Lucas, Dr Jane

MRCPCh PhD

Speciality

Paediatrics

Sub-speciality

Allergy and Respiratory

Training and Education

Specialist Registrar for completion of training in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine.  Letter of training for Paediatric Allergy.

Experience

Dr Lucas has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since April 2006 and has experience of tertiary respiratory and allergy paediatric care.

Jane Lucas is a consultant respiratory and allergy paediatrician at Southampton General Hospital and senior lecturer at the University of Southampton Medical School.

Jane treats children with a variety of disorders including food allergy, bee/wasp venom anaphylaxis, latex allergy, asthma and severe rhinitis, and leads a number of research programmes, investigating why children develop allergies and asthma, and how we can manage these allergies.

Jane graduated from Southampton School of Medicine in 1998. She completed her postgraduate clinical training in paediatrics, specialising in allergy and respiratory medicine in 2002. Alongside her clinical work with children with respiratory and allergic problems, she spent the next three years developing a research program investigating food allergens for which she was awarded a PhD from the University of Southampton in 2005.

In 2006 she was appointed to her current post and also took up the Directorship of the Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Service (PCD) in Southampton. In 2007 she was awarded a HEFCE senior lectureship to the Infection, Inflammation and Immunity division of the University of Southampton's School of Medicine.

Key achievements

Director of the NCG PCD Diagnostic Service for the South and South West of England.

Key awards and prizes

HEFCE Clinical Senior Lecturer Award - 2006
Michael Arthur Postgraduate Research in Clinical Sciences Prize, University of Southampton - 2005

Research

O’Callaghan C, Chilvers M, Hogg C, Lucas JS. Diagnosing PCD. (Editorial) Thorax 2007 Aug; 62(8);656-7.

Bush A, Chodhari R, Collins N, Copeland F, Hall P, Hardcourt J, Hairi M, Hogg, C, Lucas J, Mitchison H, O’ Callaghan C, Phillips G. Primary ciliary Dyskinesia: Current State of The Art. Arch Dis Child 2007 July 30 [Epub ahead of print]

Lucas JSA, Inskip HM, Godfrey KM, Foreman CT, Warner JO, Gregson RK, Clough JB. Small size at birth and greater postnatal weight gain: relations to diminished infant lung function. American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine 2004 Sep 1;170(5):534-40..

Lucas JSA, Atkinson R. What is an allergen? Opinion Paper Clinical and Experimental Allergy 2008, May [Epub ahead of print]

Lucas JS, Nieuwenhuizen NJ, Atkinson RG, Macrae EA, Cochrane SA, Warner JO, Hourihane JO. Kiwifruit allergy: actinidin is not a major allergen in the United Kingdom. Clin Exp Allergy. 2007 Sep;37(9):1340-8.

Lucas JSA, Lewis SA, Warner JO, Hourihane J. The effects of digestion on allergenicity of kiwi fruit proteins in patients with oral allergy syndrome and systemic reactors. Paediatric Allergy and Immunology. Dec 2007; [Epub ahead of print]

Clough GF, Lucas JSA. Reinventing the weal? (Editorial) Clin Exp Allergy  Jan 2007. 37(1).

Lucas JSA, Lewis SA, Grimshaw K, Trewin J, Warner JO, Hourihane J. Comparison of the allergenicity of Actinidia deliciosa (green kiwi) and Actinidia chinesis  (gold kiwi) Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2005 Dec;16(8):647-54.

Lucas JSA, Grimshaw K, Collins K, Warner JO, Hourihane J. Kiwi is a significant allergen and is associated with differing patterns of reactivity in children and adults. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 2004; 34: 1115-1121

Lucas JSA, Connett GJ, Fairhurst J. Long Term Results of lung resection in cystic fibrosis patients with localised lung disease- short report. Arch Dis Child 2002;86(1):66.