Roberts, Professor Graham

DM MA MSc MRCPCH

Speciality

Paediatrics

Sub-speciality

Paediatric allergy and respiratory medicine

Training and education

Graham Roberts qualified in medicine from the University of Oxford. He undertook his paediatric training in Leeds and London. He completed a four year clinical research fellowship in paediatric allergy and respiratory medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary’s under the supervision of Professor Gideon Lack. Professor Roberts completed his training in paediatric respiratory medicine at The London Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital.

Experience

Professor Roberts has worked for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust since November 2004. 

Professor Roberts treats children with allergies and respiratory problems in his clinic and also cares for children admitted with respiratory and allergy problems at Southampton General Hospital.

Professor Roberts is the joint director of the David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre on the Isle of Wight and has a large research programme in Southampton and on the Isle of Wight, focusing on understanding why children develop allergies and asthma and looking at how their lives can be improved. These projects are run in collaboration with many of his allergy and respiratory colleagues in Southampton and the rest of Wessex.

Professor Roberts' research programme is currently funded by MRC, NIH, NIHR and the Food Standards Agency and he is chair of the paediatric board of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 

Key achievements

Elected chair of paediatric section of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2011. Published position statement on the management of anaphylaxis in childhood in 2007.

Research

Graham Roberts was appointed clinical senior lecturer at the University of Southampton in 2004 and director of the David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre in 2005. Promoted to Reader in 2007 and professor in 2011. His current research interests are the pathogenesis and natural history of childhood asthma and related atopic diseases and improving our management of asthma and other atopic diseases.