Lisa Waddell: BDA-Registered Freelance Dietitian, Harrow Rd, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 7DU, UK

Lisa Waddell is Director of her private business; Food Allergy Nottingham Service Ltd (FANS) and also works part time for the NHS as lead community paediatric dietitian. She is an expert in paediatric food allergy and has over 20 years’ experience helping families identify whether their infant/ young child is suffering from food allergy or other feeding related problem.  She has been involved in numerous working groups such as the NICE food allergy guidelines and RCPCH food allergy care pathway working groups, an expert advisor for NICE and member of the iMAP development team.  A lot of her private work involves lecturing, which includes being a member of the RCPCH paediatric allergy training faculty and a facilitator on the BDA cow’s milk allergy accredited course.  She is also involved in research, being part of the NIHR TEST (Trial of eczema allergy screening tests) research trial and produces many allergy free dietary publications for the BDA.