Stephen Durham

⁎Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Section, University Hospital of Verona, Verona, Italy †Department of Immunology and Allergy Diseases, Ordu University Education and Training Hospital, Ordu, Turkey ‡Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California §Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy ǁAllergy and Clinical Immunology, Section Inflammation, Repair and...

The British Association of Allergists (later named the British Allergy Society, then the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI)) was formed in 1948. Dr Vera Walker, an ophthalmologist, wrote to Dr John Freeman, St Mary's Hospital, London suggesting this. She became the new society's first president, and the first secretary was Dr William (Bill) Frankland.