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2011 Winter Meeting Original Communication Winner
Congratulations to Orla Power (WP1), University of Limerick who presented the best Poster Communication entitled A comparison of the insulinotropic and enterogastric response to ingestion of an equiva
Professor Jonathan Hourihane
Contact Details
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health,
College of Medicine and Health,
University College Cork
Tel: +353-21-4901237
Fax: +353-21-4345217
Email: j.hourihane@ucc.ie
Academic Background
Jonathan Hourihane is Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health in University College Cork, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1987 and entered paediatric training in the UK in 1990. He obtained a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Southampton in 1996, for his thesis entitled "Clinical and immunological features of peanut allergy". He completed his specialist training in allergy, immunology and infectious diseases at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2000. From 2001 to 2005 he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK.
Prof Hourihane is a partner in the GA2LEN Network of Excellence and the EU funded Europrevall research consortium, contributing to the socio-economic evaluation of food allergy, focussing on its impact on quality of life. He is a Board member of the Paediatric section of EAACI and was the founding chairman of the Paediatric Group of BSACI. He is an Associate Editor of the journals Clinical and Experimental Allergy and Paediatric Allergy and Immunology. He is a member of the Research Advisory Board of the US-based Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, and is a medical adviser to the Anaphylaxis Campaign in the UK.
Research Interests
His primary area of clinical and research interest is in paediatric food allergy and anaphylaxis with ongoing projects in the following areas: clinical and proteomic characterisation of emerging food allergens, oral tolerance induction, threshold doses of food allergens, immunomodulation of established allergic responses, prevention of allergic sensitisation, including use of pre- and probiotic-enhanced infant formulae and evaluation of quality of life in food allergic children. At FHI, Prof. Hourihane is involved in co-ordinating work programme 5 on early infant development, the focus of which is to identify new milk-derived ingredients to improve infant nutrition and ameliorate milk allergy, gut microbiology and inflammatory disorders.