Professor Graham Roberts DM, FRCPCH, MA, MSc

Professor and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician in Paediatric Allergy and Respiratory Medicine

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Professor Graham Roberts is Professor and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician in Paediatric Allergy and Respiratory Medicine within Medicine at the University of Southampton.

Graham Roberts qualified in Medicine from the University of Oxford. He undertook his paediatric training in Leeds and London. He completed a 4 year clinical research fellowship in paediatric allergy and respiratory medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary’s in Professor Gideon Lack’s group. Graham Roberts was awarded a MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He completed his doctoral thesis on the safety and efficacy of immunotherapy for childhood allergic asthma. His other research interests included exhaled nitric oxide, quality of life in allergic disease, severe childhood asthma, improving the diagnosis and management of childhood food allergy and, in collaboration with the ALSPAC study, the epidemiology of childhood aeroallergen, food and latex allergy. Graham Roberts completed his training in paediatric respiratory medicine at The London Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital.

Graham Roberts took up an appointment as a clinical senior lecturer in paediatric allergy and respiratory medicine in October 2004. He was promoted to Reader in 2007 and to Professor in 2011. He is also the joint Director of the David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre on the Isle of Wight. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Clinical and Experimental Allergy (impact factor 5.026). He is coordinator of the Executive Committee of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EACCI) Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Guidelines update. Previously he was on the EACCI Executive Committee and previous Chair of the EACCI Paediatric Section.

Graham Roberts has a translational epidemiological research programme. It focuses on the pathogenesis and natural history of childhood asthma and food allergy together with the development of new strategies to improve the management of asthma. This involves studies in Southampton, at the David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre in the Isle of Wight and in collaboration with colleagues at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, St Thomas’s Hospital, London.

Graham Roberts works clinically within the Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust as a paediatrician specialising in allergy and respiratory medicine. Additionally he supervises PhD students, lectures on the Allergy MSc and teaches undergraduate Medicine students.

Qualifications

Doctor of Medicine, University of Oxford (2003)
MSc, Epidemiology, London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2001)
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (1996)
MA, University of Oxford (1996)
BM BCh, University of Oxford (1993)
BA(Hons) 2i, Physiological Sciences, University of Oxford (1990)

Appointments held

Specialist Registrar, Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London. September 2003 to September 2004.
Specialist Registrar, Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal London Hospital, London. September 2002 to August 2003.
Clinical Research Fellow, Paediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Imperial College of Medicine at St Mary’s, London . September 1998 to September 2002.
Specialist Registrar, General Paediatrics and Neonates, West Middlesex University Hospital. September 1997 to September 1998.
Registrar, General Paediatrics, Community and Neonates, St Mary’s University Hospital, London. August 1996 to September 1997.
Paediatric Senior House Officer, St James's University Hospital, Leeds. August 1994 to August 1996.
Paediatric House Surgeon, The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow.
February to July 1994.
House Physician, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. August 1993 to January 1994.