Allergy Frontiers:Diagnosis and Health Economics

Diagnosis and DD of Allergic Diseases.- History of Allergy.- Allergy Diagnosis.- Nasal and Bronchial Provocation Tests.- Nasal and Bronchial Nonallergic Provocation Tests.- Sputum Tests and Exhaled NO in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Asthma.- Lung Function and Bronchial Challenge Testing for the Allergist.- Investigative Bronchoprovocation and Bronchoscopy in Patients with Bronchial Asthma.- Exhaled NO in Asthma.- Basophil Activation Tests for Allergy Diagnosis.- CD203c for Allergy Diagnosis.- Flow-Assisted Analysis of Basophils: A Valuable Instrument for In Vitro Allergy Diagnosis.- Recombinant Allergens for the Diagnosis and Treatment of House Dust Mite Allergy.- Diagnosis of Occupational Rhinitis.- Asthma: Clinical Descriptions and Definitions.- Occupational Asthma.- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.- Clinical Aspects and Diagnosis of Atopic Eczema.- Clinical Aspects and Diagnosis of Anaphylaxis.- Angioedema in the Emergency Department.- Diagnosis of Aspirin Sensitivity in Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease.- Food Allergy: Diagnosis of Food Allergy.- Evaluation of the Patient with Photosensitivity.- Clinical Manifestations of Allergic Diseases: Drug Hypersensitivity.- State of the Art: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.- Monitoring the Allergic Inflammation.- Allergy and Asthma Education.- Asthma Patient Education.- The Costs of Allergy and Asthma and the Potential Benefit of Prevention Strategies.- Outcome Measures in Asthma Management.

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,