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This one-day study day will explore cutting-edge research, management strategies, and patient-focused care in food allergies, migration impacts, adolescence allergies, food manufacture and transitions to adult services.
Venue:
Governor's Hall
Date:
13/05/2025
Location:
St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH
Dr Thomas Marrs, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
09:30
If you only read 5 papers on Food Allergy this year….
Professor Adam Fox, BSACI Ex-President and Paediatric Allergy Consultant, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital
10:00
Investigating eosinophilic oesophagitis: Is it time for the new string theory?
Dr Efrem Eren, Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Immunology and Allergy, Southampton University Hospital
10:30
The next new peanut allergy treatment: are you VIRAL?
Professor Mohamed Shamji, Head, Immunomodulation and Tolerance Group, Imperial College London
11:00
Break
11:30
From field to factory to service: Competence and cracks in food allergen management
Dr Hazel Gowland, Expert Trainer and Researcher in Allergy Risks
12:00
Migration and working across the unknown
Dr Sara Abdelgalil, Consultant Paediatrician and Allergy Clinic Lead, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Taking over care: From child to adult
Dr Claudia Gore, Paediatric Allergy Consultant, St Mary’s Hospital
13:45
Patient voice
14:00
Key principles of the transition process
Dr Claudia Gore, Paediatric Allergy Consultant, St Mary’s Hospital
14:15
Living with food allergies – Sex, Drugs and Rock’ n Roll
Dr Anjali Rampersad, Paediatric Allergy Consultant, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
14:30
Why do young people die from anaphylaxis?
Professor Paul Turner, Paediatric Allergy Consultant and Clinical Professor in Anaphylaxis, Paediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology; St Mary’s Hospital/National Heart and Lung Institute
15:00
Break
15:15
Goals of immunotherapy and transition
Dr Nandinee Patel, Consultant Paediatric Allergist, St Mary’s Hospital
15:35
What maintaining food immunotherapy can mean for young people and adults
Dr Natasha Gunawardana, Consultant in Adult Allergy, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
16:05
Can we identify sustained unresponsiveness in practice?
Professor Paul Turner, Paediatric Allergy Consultant and Clinical Professor in Anaphylaxis, Paediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology; St Mary’s Hospital/National Heart and Lung Institute
16:30
Cases for considering transition in food immunotherapy services
Hannah Hunter, Specialist Allergy Dietitian, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
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