Training and experience

Dr Helen Brough graduated from King’s College, Cambridge University, with double honours in Medicine and Experimental Psychology before completing her clinical training at the Royal Free and University College London Medical School.

Choosing to specialise in paediatrics, Helen undertook her specialist training on the South London Paediatric training rotation before taking up a UK Higher Specialist Training post in Paediatric Allergy and Immunology. This prestigious post allowed her to train at three leading London teaching hospitals: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. During this training, Helen also completed an MSc in Allergy from the University of Southampton and was awarded a PhD from King’s College London University for her work in determining routes of developing peanut allergy.

Helen is a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, St Thomas’ Hospital, where she is Clinical Lead for Paediatric Allergy, the largest service of its kind in the UK and one of the largest in Europe. In her NHS role, she currently runs general allergy clinics and leads the joint specialist Allergy/Respiratory service, having previously led the joint specialist Allergy/Gastroenterology service and the joint Allergy/ENT clinics. She was also responsible for establishing, and continues to run, community Children’s Allergy services, including an educational programme for primary care, and Allergy Transition services designed to help teenagers better manage their allergies.

An honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, Helen teaches on the Paediatric MSc course, the Immunology MSc course and the Allergy Academy and the Centre of Excellence international fellowship course. She is the co-chair for the European Allergy (EAACI) Congress 2020 due to be held in London.

Helen is on the Health Advisory Board for Allergy UK and chairs the national atopic eczema guideline group for the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Standards of Care Committee.

Awards

Helen Webb Prize for Paediatrics and Child Health (2002)

Esther Frances White Memorial Prize (2002)

Distinction in Pharmacology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology (2002)

Royal Free and Blackwell Science Prize for Academic Excellence (2000)

Coeliac UK ‘Health Professional of the Year’ runner-up (2010)

BSACI Barry Kay Ward for research in Paediatric Allergy (2013)

Distinguished Clinician Award from the American Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2020)