General clinical dermatology, pediatric dermatology, allergology, anaphylaxis, mast cell diseases.

Research focus: anaphylaxis, drug hypersensitivity, mast cell disease, mast cells, allergology.

Prof. Dr. med. Knut Brockow received his medical education at the Rhine Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn. Then passed the American State Exam (ECFMG, Part 1 and 2)

Doctoral studies at the Children’s Clinic of the Rhine Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn on the topic “Behavior of IgE concentration in the serum of healthy adults without atopy.” Method: ImmunoCAP system.” Assistant physician at the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) at the Eppendorf Dermatology Clinic. Researcher, Clinic and Polyclinic for Dermatology and Allergology am Biederstein, Technical University of Munich.

Postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Allergic Diseases (Leiter: Dr. Dean Metcalfe), NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA als Stipendiat des John E. Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, USA. Specialist in the field of dermatology and venereology, as well as allergology and habilitation on “mast cells, mediators and mutations in mastocytosis” at the Clinic and Clinic for Dermatology and Allergology am Biederstein. Professorial work in the clinic and polyclinic of dermatology and allergology am Biederstein and appointment to the position of senior physician in the general outpatient clinic, head of the department of andrology, consultation on the problems of infant nutrition and mastocytosis.

1999 Hans-Karrer Prize in Pediatric Dermatology.

President of the Anaphylaxis Education and Training eV (AGATE) Working Group

Leader of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) task force on hypersensitivity to radiocontrast media.

Member of the editorial board of medical journals: Allergo Journal, Allergology, Asthma Allergy Immunology, Clinical Experimental Allergy.

Reviewer of medical publications: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Allergy, Allergy Asthma Clinical Immunology, Allergologie, Allergo Journal, ACI International, Anästhesiologie & Intensivmedizin, Annals of Allergy, Archives of Dermatology, British Journal of Dermatology, Clinical Translational Allergy, Cinical Experimental Allergy , Clinical Experimental Immunology, Contact Allergy, Deutsches Ärzteblatt, European Journal of Pediatrics, European Radiology, International Archives of Allergy, Journal of Investigative Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Journal of the Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft, Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.