9.00 am Registration, tea and coffee

9.30 am The changing prevalence of atopic diseases
Professor Peter Burney, Chair in Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute,Royal Brompton Campus, London

10.00 am Genetics of allergy and allergic disease
Professor William Cookson

10.30 am Clues on causation from population studies
Dr Seif Shaheen, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Campus, London

11.00 am Tea and coffee break

11.30 am New insights into basic mechanisms
Tbc

12.00 pm The evolution of allergic disease (the atopic march)
Professor John Warner, Chair in Paediatrics and Head of Paediatrics Department,
St Mary’s Campus, London

12.30 pm Lunch

2.00 pm Gut flora and atopy. A possible therapeutic target
Dr Claudia Gore, Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics, St Mary’s Hospital, London

2.30 pm Respiratory infections, allergy and asthma
Professor Sebastian Johnston, National Heart and Lung Institute, St Mary’s Campus, London

3.00 pm Tea and coffee break

HIGH DOSE ALLERGEN EXPOSURE AND AVOIDANCE
3.30 pm Food
Professor Gideon Lack

4.00 pm Aero allergens
Dr Paul Cullinan, Reader in Respiratory Epidemiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Campus, London

4.30 pm Completion of evaluation forms

4.35 pm Nutrition and allergy
Professor Philip Calder, Development Origins of Health and Disease, Southampton

5.05 pm Close of meeting

5 Credits (CPD Applied for)