Professor Adam Fox MA(Hons) Cantab., MSc, BS, DCH, FRCPCH, FHEAm Dip. Allergy | |
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Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Occupation | Paediatric Allergy Consultant [1] |
Employer | Evelina London Children's Hospital [1] |
Known for | Paediatric allergies |
Awards | Raymond Horton-Smith Prize |
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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]
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]