Professor Gideon Lack is a consultant paediatric allergist at Guys and St Thomas Foundation Trust and a professor of paediatric allergy at Kings College London.Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments:Allergen desensitisationAllergy Blood TestsAllergy shots (immunotherapy)Allergic rhinitis (hay fever)Food AllergiesDrug AllergiesInsect or bee sting allergiesAllergiesAsthmaEczema (atopic dermatitis)Professor Lack earned his medical degree from Oxford University in 1985 and then went on to specialise in paediatrics in New York. He then further focused on paediatric and adult allergy while training in Denver, Colorado.He spent 12 years as the lead for the Department of Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at St Marys Hospital in London. He then joined Imperial College London and Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, respectively.He has a passion for research and is interested in the topics of asthma, peanut and food allergies, anaphylaxis, and desensitising vaccines.