Dr Adam Fox
Dr Adam Fox is one of the UK's leading baby & child allergy specialists. He is one of a small handful of doctors in this country who has recognised higher specialist training in paediatric allergy. Adam has extensive experience treating asthma, food allergy, ezcema, rhinitis (hayfever) and conjunctivitis as well as drug and insect sting allergy. He is actively involved in medical research and was acclaimed 'Paediatric Allergist of the Year' in 2007 by Allergy UK.
Adam is a paediatric medical adviser to Allergy UK and Anaphylaxis Campaign; Honorary Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Allergy at King's College London; Council Member of the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology; and a Commissioning Editor for the medical journal Paediatric Allergy & Immunology. He has acted in an advisory capacity for the Department of Health, Food Standards Agency (FSA), BBC Horizon, Annabel Karmel, Dorling Kindersley and Advertising Standards Agency as well as acting as an expert witness in legal cases.
Adam regularly writes for medical journals and lectures around the world.
Qualifications:
Consultant Paediatric Allergist: MA(Hons),MSc, MB, BS, DCH, FRCPCH, FHEA, Dip. Allergy
Core belief/passion:
Children need to be treated holistically as individuals – not just according to their most obvious symptom
I like:
Finding an underlying problem, rather than treating a symptom
I don't like:
Assumptions
I love Viveka because:
It allows me to focus on my patients without distractions
I also work at:
Children’s Allergy Service, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals (NHS); and 79 Harley Street, London W1G 8PZ.
Find out more about Adam's work with children and babies at Viveka, plus more about Adam on his website.
