Aziz Sheikh trained in Physiology and Medicine, graduating from University College London in 1990 and 1993. After completing his training in general practice, he decided to pursue an academic career specialising in the field of epidemiology. He has held academic posts in the Departments of Primary Health Care & General Practice at Imperial College, London and Public Health Sciences at St George's Hospital Medical School, London. He has since August 2003 held the post of Chair in Primary Care Research & Development in the Centre for Population Health Sciences at The University of Edinburgh. He is an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Allergy in NHS Lothian. His major research interest is in studying the epidemiology and primary care management of asthma and allergic disorders, and he has published and presented extensively in this area in leading peer-refereed journals and international academic conferences/symposia.

Allison Worth trained as a nurse and worked in hospital and community settings and as a lecturer in nursing before undertaking a PhD and specialising in qualitative research. She currently manages the Allergy and Respiratory Research Group at The University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are in patient, family and health professional experiences of long-term illness and healthcare.

Ian M Adcock
Professor of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
National Heart & Lung Institute
Imperial College London, UK

N Franklin Adkinson Jr
Professor of Medicine
Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
John Hopkins Asthma & Allergy Center
Baltimore, USA

David Ahern
Research Associate
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
Oxford University, UK

Ignacio J Ansotegui
Head of the Department of Allergy and Immunology
Hospital Quiron Bizkaia
Bizkaia, Spain

Michael Ardern-Jones
Senior Lecturer / Consultant Dermatologist
University of Southampton, UK

S Hasan Arshad
Professor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK
And Director
The David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre
Isle of Wight, UK

M Innes Asher
Professor of Paediatrics
Department of Paediatrics, Child and Youth Health
The University of Auckland
New Zealand

K Frank Austen
Professor of Respiratory and Inflammatory Diseases
Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, USA

Sami L Bahna
Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine
Allergy & Immunology Section
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Shreveport, USA

David A Beuther
Chief Medical Information Officer/Assistant Professor of Medicine
National Jewish Health
Denver, USA

Stephan Bischoff
Direktor, Institut für Ernährungsmedizin
Universität Hohenheim,
Stuttgart, Germany

Jean Bousquet
Professor of Pulmonary Medicine
University of Montpellier
France

Jonathan Brostoff
Professor Emeritus, Allergy and Environmental Health
School of Medicine
Kings College London, UK

Simon G. A. Brown
Head, Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine
University of Western Australia
Crawley, Australia

Peter Burney
Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London, UK

A Wesley Burks
Professor of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, USA

Andrew Bush
Professor of Paediatric Respirology
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London, UK

William W Busse
Professor of Medicine
Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Wisconsin
Madison, USA

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr
Director, EMNet Coordinating Center
Department of Emergency Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA

Walter Canonica
Professor of Allergy and Respiratory Diseases
Speciality School of Pulmonary Diseases
Genoa University, Italy

Victoria Cardona
Head of Allergy Service
Hospital Vall d'Hebron
Barcelona, Spain

Stacy J Chin
Fellow, Division of Allergy and Immunology
Department of Pediatrics
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, USA

Martin K Church
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Department of Dermatology and Allergy
Allergy Centre Charitè
Charitè Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

William Cookson
Professor of Genomic Medicine
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London, UK

Paul Cullinan
Professor in Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London, UK

Sven-Erik Dahlén
Professor of Asthma and Allergy Research
Institute of Environmental Medicine
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

Michael Daines
Assistant Professor, Allergy and Immunology
University of Arizona
Tucson, USA

Ulf Darsow
Professor
Department of Dermatology and Allergy
Technische Universität München
Munich, Germany

Pascal Demoly
Head of Allergy
University of Montpellier
France

Graham Devereux
Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Department of Child Health
University of Aberdeen, UK

Ratko Djukanovic
Professor of Medicine
University of Southampton, UK

Anthony Dubois
Professor of Paediatric Allergy
University Medical Center Groningen
Groningen, Netherlands

Audrey DunnGalvin
Lecturer
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland

Stephen R Durham
Professor of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London, UK

Motohiro Ebisawa
Director, Department of Allergy
Clinical Research Center for Allergology and Rheumatology
Sagamihara National Hospital
Japan

Alan Edwards
Clinical Assistant
David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre
Isle of Wight, UK

Madeleine Ennis
Professor of Pharmacology
Centre for Infection and Immunity
School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
The Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast, UK

Alessandro Fiocchi
Director of Paediatrics
University of Milan
Milan, Italy

Carsten Flohr
NIHR Clinician Scientist, Senior Lecturer & Consultant
Departments of Paediatric Allergy & Dermatology
King's College London, UK

A William (Bill) Frankland
Emeritus Consultant
St Mary's Hospital
London, UK

Anthony J Frew
Professor of Allergy & Respiratory Medicine
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK

James Friedlander
Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics
Children's Hospital, Boston; Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA

Diane R. Gold
Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA

Hannah Gould
Professor of Biophysics
Division of Allergy, Asthma & Lung Biology
King's College London, UK

Paul Greenberger
Professor of Medicine
Division of Allergy-Immunology
Northwestern University
Chicago, USA

Stephen Holgate
MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology
University of Southampton, UK

Sarah E M Howie
Professor of Immunopathology
MRC Centre for Inflammation Research
The University of Edinburgh, UK

Brian Hurwitz
Professor of Medicine and the Arts
Department of English
King's College London, UK

Michael A Kaliner
Medical Director
The Institute for Asthma and Allergy
Chevy Chase, USA

A Barry Kay
Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Investigator
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London, UK

Frank J Kelly
Professor of Environmental Health
King's College London, UK

Sandra Kuiper
Senior Scientist, Pulmonary Diseases
CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care
Maastricht University
Netherlands

Gideon Lack
Professor of Paediatric Allergy
King's College London/St Thomas' Hospital, UK

Phil Lieberman
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Division of Allergy and Immunology
University of Tennessee
Germantown, USA

Mary Linehan
Honorary Research Fellow
University of Manchester
Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, UK

Richard F Lockey
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics & Public Health
Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
University of South Florida
Tampa, USA

Gailen D Marshall Jr
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, USA

Marcus Maurer
Professor of Dermatology and Allergy
Allergie-Centrum-Charité
Charité - Universitätsmedizin
Berlin, Germany

Wayne Morgan
Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology
Department of Pediatrics
University of Arizona, USA

Somnath Mukhopadhyay
Professor of Paediatrics
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK

Antonella Muraro
Head of the Veneto Food Allergy Referral Centre
Department of Paediatrics
University of Padua, Italy

Erika von Mutius
Professor of Pediatrics
University Children's Hospital
Munich, Germany

Parameswaran Nair
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Respirology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada

Shuaib Nasser
Consultant in Allergy and Asthma
Department of Allergy
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust, UK

Harold S Nelson
Professor of Medicine
National Jewish Medical and Research Center
Denver, USA

Anthony Newman Taylor
Principal of the Faculty of Medicine
Imperial College London, UK

Paul M O'Byrne
Professor
Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada

Robin E O'Hehir
Director
Department of Allergy, Immunology & Respiratory Medicine
Alfred Hospital and Monash University
Melbourne, Australia

Dennis R. Ownby
Betty B. Wray Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Medicine
Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology
Georgia Health Sciences University
Augusta, USA

Anant Parekh
Professor and Associate Head of Department
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
University of Oxford, UK

Hae-Sim Park
Professor
Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Ajou University School of Medicine
Suwon, Korea

Marc Peters-Golden
Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, USA

Wanda Phipatanakul
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital, Boston; Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA

Munir Pirmohamed
Professor and NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics
Department of Pharmacology
University of Liverpool, UK

Tom Platts-Mills
Professor of Medicine
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, USA

Todor (Ted) A. Popov
Associate Professor
Clinic of Allergy & Asthma
Medical University in Sofia,
Bulgaria

Johannes Ring
Director and Chairman
Department of Dermatology and Allergy
Technische Universität München
Munich, Germany

Graham Roberts
Professor & Consultant Paediatrician
University of Southampton, UK
and Director, David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre
Isle of Wight, UK

Lanny J. Rosenwasser
Professor of Pediatrics
Allergy-Immunology Division
Children's Mercy Hospital
and
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Basic Science
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Kansas City, USA

Thomas Ruzicka
Director, Department of Dermatology and Allergology
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Munich, Germany

Glennis Scadding
Consultant Physician
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
London, UK

Constant P van Schayck
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Scientific Director
CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care
Maastricht University
Netherlands

Jürgen Schwarze
Edward Clark Professor of Child Life and Health
Centre for Inflammation Research
The University of Edinburgh, UK

Malcolm Sears
Professor of Medicine
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada

Seif Shaheen
Clinical Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
London, UK

Aziz Sheikh
Professor of Primary Care Research and Development
Head, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group
Centre for Population Health Sciences
The University of Edinburgh, UK

Scott H. Sicherer
Professor of Pediatrics
Jaffe Food Allergy Institute
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, USA

Angela Simpson
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician
University of Manchester, UK

Helen E Smith
Professor of Primary Care
Brighton & Sussex Medical School
University of Brighton
Brighton, UK

Jasmeet Soar
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
Southmead Hospital
Bristol, UK

Karl J. Staples
Senior Research Fellow
Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences
University of Southampton, UK

Bruce R Thompson
Head, Physiology Service
Department of Allergy, Immunology & Respiratory Medicine
Alfred Hospital
Melbourne, Australia

Julian R Vyas
Respiratory Paediatrician
Starship Children's Hospital
Auckland, New Zealand

Tomohiro Utsunomiya
Instructor
Department of Allergy
Clinical Research Center for Allergology and Rheumatology
Sagamihara National Hospital
Japan

Ulrich Wahn
Professor
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Samantha M Walker
Executive Director, Research & Policy
Asthma UK
London, UK

Andrew J Wardlaw
Professor of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine
Department of Infection Immunity and Inflammation
University of Leicester, UK

John Warner
Professor of Paediatrics
Department of Paediatrics
Imperial College London
London, UK

Stephen I. Wasserman
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology Allergy and Immunology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, USA

Roy Gerth van Wijk
Professor of Allergology
Section of Allergology / Department of Internal Medicine
Erasmus MC
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Andreas Wollenberg
Professor
Department of Dermatology and Allergology
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Munich, Germany

Judith A Woodfolk
Associate Professor of Medicine
Asthma & Allergic Diseases Center
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, USA

Allison Worth
Senior Research Fellow
Allergy and Respiratory Research Group
Centre for Population Health Sciences
The University of Edinburgh, UK

Young Min Ye
Assistant Professor
Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Ajou University School of Medicine
Suwon, Korea

Torsten Zuberbier
Head of Allergy
Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergy
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany