Adam read Medicine at Cambridge University. From 2006, he spent 9 years as clinical lead for Allergy (Adult & Paediatric) at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London. After 3 years as Clinical Director for Specialist Ambulatory Medicine, he was Deputy Medical Director for Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2018-23). He is also a Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London and the founding Director of the KCL Allergy Academy, a postgraduate educational programme, which was a finalist at the BMJ Awards in 2018.
He was elected as BSACI President, the first Paediatrician to hold this position, from October 2018 until 2021, after which he took on the role of Chair of the National Allergy Strategy Group from July 2022, chairing the Expert Advisory Group for Allergy with the Department of Health & Social Care and is lead for the 2025-2035 National Allergy Strategy.
Adam was awarded ‘Paediatric Allergist of the Year’ from Allergy UK in 2007. His doctoral thesis on peanut allergy received the Raymond Horton Smith prize from Cambridge University in 2012 and he was included in The Times ‘Britain’s 100 Best Children’s Doctors’ as well as included in the ‘Tatler Doctor’s List’ of UK’s best private doctors in in 2013 and 2026. Adam received the William Frankland Award for Outstanding contribution to Allergy from the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology in 2015 and a National Clinical Excellence award from the UK Department of Health in 2016 and 2020. In 2024, Adam became only the second person to receive the BSACI Fellows Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to clinical allergy. In 2025, Adam was awarded an OBE for services to Paediatric Allergy as part of the King’s Birthday Honours list.
Together with two colleagues he established the Allergy Centre of Excellence at Great Ormond St Hospital in 2021, initiating the first patient outside of the US on Palforzia (the first licenced food allergy desensitisation product). The centre has now relocated to its own premises in the Harley Street Medical District, and is the only allergy hospital of its kind in the UK, offering cutting edge treatment and clinical trials, backed up by the highest safety standards and a large team of experienced clinicians.