Helen Elizabeth Cox MBchB, FRCP, FRCPCH, MD

Dr Helen Cox is one of the few recognised UK specialists in paediatric allergy. She has extensive experience in the management of children with food allergy, eczema, asthma, hayfever, drug and insect sting allergy.

She read medicine at Cape Town University, followed by specialist training in pediatrics, immunology and allergy at Guys, Great Ormond street and the John Radcliffe Hospital. She was awarded her medical doctorate for research into eczema genetics. She is clinical lead consultant in Pediatric Allergy at Imperial College NHS Trust, and clinical course leader for the MSC in Clinical Allergy. She is an author of the NICE guideline for eczema and is helping develop national care pathways with the Royal College of Pediatrics and child health for children with allergic diseases.