Dr. Brian Vickery is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Vickery completed his undergraduate work at the University of Georgia and then obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed pediatric residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell in New York City, and was selected as a chief resident. He then completed his fellowship training in allergy & clinical immunology at Yale University School of Medicine and was recruited to the faculty at Duke by Dr. Wesley Burks, where he worked for four years before moving to UNC with Dr. Burks in 2012.

Dr. Vickery is an NIH-funded researcher, whose work focuses on understanding the biology of food allergy and developing novel therapies. He has published over 30 papers in leading journals, presented his work at national and international meetings, and won several junior faculty research awards. He serves as a peer reviewer for several leading Allergy & Immunology journals; is an invited member of the workgroup currently revising the Practice Parameter for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy; and is active in the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, where he chairs a subcommittee on the use of oral and sublingual immunotherapy for food allergy. In addition, he sees children with a variety of allergic disorders at his clinic at the N.C. Children’s Hospital and has been recognized with several awards for clinical care.