Stephen Holgate

Sir Stephen Townley Holgate, (born 2 May 1947) is a British physician who specializes in immunopharmacology, respiratory medicine and allergies, and asthma and air pollution, based at the University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, UK. Education Holgate was educated at The King's School in Macclesfield until 1965, when he joined Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London (now incorporated into Imperial College London) where he received a BSc and MB BS. After completing postgraduate medical training in London at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases and the Royal Brompton Hospital, he moved to Salisbury and Southampton where he completed his specialist higher medical training in general and respiratory medicine. While a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Southampton, he researched the link between asthma death and over-use of beta-adrenergic bronchodilator inhalers. In 1978, Holgate received a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of London.