Curriculum Vitae
Graham Roberts DM MA MSc MRCPCH
Reader and Hon. Consultant Paediatrician, University of Southampton, UK
Present appointments:
Director, David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, St Mary’s Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight
Reader, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Division, University of Southampton
Honorary Consultant, Paediatric Allergy and Respiratory Medicine, SouthamptonUniversityHospital Trust
Address:
University Child Health, Level F South Academic Block (MP 803), SouthamptonUniversityHospital NHS Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD.
Tel: 023 8079 6160Fax: 023 80878847. Email:
Clinical activities:
Consultant paediatrician focusing my practice on allergic respiratory disease (including difficult asthma) and food allergy. I also participate in the acute paediatric on-take rota in Southampton.
Research activities:
These focus on (1) understanding the natural history of paediatric and early adult allergic disease and how we can modify this and (2) developing novel interventions to improve the management of paediatric allergic disease. I collaborate with colleagues throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.
Other activities:
I coordinate the undergraduate child health teaching in the University of Southampton. Nationally I am a member of the British Paediatric Respiratory Society difficult asthma group. At a European level I am the secretary of the EAACI taskforce on anaphylaxis in children (position paper in press in Allergy).
Education:
2000- 2003 Doctor of Medicine degree awarded September 2003 by University of Oxford
1999 – 2001 MSc Epidemiology, LondonSchool Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
1990 –1993 Oxford Clinical School,member of GreenCollege, Oxford BM BCh
1987 –1990 St Anne's College,University of OxfordBA(Hons) 2i in Physiological Sciences
Previous appointments:
2002-2004 Specialist respiratory training at Royal Brompton and RoyalLondonHospitals
1998-2000 Clinical Research Fellow, Paediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Imperial College of Medicine at St Mary’s, London
1994-1998 General paediatric training at St James’s Hospital in Leeds, St Mary’s Hospital in London and West Middlesex University Hospital
Selected publications:
Roberts G, Hurley C, Turcanu V, Lack G. Grass Pollen Immunotherapy as an Effective therapy for Childhood Seasonal Allergic Asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2006;117:263-8.
Venter C, Pereira B, Grundy J, Clayton CB, Roberts G, Higgins B,Dean T. Incidence of parentally reported and clinically diagnosed food hypersensitivity in the first year of life. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2006; 117, 1118-24.
Roberts G, Mylonopoulou M, Hurley C, Lack G. Impairment in quality of life is directly related to the level of allergen exposure and allergic airway inflammation. Clin Exp Allergy 2005; 35:1295-300.
Roberts G, Lack G. Diagnosing peanut allergy with skin prick and specific IgE testing. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005;115:1291-6.
Roberts G, Patel N, Levi-Schaffer F, Habibi P, Lack G. Food allergy as a risk factor for life-threatening asthma in children and teenagers, a case-controlled study. J All Clin Immunology2003;112:168-74.
Roberts G, Newsom D, Gomez K, Raffles A, Saglani S, Begent J, Lachman P, Sloper K, Buchdahl R, Habel A. Salbutamol bolus verses aminophylline infusion in severe asthma: a randomized controlled trial. Thorax 2003;58:306-10.
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Graham Roberts May 2007