Pamela Ewan

Pamela Ewan is one of the leading allergists in the UK and head of the Allergy Department in Cambridge, a leading centre in the specialty. In 1988 she set up the allergy research program at Cambridge University Hospitals, along with the clinical allergy service, which is now one of the largest in the UK.

Pam is experienced in all aspects of clinical allergy. Her special interests are nut allergy, anaphylaxis and venom allergy. She has a large clinical experience in nut allergy. She has been working on nut allergy for 20 years and her research has led to better understanding of this condition and to improvements in patient care. She has developed an effective collaboration with Dr Andrew Clark, and they most recently developed a programme of desensitisation to treat peanut allergy.

In various national roles she worked to highlight the need for allergy care and to improve NHS allergy services, for which she was awarded CBE. She is chair and co-founder of the National Allergy Strategy Group and past President of the British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology.