Dr Kate Swan completed her paediatric training in London having read medicine at Cambridge University and after undergoing clinical training at Oxford University. She has worked in the Paediatric Allergy Department at St Thomas’ since 2011 when she was the inaugural Allergy Academy Education Fellow before completing her allergy subspecialty training. During this time she completed her Allergy MSc at Imperial College, London looking at the influence of exercise on skin reactivity in atopic children. She has recently been appointed as a consultant in paediatric allergy taking on the role of education lead and overseeing the adolescent allergy transition service.