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Adam Fox (allergist)

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Professor
Adam Fox
MA(Hons) Cantab., MSc, BS, DCH, FRCPCH, FHEAm Dip. Allergy
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
OccupationPaediatric Allergy Consultant[1]
EmployerEvelina London Children's Hospital [1]
Known forPaediatric allergies
AwardsRaymond Horton-Smith Prize
Websitewww.allergylondon.com/team/dr-adam-fox/

Adam Fox is a paediatric allergy consultant[2] and a child allergy specialist.[3] He is president of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,[4] and he won the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize in 2012 for his doctoral thesis.[5]

Education and career

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Fox read medicine and neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and completed his clinical training at University College London. Initially, Fox trained as a general paediatrician. However, he decided to specialise in paediatric allergies whilst doing his Master's in clinical paediatrics at Great Ormond St Hospital.[6] Fox took a specialist registrar post at St Mary's Hospital, London, which at the time was the only dedicated paediatric allergy research centre. Here, he became further specialised as a tertiary paediatric allergist.[7]

Fox spent nine years as the clinical lead of Allergy at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals, London and a further three years as their clinical director for Specialist ambulatory medicine.[8] He is currently the Commercial Medical Director for the hospital's NHS Foundation Trust.[9]

He helped lead the access of UK patients to treatments such as sublingual immunotherapy, established the largest NHS Children's clinic for this treatment.[4] Fox was the senior author of the International Milk Allergy in Primary Care (iMAP) guideline, published in 2017 and updated in 2019.[8]

In 2012 Cambridge University awarded him the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for his doctoral thesis on peanut allergies,[5]

In 2018, the British Society of Clinical Immunology elected Fox as their president.[8]

Awards

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Selected publications

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  • Ludman S, Shah N, Fox AT. Managing Cow's Milk Allergy in Children. British Medical Journal 2013;347:f5424.
  • Anagnostou K, Stiefel G, Brough HE, Du Toit G, Lack G, Fox AT. Active Management of Food Allergy – an emerging concept. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015 Apr;100(4):386-90.
  • Fox AT, Sasieni P, du Toit G, Syed H, Lack G. Household Peanut Consumption as a risk factor for the development of peanut allergy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.' 2009 Feb;123(2):417-23.
  • Fox AT, Kaymakcalan H, Perkin M, du Toit G, Lack G. Changes in peanut allergy prevalence in different ethnic groups in 2 time periods.  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2015 Feb;135(2):580-2.
  • Fox AT, Brown T, Walsh J, Venter C, Meyer R, Nowak-Wegrzyn A, Levin M, Spawls H, Beatson J, Lovis M-T, Vieira MC, Fleischer D. An Update to the Milk Allergy in Primary Care guideline. Clinical and Translational Allergy 2019.
  • Du Toit G, Katz Y, Sasieni P, Mesher D, Maleki SJ, Fisher HR, Fox AT, Turcanu V, Amir T, Zadik-Mnuhin G, Cohen A. Early consumption of peanuts in infancy is associated with a low prevalence of peanut allergy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2008 Nov 1;122(5):984-91. His most cited paper, it has been cited 885 times according to Google Scholar, [12]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Greenford schoolboy's cheese allergy death was 'unprecedented'". BBC News. 2019-05-03. Archived from the original on 2020-08-12. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  2. ^ Benedictus, Leo (2011-05-03). "The inside track on hay fever". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  3. ^ Fox, Adam (2010-11-26). "Children with allergies 'being let down'". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  4. ^ a b Purvis, Andrew (2012-12-15). "The Allergy Epidemic". The Times. Archived from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  5. ^ a b c "Doctor's research recognised by Cambridge University". Guys and St Thomas. 2013-01-22. Archived from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  6. ^ "Dr Adam Fox's publications" (PDF). Evelina London Children's Hospital. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  7. ^ Heffernan, Lisa (2019-10-08). "Ask a Top Paediatric Allergist: Professor Adam Fox". Top Doctors. Archived from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  8. ^ a b c "Professor Adam Fox". Bupa. Archived from the original on 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2021-02-01."Professor Adam Fox". Bupa. Archived from the original on 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  9. ^ "A2 - organisational structure" (PDF). Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01."A2 - organisational structure" (PDF). Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  10. ^ "2019 clinical excellence awards: England – new awards". Government of the United Kingdom. 2020-02-04. Archived from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  11. ^ "William Frankland Award". British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Archived from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  12. ^ [1] Google Scholar Author page, Accessed Aug 9, 2021