Dr Lauri-Ann Van der Poel

specialty Paediatrics + Allergies

SPECIAL EXPERTISE IN Allergy/Urticaria/Hives/Nettle Rash + Food Allergies + Hayfever Including Immunotherapy + Infants at Risk of Allergies

profile

Lauri-Ann is a children’s doctor with many years’ experience at London's top teaching hospitals. She treats the full range of paediatric conditions and specialises in paediatric allergy problems and urti­caria/hives/nettle rash.

She always ensures that she is conversant with the latest general paediatric and neonatal practice and sees infants, children and young people of all ages for common problems and routine health needs.

Dr Van der Poel (almost always known as Dr Lauri) has practised for the last decade at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, a world-leading paediatric allergy academic and research centre and the largest children's allergy service in the UK. Dr Lauri worked in all areas of allergy, including complex food allergy and prevention, allergic rhinitis, asthma, atopic ec­zema and gastroenterology covering or practising alongside Professor Gideon Lack’s team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. She also worked in drug and venom allergy clinics under Dr Sophie Farooque at St Mary’s Hospital.

She graduated as a doctor from the University of Cape Town South Africa, with distinction finishing among the top graduates of her year and winner of the psychiatry medal. She then trained in paediatrics, paediatric allergy, infectious disease and immunology at some of London’s leading teaching hospitals including St Marys Hospital Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital and more.

Having completed an MSc in Allergy at Imperial University in 2014, she has been invited back many times as a lecturer. She has been active as a tutor, mentor and examiner for undergraduate students and visiting clinical fellows in allergy, as well as a tutor for those undertaking their paediatric clinical examinations.  

Dr Lauri believes in optimising health and wellness through empowering patients and harness­ing tech platforms and innovations. She has worked on finding ways to bring the latest re­search and health data to her patients for more holistic health. She was a co-founder of the development of a cloud-based platform to personalise diet for several clinical settings, starting with food allergies. This led to an ongoing interest in digital innovation and opti­mising wellbeing starting in the child’s early years.

Dr Lauri has lectured both nationally and internationally on food allergy and chronic urticaria, as well as on mobile and digital health.

languages English

education + posts

• St Thomas' Hospital. Locum Consultant and Consultant Paediatric Allergy
• Evelina Hospital. Neonatal clinical fellow
• Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS trust. Locum Consultant Paediatric Allergist 
• University College London NHS Trust. Locum Consultant Paediatrician and Acting Lead for Education
• Harvard Online. Certificate in Digital Health
• Imperial College London. MSc in Allergy
• University of Cape Town. MBChB

memberships

• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 
• European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

fees

• Initial Consultation 30 minutes £150
• Subsequent Consultation 30 minutes £150
• Consultation and skin prick test for allergies 45 minutes £250

gender Female