Allergy Frontiers:Therapy and Prevention

Therapy and Prevention of Allergies.- Allergen Avoidance and Prevention of Allergy.- Pharmacotherapy of Allergic Rhinitis.- Antihistamines in Rhinitis and Asthma.- Antiallergic and Vasoactive Drugs for Allergic Rhinitis.- Antileukotrienes in Asthma and Rhinitis.- Mechanisms of Action of ?2 Adrenoceptor Agonists.- Alkylxanthines and Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitors for Allergic Diseases.- Glucocorticoid Insensitive Asthma.- Recalcitrant Asthma.- Mechanisms and Management of Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction.- Use of Theophylline and Sodium Cromoglycate in Adult Asthma.- New Insights into Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy in Rhinitis and Asthma.- Sublingual Immunotherapy in Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma.- Anti-IgE in Allergic Airway Diseases: Indications and Applications.- Drug Delivery Devices and Propellants.- Update on the Management of Atopic Dermatitis/Eczema.- Immunosuppressants as Treatment for Atopic Dermatitis.- Management of Anaphylaxis.- Anaphylaxis: Are Regulatory T Cells the Target of Venom Immunotherapy?.- Food Allergy: Opportunities and Challenges in the Clinical Practice of Allergy and Immunology.- Early Immunological Influences on Asthma Development: Opportunities for Early Intervention.- Asthma and Allergy in Childhood: Prediction and Early Diagnosis.- Early Interventions in Allergic Diseases.- Birth Cohort Studies for the Prevention of Allergy: New Perspectives-Where Do We Go from Now?.- Novel Immunomodulatory Strategies for the Prevention of Atopy and Asthma.- Recombinant Allergens for Therapy and Prevention: Molecular Design and Delivery of Allergy Vaccines.- Prevention of Allergic Diseases.- Emerging Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Therapies Targeting Specific Mechanisms in Asthma and Allergy.- Special Considerations in Children, Elderly andPregnancy.- Asthma and Rhinitis in Pregnancy.- Asthma in the Elderly.- The Natural History of Childhood Asthma.- The Wheezing Infant and Young Child.- Acute Severe Asthma in Children.- Best Estimates of Asthma

Prof. Stephen Holgate

MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology

Division of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

University of Southhampton School of Medicine

Applying basic science to the clinical interface in allergy and asthma has been the guiding principle of Prof. Stephen Holgate's career. This has involved him in environmental and genetic epidemiology, physiology, cell and molecular biology of disease processes as they occur in humans. An AAAAI member since 1986 and Fellow from 1993, Professor Holgate has been active in the field of allergy and immunology both in the United Kingdom and overseas and in 2001 received the Academy's Honorary Fellow Award. He was President of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) from 1990-1993 and the Robert Cook Memorial Lecturer in 1995 and 2000. He received the RCP London Graham Bull Prize for research and was elected an honorary member of the Association of Physicians in UK and Ireland following the delivery of the Sir William Osler Lecture in 2003. He has been an active contributor to the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum since 1990.

Professor Holgate is a member of the Infection, Inflammation and Repair Division in the School of Medicine, University of Southampton at Southampton General Hospital, UK and since 1987 has held a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Professorship. He received his undergraduate medical training at Charing Cross Hospital, London and specialised in respiratory medicine and allergy. He holds Fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Pathologists, Institute of Biology and Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and has been a censor of the Royal College of Physicians. He has served on a number of Government Committees including the Sub-committee for Efficacy and Adverse Drug Reactions of the CSM (SEAR), MRC Project Grant Committee, Systems Board, Cross