Please see Jack Pepys, for a personal reccollection by his son, Mark Pepys.
Professor of Allergy and Immunology. Father of many of the next generation of doctors working in occupational asthma including Freddie Hargreaves (avian alveolitis); set up occupational and allergy service at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Moira Chan-Yeung (Mites), set up occupational lung disease service in Vancouver, Canada, the Professor of Medicine, Hong Kong Dan McCarthy (Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis), then in USA studied grain workers David Hendrick (Bakers and ampicillin); set up occupational lung disease service in Newcastle on Tyne UK; challenges, welders Tony Pickering (occupational challenges, platinum, antibiotics and isocyanates). Set up occupational lung disease service in Manchester, UK. Professor of Occupational respiratory medicine. Indoor air, cotton. Britta Stenius-Aarniala; (atopy), Respiratory consultant Helsinki, Finland; asthma and pregnancy; fire eaters ABX Breslin; (Intal and beclomethasone in specific challenges). Australia insecticides Bruce Hutchcroft; (hairdressers), then Sheffield, UK chest physician; diazonium salt asthma Andre Siracusa later with Moira Chan-Yeung; grain, aluminium and epidemiology. then Perugia, Italy Kevin Carroll; (rat alveolitis and isocyanates), then Manchester UK; chest physician Tony Newman Taylor (Isocyanates and rats), Professor of Occupational respiratory Medicine and Knight. Set up occupational lung disease service at the Royal Brompton; occupational epidemiology, bakers, lab animals, anhydrides Ian Fawcett; (colophony and epoxy resins), then Yeovil, UK chest physician David Bryant (non-specific reactivity amd Intal); then Sydney, Australia Jean-Luc Malo (Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis), Professor at Sacre Coeur. Set up occupational asthma service in Montreal, Canada; occupational challenges, epidemiology; snow crabs, bakers, welders, painters, health care) Ian O'Brien; (isocyanates), then Chest physician St Thomas and Medway, UK Mark Harries; (bronchial reactivity), Northwick Park, UK; sports medicine S.Y.So Hong Kong Chest physician; colophony asthma in poultry vender Wah Kit Lam (formaldehyde) then Hong Kong Chest Physician; colophony asthma in poultry vender Mike Dally (platinum), then Australia Sherwood Burge (colophony and peak flows), Professor of Occupational Respiratory Medicine, Set up occupational lung disease service in Birmingham, UK. Indoor Air, Metals, Metal-working fluid and peak flows There were also those on the laboratory side who need to write their own story; Joan Longbotham, Jennie Faux, Ben Jacoby, Robert Murdoch, Oliver Cromwell, Geraldine Edge
Jack is involved with the following papers on occupational asthma.
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O'Brien IM, Bull J, Creamer B, Sepulveda R, Harries MG, Burge PS, Pepys J,
Asthma and extrinsic allergic alveolitis due to Merulius lacrymans,
Clin Allergy,
1978;8:535-542,
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Hendrick DJ, Davies RJ, Pepys J,
Bakers Asthma,
Clin Allergy,
1976;6:241-250,
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