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Assoc Prof Pete Smith

Assoc Prof Pete Smith  MB BS   BMedSc   PhD   FRACP 

Allergist 

Allergist and world expert on Allergic Pain

Special Interests

  • Food Allergy
  • Eosinophilic Oesophagitis 
  • Neural Mechanisms of Inflammation 

Procedures

  • Allergy Testing
  • Desensitisation Therapy 
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PRIMARY CONTACT DETAILS

Telephone:
(07) 5591 5744
Facsimile:
(07) 5503 1299
Group:
Assoc Professor Pete Smith
Address:

Suite 4. Level 5

Pacific Private Clinic

123 Nerang Street

Southport QLD 4215

Website:
AllMedic.org.au

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE


Boards

  • Nestle Nutrtion Institute and Nutricia Nutrition Advisory Board
  • World Allergy Organisation - Web Editorial Board
  • Allergy Academy Management Board
  • GSK global advisory board rhinitis (also Australian advisory board)
  • Alcon international advisory board rhinitis

Memberships
  • Australian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA Allergy.org.au)
  • American Academy of Asthma Allergy and Clinical Immunology (AAAAI.org)
  • European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EACCI.org)
  • World Allergy Organisation (WorldAllergy.org)


Allergist and World expert on Allergic Pain

Associate Professor in Clinical Medicine at Griffith University. He has PhD in molecular immunology but does not practice clinical immunology, choosing to concentrate on Allergy, its clinical manifestations and the neural mechanisms of inflammation

Medical Education

  • Associate Professor Smith in 2009 has been invited to present research and allergy education within several states of Australia, Singapore, the Philippines, Korea, the USA, South America, Europe, the middle-east, Indonesia and Malaysia. He also has a medical education company MedicalMediaKits.com which produces teaching media for health education and has several employees. His projects have won several international awards.

AllMedic [AllMedic.org.au]
  • With his background in molecular immunology, Associate Professor Smith was approached in early 2007 to participate in a project to create evidence based skin care. The aim of this like-minded group of doctors to create simple, cost effective skin care treatment with evidence based ingredients which are used at demonstrated efficacy, and created in a pharmaceutical environment, and with a minimal of ingredients which are likely to complicate things and cause reactions.
  • We have also been focused on using photodynamic therapy where a compound called ALA is taken up into metabolically active (generally abnormal cells) in the skin and in the presence of light frequencies, abnormal cells are destroyed.
  • This is being used in the US for field changes with several types of skin anomalies including superficial forms of skin cancer (not melanoma) although it is also used for skin rejuvenation. Through Allmedic, Associate Professor Smith is working on reducing pain associated with skin inflammation with PDT and he is going to be working towards skin pain with dermatitis in the next couple of year.

Qualifications

MB BSUTasBachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
BMedScUTasBachelor of Medical Science
PhDFlindersDoctor of Philosophy
FRACPFellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Affiliations

Unknown

LANGUAGES & GENDER

Languages

  • English

Gender

  • Male

INTERESTS & PROCEDURES

Special Interests

  • Allergy
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Eosinophilic Oesophagitis
  • Food Allergy
  • Food Intolerance
  • Neural Mechanisms of Inflammation

Procedures Performed

  • Allergy Testing
  • Desensitisation Therapy

Exclusions

  • (no exclusions listed)

ARTICLES & RESEARCH

Current Research

  • Genetics and mechanism of food allergy
  • Neural mechanisms in rhinitis and inflammation

Textbook
  • Strobel S, Smith P, El Habbal MH, Spitz L. Eds The Great Ormond Street Colour Handbook of Paediatric Medicine and Surgery Manson Publishing 2006 ISBN 1-874545-27-8
Selected Recent Scientific Publications
  • Hourihane JO, Smith PK, Strobel S. Food allergy in children. Indian J Pediatr 2002 Jan;69(1):61-7
  • Mullins RJ, Heddle RJ, Smith P. Non-conventional approaches to allergy testing: reconciling patient autonomy with medical practitioners’ concerns. Med J Aust. 2005 Aug 15;183(4):173-4.
  • Smith PK, Fox AT, Davies P, Hamidi-Manesh L. Cyberchondriacs. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine & Health 2006;18(2):209-13.
  • Smith PK, Harper J. Serine Proteases (Serpins): their inhibitors and Allergy. Allergy. 2006 Dec ;61 (12):1441-7
  • Sugnanam KKN, Collins J, Smith PK et a.l Dichotomy of food and inhalant allergen sensitization in eosinophilic oesophagitits. Allergy 2007 Nov;62(11):1257-60
  • Prescott SL, Smith P, Tang M, Palmer DJ, Sinn J, Huntley SJ, Cormack B, Heine RG, Gibson RA, Makrides M The importance of early complementary feeding in the development of oral tolerance: Concerns and controversies Paediatric Allergy and Immunolgy 2008 Aug;19(5):375-80. Epub 2008 Feb 9