Jane Peake graduated from the University of Queensland. She commenced general paediatric training at the Royal Children’s Hospital and obtained her FRACP in 1994. She went overseas to obtain training and get experience in Immunology and allergy and had Senior Registrar Posts at the Royal Victorian Infirmary in Newcastle Upon Tyne and St George’s Hospital, London. Whilst in London she completed a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the University of London and then went to France for 3 years to do research in primary immunodeficiency at Hopital Necker Enfants Malades in Paris, France.

To complete her postgraduate training and to get back into clinical practice she took a fellow position in immunology and allergy at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. After returning to Australia she commenced private practice in paediatric immunology and allergy at the Wesley Hospital and Royal Children’s Hospital. She is also a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland. She is a visiting consultant to Royal Children’s and Mater Children’s Hospitals.

Special interests include food allergy, anaphylaxis, primary immune deficiency, allergic rhinitis and paediatric autoimmune disease. She has numerous publications in these areas. She be on a variety of state and national committees for anaphylaxis, immunoglobulin usage, primary immunodeficiency, and paediatric immunology and allergy and is the Queensland representative for the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy.