Dr Brian Vickery
Dr Brian Vickery is the Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University and the founding Director of the Food Allergy Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Prior to Children’s, Brian held faculty positions at Duke University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. While working at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, he led a group that was first to show sustained unresponsiveness can occur after peanut OIT. He subsequently demonstrated that early treatment of peanut-allergic preschool children with OIT is safe and leads to better outcomes.
He has also contributed to the development of national food allergy treatment guidelines. Dr Vickery has received several awards for clinical care as well as research awards from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, and the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.