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Professor Adam Fox is an expert consultant adult and paediatric allergist and immunologist and one of the founding consultants of the children's allergy service at the world-renowned Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, home to the UK's largest paediatric allergy centre. Professor Fox is one of only a handful of UK doctors with recognised higher specialist training in paediatric allergy. His specialist interests include the management of food allergies, eczema, asthma, rhinitis (including hay fever), conjunctivitis, and drug and insect sting allergy. From 2018 to 2021, he held the position of president of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, having become the first paediatrician to be elected into this role. Professor Fox remains a trustee of the organisation. In July 2022, he became the chair of the National Allergy Strategy Group, which involves working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care.
Professor Fox completed his clinical training at University College London, having read Medicine and Neuroscience at Cambridge University. He went on to complete specialist training in paediatric allergy in 2006, before spending nine years as clinical lead of allergy at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London; one of Europe's largest specialist allergy services, recognised as a Centre of Excellence by both the World Allergy Organisation and GALEN (European Asthma and Allergy Network). Following three years as clinical director for specialist ambulatory medicine, he began as commercial medical director for Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In 2021, with two of his colleagues, he established The Food Allergy Immunotherapy Centre at Great Ormond St Hospital. It was here, where Professor Fox administered the first patient outside of the US Palforzia, the first licenced food allergy desensitisation product.
In addition to his clinical work, Professor Fox has conducted extensive research and is actively involved in cutting-edge research in allergy desensitisation, asthma prevention, and food allergy, in setting up the largest allergen desensitisation programme in the UK. He has also published extensively and is the senior author of the Milk Allergy in Primary Care guideline, which has been adopted around the world and received the Allergy UK Innovation Award in 2018. Professor Fox is a professor of paediatric allergy at King’s College London, the founding director of the KCL Allergy Academy, an advisor to the Natio
