Meet the team
The paediatric immunology team is made up of:
Dr Michel Erlewyn-Lajeunesse|
Mich Lajeunesse is a consultant in paediatric allergy and immunology at Southampton University Hopsitals NHS Trust.
He is able to diagnose and treat children with a wide range of allergic and immunological problems.
Mich read microbiology at Swansea University before studying medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, now part of Imperial College, London.
He completed his postgraduate training in paediatrics, allergy, immunology and infectious diseases under Professor John Warner in Southampton and as a lecturer to the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children under Professor Adam Finn.
His doctoral research was on lung inflammation in children with wheezing in the early years of life.
He continues to have broad research interests in the field of paediatrics, allergy and immunology and in complementary and alternative medicine.
He is a qualified medical teacher and contributes to the running of Southampton University's Medical School's course in child health.
He is a member of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases.
He is on the national executive committee of the Children's HIV Association.
Dr Saul Faust|
Dr Anthony Williams
|Dr Williams is a consultant clinical immunologist/allergist in Southampton General Hospital and a senior lecturer at the University of Southampton School of Medicine.
He qualified from University College London Medical School in 1992 and undertook his clinical immunology and allergy training in Cardiff, Oxford and Southampton. He completed his Wellcome Trust PhD Fellowship in Molecular Immunology at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in 2002.
Dr Williams moved to Southampton in 2002 to complete his clinical immunology and allergy training within a four-year Wellcome Trust Clinical Scientist Award. He was appointed as a consultant clinical immunologist in 2003 and a senior lecturer in clinical immunology and allergy in 2006.
Dr Williams has expertise in the investigation and management of adults with a range of allergic disorders including anaphylaxis, latex allergy, venoms, urticaria and angioedema, immunotherapy and drug allergy. He also investigates and manages adults and children (jointly with paediatricians) with recurrent infections and unusual immune disorders.
Dr Williams is head of the immunology department which undertakes the laboratory investigations for allergic and immunologically-mediated diseases within the trust.
His clinical and research interests are in recurrent infections, allergen immunotherapy, anaphylaxis and developments in laboratory diagnostics for immunologically-mediated diseases.
He is actively involved in the University of Southampton MSc Allergy programme. He is a member of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) and the UK Primary Immunodeficiency Network (UKPIN).