John Weiner is a medical consultant in the diagnosis and treatment of allergic diseases and asthma.
After completing his medical degree at the University of Melbourne, John obtained specialist qualifications in internal medicine (clinical immunology and allergy) and pathology (anatomical pathology). He spent 18 months at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. He was the Director of Pathology at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, and was on the Steering Group that developed the National Asthma Strategy in Australia. He has been a visiting allergist at the Alfred Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Monash University, and was a visiting consultant to the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap Central Australia (Australia/US) and later to Alice Springs Hospital in Central Australia. He is a member of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy and also of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand.
John has clinics in Melbourne, and in Rosebud on the beautiful Mornington Peninsula 60 kms south-east of Melbourne. He has over 60 publications including studies on asthma, ant venoms, drug allergies, food allergy, eye diseases, allergy vaccines and the genetics of allergy.
Together with colleagues Prof Michael Abramson and Dr Robert Puy, John has published two systematic reviews (statistical interpretations of published data). (1) Injection allergen immunotherapy for asthma, Cochrane Collaboration, 2010 (2) Intranasal corticosteroids in allergic rhinitis BMJ, 1999.
The dreaded imported fire ant has arrived in Australia, and John co-authored an editorial on this topic in the Medical Journal of Australia. John has also co-authored an editorial in the same journal on hidden food allergens.
The Medical Journal of Australia published a series of articles on allergy in 2006 and a monograph in 2007 and John is one of the three Editors.
In his spare time, John grows grapes and makes wine (Pinot Noir, Tempranillo, Saperavi and Riesling). He has a Graduate Certificate in Wine Technology and Viticulture from the University of Melbourne. Readers may be interested in the laws on declaring allergens on wine labels in Australia.
