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Women and Children’s Research Seminar Series - Paediatric Allergy and Dermatology Research
This seminar is jointly hosted by King's Health Partners Women and Children's Health, and King's College London, Department of Women and Children's Health, and chaired by Dr Tomoki Arichi.
Speakers:
Professor Alexandra Santos is a Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Alexandra qualified in Medicine from the University of Coimbra, completed her training in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Coimbra University Hospital and her PhD in Allergy and Immunology at King’s College London, supervised by Professor Gideon Lack. Over the years, Alexandra has continued to combine clinical activity in Paediatric Allergy with clinical and laboratory translational research into food allergy. The Santos Lab aims to improve the accuracy and safety of food allergy diagnosis and our understanding of the mechanisms of food allergy and oral tolerance in IgE-sensitised children to identify new targets for definitive treatment of food allergy. Alexandra is Chair of the Board of the Immunology Section of European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), Chair of the EAACI Food Allergy Guidelines and voting member of EAACI Executive Committee.
Professor Carsten Flohr holds the Chair in Dermatology and Population Health Science at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, King’s College London, where he is also Lead for Research & Development. He has a particular interest in novel methods of atopic dermatitis (AD) prevention (early life risk factors), how AD links in with food allergies (transcutaneous sensitisation) and therapeutics, especially in severe AD.
Prof Flohr is a Founding Director of the International Eczema Council and Past President of the British Society of Paediatric Dermatology, as well as an Honorary Member of the Société Française de Dermatologie.
He leads the European (EuroGuiDerm/European Dermatology Forum) management guidelines for the atopic dermatitis with a colleague from Germany and is Founding Editor of the Evidence-Based Dermatology Section of the British Journal of Dermatology and the Clinical Trials Editor of the F1000 Atopic Dermatitis Section.
