Adam read Medicine at Cambridge University and is currently Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London & Consultant Paediatric Allergist at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. He spent 9 years as Clinical Lead for Allergy, 3 years as Clinical Director for Specialist Ambulatory Services and a further 5 years as Deputy Medical Director (Commercial) at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He was founding Director of the KCL Allergy Academy, a postgraduate educational programme, which was a finalist at the BMJ Awards in 2018.

Adam was elected as President of the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, the first Paediatrician to hold this position, from October 2018 until 2021, after which he took over the role of Chair of the National Allergy Strategy Group from July 2022. As part of this, he jointly chairs the Expert Advisory Group for Allergy with the Department of Health & Social Care and leads the 2025-35 National Allergy Strategy.

Together with Profs Gideon Lack & George Du Toit, he established The Allergy Centre of Excellence in London’s prestigious Harley Street Medical District to offer cutting edge allergy diagnostics and treatments.

Adam was awarded ‘Paediatric Allergist of the Year’ from Allergy UK in 2007. His doctoral thesis on peanut allergy received the Raymond Horton Smith prize from Cambridge University in 2012 and he was included in The Times ‘Britain’s 100 Best Children’s Doctors’. Adam received the William Frankland Award for Outstanding contribution to Allergy in 2015 and a Department of Health National Clinical Excellence award from the in 2016 and 2020. In 2024, Adam was the second person to receive the BSACI Fellows Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to clinical allergy.

In 2025, Adam was awarded an OBE for services to Paediatric Allergy as part of the King’s Birthday Honours list and included in ‘The Tatler Doctors List’ (2013 & 2026) of the best UK private medical consultants.