Executive Committee 

The Academy is run under the auspices of the Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology Division of KCL (part of the MRC and Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma - a partnership between the MRC, Asthma UK, Imperial College London, Kings College London (KCL) and partner NHS Trusts.

Executive Committee

	Professor Tariq Sethi is Head of Respiratory Medicine Kings Health Partners/Kings College London and was previously Professor of Respiratory and Lung Cancer Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Cambridge and London Universities followed by junior hospital jobs in London. He did a Ph.D at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund London and was subsequently appointed lecturer in Medicine at Edinburgh University. As an MRC Travelling Fellow, he worked at the Scripps Research Institute California, returning to Edinburgh as a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Leave Fellow. His research interests are on the interaction between inflammation and lung cancer, focusing the regulation of proliferation and apoptosis by growth factor and integrin mediated signalling. He has numerous scientific papers and edited books on lung cancer. Prof. Sethi is on the editorial board of THORAX and chairman of the Asthma(UK) Scientific Committee.
	Dr Adam Fox is a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the Children’s Allergy Service at St Thomas’ Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. Adam has a long standing interest in medical education and is the only UK allergist who is also an accredited member of the Higher Education Academy. He is also a commissioning editor for the Educational Case Series in Pediatric Allergy & Immunology and a council member of the BSACI. Adam will act as the Director of the Allergy Academy and have dedicated time to develop the educational programme. He will also act as the primary point of contact for our industry partners.
	Prof Gideon Lack is Professor of Paediatric Allergy at KCL and head of the Children’s Allergy Service at the Evelina Children’s Hospital. He is an international expert in food allergy as in principal investigator of the LEAP study – an interventional study looking at strategies to prevent the development of peanut allergy.
	Prof Chris Corrigan is a Professor in the Department of Asthma, Allergy & Respiratory Science at Guy’s, King’s & St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College, University of London. He particular research interests include therapy resistant and severe phenotypes of asthma. He also leads one of the UK’s largest allergen immunotherapy services at Guy’s Hospital and has an international reputation for his research in this area.
	Dr George Du Toit is a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the Children’s Allergy Service at the Evelina Children’s Hospital. He runs sub-specialist clinics in both Drug Allergy and Chronic Urticaria and is a co-investigator on the LEAP study. George has already established a highly successful series of specialist seminars in partnership with EAACI.
	Dr Kate Swan is the Allergy Academy Education Fellow and a Paediatric Registrar.  She is currently developing the educational content of the Allergy Academy website alongside a clinical role in paediatric allergy and working as a research doctor on two multi-centre paediatric allergy randomised controlled trials.  She is also studying for an MSc in Allergy at Imperial College, London.
	Sandra Hobbs is the Allergy Academy Administrator and has worked with the Academy since its inception.  Sandra has worked in medicine for 23 years.  Primarily working in the Haematology department at Farnborough Hospital, Kent.  Latterly involved in clinical trials at King’s College London.

The executive committee is also supported by an extensive Management Board which includes representatives of a variety of specialities related to Allergy such as Clinical Immunology, Dermatology and Gastroenterology from within our organisation together with representatives from Allied Professions including nursing and dietetics as well as external representatives from primary and secondary care and an international representative with a particular interest in Medical Education.