Professor John O Warner

John Warner did his undergraduate medical training in the School of Medicine, University of Sheffield and his initial paediatric experience was in the Children's Hospital, Sheffield working under the mentorship of Professor Ronald Illingworth.  He acquired his MRCP(UK) having worked for two years in adult medicine with a particular focus on respiratory disease.  He then moved to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street as a Registrar and subsequently a Research Fellow and then Senior Registrar rotating through Queen Elizabeth hospital, Hackney and the London hospital.  His first consultant post was a joint appointment between St Mary's and the Brompton hospital.  He then moved to Southampton as Professor of Child Health in 1990 and finally back to St Mary's hospital as Professor of Paediatrics and Head of Department in September 2006. Since 2008 he has been the Director of Research for the Women and Children's Clinical Programme Group, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He has recently been elected as the next President of the APA (GBI).   

His research has focused on the early life origins of asthma and related allergic and respiratory disorders.  He has published over 300 papers in scientific journals on these topics.  He is currently Editor in Chief of the journal Pediatric Allergy and Immunology and on the editorial board of Pediatric Pulmonology.  Currently he is Chairman of the paediatric section of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology.  He is also a member of the Speciality and Training committee of the World Allergy Organisation and a Trustee of the charity known as The Anaphylaxis Campaign. He is a member of the Advisory Committee for Novel Foods and Processes of the Food Standards Agency.

A summary of his research can be found in Developmental origins of health and disease edited by P Gluckman and M Hanson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2006 pp 349-369. Developmental origins of health and disease

He is currently working with Asthma UK on a new study to discover whether women who take vitamin D supplements during pregnancy are lowering their child's asthma and allergy risk.