Doctor Diana S. Church
MD, allergy specialist

Field of interest:

• All allergic disorders with special focus on food allergy, skin allergy, hay fever, asthma and immunotherapy (allergic desensitisation)

Professional Qualifications

• MD (1996)
• European Specialist Qualification in Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2003)

GMC registration no:

• 7021547

Current Position

• Visiting Research Fellow of the University of Southampton, School of Medicine
• Honorary Clinical Fellow of the Royal Brompton Hospital London

Experience

• 3 years working as an allergy specialist consultant
• Allergy and dermatology clinics at Southampton General Hospital
• Allergy clinics in food allergy, immunotherapy (including sublingual immunotherapy), difficult asthma and hay fever at the Royal Brompton Hospital London
• Lecturer in postgraduate courses on allergy for University of Southampton and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Current Memberships of Learned Societies:

• British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
• European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (member of the Immunotherapy section group)

Publications

Book chapters in allergy textbooks

Watelet J-B, McGill JI, Church DS, Pawankar R, Church MK, Allergic Rhinitis and Conjunctivitis: update on Pathophysiology. In Pawanker R, Holgate ST, Rosenwassr LJ, Allergy Frontiers: Volume 2: Classification and Pathomechanisms. Tokyo: Springer 2008

Church DS, Church MK. Principles of Pharmacotherapy of Allergic Disease. In Custovic A, Platts-Mills TAE. Managing Allergy. Oxford: Clinical Publishing; 2009: 195-214.

Books and publications for patients