Professor George Du Toit

Professor George Du Toit is a consultant paediatrician with more than two decades of
experience treating and managing patients with complex allergies such as
eczema, food allergy, asthma, antibiotic allergy and hayfever. His team aim to
provide patient-centered and responsive care, backed by the highest safety standards and are supported by an experienced team of Nurses, Psychologists, Dietitians and Practice Management staff.

Professor Du Toit loves his chosen niche of Paediatric medicine and this is reflected in his excellent patient/family feedback.

Professor Du Toit holds private clinics at the Portland Hospital, Great Ormond
Street Hospital and in New Malden, Surrey; his NHS practice is at the Evelina
Children's Hospital, London. Online consultations are also possible with remote blood testing if needed. 

Professor Du Toit is one of the Directors of the TFAIC -
https://www.thefoodallergyimmunotherapycentre.com, based at GOSH. This service
provides desensitisation for peanut (using Palforzia) as well as other common food
allergens.

Professor Du Toit oversees Oral Food Challenge tests for the diagnosis of food allergy at
the TFAIC, and The Portland Hospital.

Professor Du Toit is renowned for his clinical research, having conducted landmark trials into the prevention and treatment of food allergies. He has served as an
Investigator on trials that have led to the licensing of Palforzia, and the
development of the EPIT peanut patch.

His most recent prestigious international awards include;

· Hugh A. Sampson Lectureship in Food Allergy at the 2022 AAAAI
Annual Meeting.

· UK Dept Health and Social Care Advisory Committee on Clinical
Excellence Awards (ACCEA) Bronze award 2021

· Daniel Bovet Award for Allergy Treatment and Prevention by the
European Association of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2020

· Dr William Frankland Award for Outstanding Contribution to
Allergy by the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology in 2020

Education:

MBBCh University of Witwatersrand 1993

FCP College of Medicine SA 1999

DCH College of Medicine SA 1996

MMeD University of Cape Town 2000

Dip.Allergy College of Medicine SA 2002

FRCPCH Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 2003

FAAAAI AAAAI USA 2007

Memberships:

Chair of EAACI Paediatric Section

Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the Evelina Children’s Hospital

Reader in Paediatric Allergy, Kings College London

Co-investigator on Learning Early about Allergies to Peanut studies

Palisade and Artemis (Peanut Desensitisation Trials) principal investigator

Executive member of Allergy Academy, King’s College London

Honorary Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

Honorary senior lecturer, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Cape Town University