Professor Stephen Till

Professor Stephen Till is a consultant in Adult Allergy practising at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital and the London Bridge Hospital. He is also a Senior Lecturer and Consultant at King’s College London.

Professor Till is a known expert in allergic rhinitis, food allergies and immunotherapy/desensitisation for allergic disease. Professor Till qualified as a doctor at University College London. He held a scholarship at the University of Oxford and completed a PhD in Allergy from Imperial College. He underwent five years of specialist training in Allergy at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. At present, he is one of the relatively few consultants listed on the GMC specialist register as an Allergist.

Professor Till combines his medical practice with an interest in research, teaching and the supervision of PhD students. He conducts academic research in the fields of food allergy, immunotherapy and immunology and is author on a range of peer-reviewed publications over a 20 year period. His research had been funded by the National Institute of Health research and the Medical Research Council. In 2009 prof Till was given the World Allergy Organisation Henning Lowenstein Award for his academic research into Allergy.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Immmotherapy/desensitisation for allergic rhinitis

Molecular allergy tests

Oral food challenge testing

Drug allergy testing e.g. for antibiotics, local anaesthetics, NSAIDs, intravenous contrast

• Adult allergies
• Severe food allergy
• Allergic rhinitis (hay fever)
• Asthma
• Immunotherapy/desensitisation for allergic disease
• Drug allergy
• Urticaria (hives)
• Angioedema
• Bee/wasp venom allergy
• Anaphylaxis