Английская Википедия:Adam Fox (allergist)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Adam Fox is a paediatric allergy consultant[1] and a child allergy specialist.[2] He is President of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,[3] and he won the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize in 2012 for his doctoral thesis.[4]

Education and career

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.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7] He is currently the Commercial Medical Director for the hospital's NHS Foundation Trust.[8]

He helped lead the access of UK patients to treatments such as sublingual immunotherapy, established the largest NHS Children's clinic for this treatment.[3] Fox was the senior author of the International Milk Allergy in Primary Care (iMAP) guideline, published in 2017 and updated in 2019.[7]

In 2012 Cambridge University awarded him the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for his doctoral thesis on peanut allergies,[4]

In 2018, the British Society of Clinical Immunology elected Fox as their president.[7]

Awards

Selected publications

  • 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, [11]

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