routine penicillin allergy de-labelling.
Dr Guy Scadding
Consultant allergist, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
Guy is a consultant allergist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust. He has extensive experience of nasal allergen provocation testing and clinical rhinology.
Dr Aida Semic-Jusufagic
Consultant Paediatric Allergist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Dr Semic-Jusufagic is a consultant paediatric allergist at Leeds Children’s Hospital and a member and secretary of BSACI Adolescents and Young Adult Committee.
Professor Angela Simpson
Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, UK
Angela Simpson is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester, and Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, where she conducts clinics in allergy and adult asthma. Her research focusses on early life risk factors for asthma and allergies, allergen exposures, asthma diagnostics and food allergy. She has published > 230 peer reviewed original papers and reviews in academic journals and has an H-index of 75 with >20,000 citations. She has worked on the Manchester Asthma and Allergy Study (MAAS) since its inception in 1995. Her work has contributed to the understanding of phenotypes of wheeze and atopy and was an ‘early adopter’ of machine learning and Bayesian Inference in allergic disease. She is chief investigator of the Manchester Allergy Respiratory and Thoracic Surgery Biobank (ManARTS, >10,000 patients recruited from clinics). As asthma programme lead for the Manchester BRC, she set up the Rapid Access Diagnostics in Asthma Study (RADicA), findings of which informed the NICE 2024 asthma diagnostic guidelines. She was clinical lead for FSA funded Prevalence of Adult Food Allergy Study (PAFA,~ 5000 adults recruited), which highlighted the challenges of currently available tests for food allergy.
Dr Pasupathy Sivasothy
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust, UK
Dr Sivasothy is part of the Regional and National Vasculitis service based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital led by Professor David Jayne since 2000. He trained in Respiratory medicine in East of England. Has had a varied career being a respiratory career being lung transplant consultant at Royal Papworth and pleural lead whilst establishing the respiratory vasculitis service at Addenbrooke’s.
Dr Isabel Skypala
Consultant Allergy Dietitian, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, part of Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Dr Isabel Skypala is a consultant allergy dietitian who established and runs the food allergy service for adults at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, part of Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust in London. She is also an honorary Senior Clinical lecturer at Imperial College, London. Her research is focused on plant food allergy, and she has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and books. Dr Skypala has spent the last 25 years promoting the role of dietitians in allergy in the UK, the USA and Europe. She is currently the co-chair of the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI) Standards of Care Committee. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (EAACI) for 7 years and most recently chaired the Food Allergy Interest Group. She also leads the Plant Food Allergy Workgroup of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI). In recognition of her work and services to allergy, Dr Skypala received the BSACI William Frankland award in 2014, the AAAAI Allied Health Professional Recognition Award in 2022, and the EAACI Daniel Bouvet Award for Clinical Excellence in 2026.
Professor Maria Torres
Head Allergy Unit, Full Professor, Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga, Spain
As internationally renowned clinical scientist and medical leader, she serves as Past-President of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI). At the University of Málaga, she is a Full Professor of Medicine and Dermatology. She also leads the Allergy Service at the Regional University Hospital of Málaga, steering it to the maximum quality accreditation level via the Andalusian Health Quality Agency. She acts as Lead Researcher of the Precision Allergy Translational Hub (PATH) at IBIMA-BIONAND and manages an elite research ecosystem. She has been the Principal Investigator for 22 competitive regional, national, and European research projects and has supervised 20 doctoral theses. She has published 348 publications (H-Index (WOS) 68). An innovator and entrepreneur, she holds 9 patents—including one licensed by Diater Laboratories—and is a founding partner of the biotech company Bioherent. Her executive roles include serving as co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Allergy (Impact Factor 12.4), member of the Experts Committee of the EMA, and President of the Scientific Research Ethics Committee of Málaga.
Dr Paul Turner
Professor of Anaphylaxis, Paediatric Allergy & Immunology, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Paul Turner is Professor of Anaphylaxis, Paediatric Allergy & Clinical Immunology at Imperial College London. His research focusses on the pathophysiology of severe allergic reactions to food, and how this impacts upon allergen risk management and allergen labelling. Paul is a consultant to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and a previous senior advisor to the UK Food Standards Agency. He is also a panel member on the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation / World Health Organisation Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Food Allergens. He is vice-chair of the UK’s National Allergy Strategy Group, and current chairperson of the WAO Anaphylaxis Committee. Paul was the recipient of the 2020 PhARf Award, awarded by the European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.
Professor Gillian Vance
Professor of Medical Education and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Newcastle University, UK
Gill is Professor of Medical Education at Newcastle University and an honorary consultant in paediatric allergy at the Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. As a clinician and educator, her research focuses on the sustainability of the multi-professional healthcare workforce, including career choices, practitioner development and how workplace and education systems affect these areas. Gill co-leads an NIHR HSDR Workforce Research Partnership. She is Vice President for Education in the BSACI.
Dr Marta Vazquez-Ortiz
Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, UK
Marta is a clinical academic Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at Imperial. Her work focuses on translating discovery science into practical diagnostics and care pathways for food allergy, with a particular focus on Food Protein–Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES). She founded and leads BIO-FPIES, an international UK-Spain-Italy collaborative programme integrating clinical phenotyping with transcriptomics, proteomics and multi-omics approaches to define FPIES mechanisms, diagnostic signatures, severity risk-stratification tools and predictors of resolution. Her FPIES work spans clinical characterisation, biomarker discovery, evidence synthesis, patient-partnered outcomes and translation into clinical practice.
Alongside her research, Dr Vazquez-Ortiz has made major contributions to allergy education. She has served as Programme Director for the Imperial PGCert/PGDip/MSc in Allergy between 2015-2025, leading curriculum redesign, multimode delivery, authentic assessment and a scalable research-supervision platform for practising clinicians internationally. She was awarded Senior Fellowship of Advance HE in 2025 in recognition of her educational leadership. She also contributes to EAACI and BSACI education initiatives and taskforces, developing internationally used resources on adolescent allergy care, feeding difficulties, food allergy and clinical practice.
Dr Jill Warner
South Africa, Honorary Professor in Paediatrics, The University of Cape Town
Dr Jill Warner has worked for the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Brompton Hospital in London, the University of Southampton and Imperial College London. She is currently an Honorary Professor in Paediatrics at The University of Cape Town. Her research interests are in the foetal origins of allergic disease and environmental allergens. She has published over 100 peer reviewed papers and journal articles in the field of allergy. In her educational role she established and directed 2 postgraduate Masters programmes in Allergy, one in Southampton and one at Imperial College London and one in Paediatrics at Imperial. The programmes are attended by international students from a large number of countries and are based on a combined face to face and e-learning platform.
Dr Rosy Wells
Paediatric Allergy Consultant, St George’s Hospital, UK
Dr Rosy Wells has been a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at St George’s Hospital since 2018, where she also serves as Clinical Lead for the allergy service. Dr Wells graduated in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 2002 and completed her General Paediatrics training in London. During her training, she developed a strong interest in allergy, leading her to undertake RCPCH SPIN module in Allergy, MSc in Advanced Paediatrics and a Postgraduate Certificate in Allergy. She has been co-chair for the PAIID CSAC since 2024, supporting the development and delivery of subspecialty training.
Karen Wright
Allergy specialist dietitian, University of Southampton, UK
Karen Wright is an allergy specialist dietitian whose career spans clinical practice, research, education, and private practice. She has worked across the UK and in Asia, where she supported families managing food allergies across South East Asia. Following her return to the UK, Karen worked as an Allergy Research Dietitian, contributing to landmark food allergy prevention studies and peanut oral immunotherapy programmes, while also undertaking clinical leadership responsibilities. Karen is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Dietetics at the University of Southampton and is undertaking a PhD focused on food allergy prevention. Alongside this, she is a Clinical Teaching Fellow on the MSc Allergy programme, where she leads teaching, develops curriculum content, and supervises postgraduate research. She remains actively involved in professional education, research, and leadership within allergy dietetics, contributing to the development of evidence-based practice and the training of healthcare professionals in allergy care.