Dr Deborah Zeitlin

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Consultant general paediatrician, NHS and International and Private Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital (September 2018 - present)
• Named doctor for Safeguarding, Great Ormond Street Hospital (September 2020 - present)
• Consultant general paediatrician, 999 Medical and Diagnostic Centre, The Therapeutic Consultants (Present)

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 Sub-specialties

• Physical assessments (including those required for residential camps)
• Neonatology and new born physical examination
• Constipation and bowel disorders and abdominal pain
• Enuresis (including daytime bladder control and bed wetting)
• Skin conditions
• Atopic conditions (Hay fever, eczema and asthma)
• School concerns (behavioural, academic regression and socialisation)
• Complex Medical Conditions (Rare, difficult to treat, chronic or multiple conditions)
• Congenital conditions (those a child is born with)
• Cleft palate and Lip (support in addition to national services)

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 Positions in public associations

• Committee member, European Paediatric Advanced Life Support

 Teaching posts

• EPALS Instructor Faculty, GOSH (2018 - present)
• Restart a Heart
• Return to Work: ART Course (Nov 2022)

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 Education

• MB ChB, University of Birmingham (2001)

 Publications and conferences

• Incidence of Severe Critical Events in Paediatric Anaesthesia (APRICOT): A prospective multicenter observational study in 261 hospitals in Europe. Study Contributor. Lancet Respir Med 2017 5:412-25.
• European Paediatric Life Support, Fourth Edition. Resuscitation Council, 2017. Content Contributor / Author.
• Paediatric Immediate Life Support, Third Edition. Resuscitation Council, 2016. Content Contributor / Author.
• Zeitlin, D. Pantanowitz, L. 2009. Chapter 17: Kaposi Sarcoma in the Pediatric Population. In Kaposi Sarcoma: A Model of Oncogenesis. Published by Research Signpost. ISBN: 978-81-308-0380-7.
• Zeitlin, D. Ashman, N. Mallinder, S. Fan, SL-S 2007. Ceftazidime vs Gentamicin in non-Gram positive Peritoneal Dialysis-related Peritonitis: An Observational Study. Renal Association Autumn Meeting.

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 Prizes and awards

• Mentor of the Year, JUMP (Jewish Undergraduate Mentoring Programme, ORT) (2014)
• Trainee of the Year Nomination, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2014)
• Mentor of the Year, JUMP (2012)
• Winnicott NICU Prize for Best Audit – Congenital Group B Streptococcus Infection Prevention Tactics. St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College, London (2008)
• Special Placement: Zeitlin, D. Rasmussen’s Encephalitis: ‘The Boy with half a brain’. Placed in Birmingham University Medical School Library by Professor I Brockington. The Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, Prof. E Taylor (2000)
• Pathology Prize - The process of neurological degeneration in Parkinson’s Disease. Birmingham University Medical School (1998)
• Undergraduate Honours: Psychiatry; Neurology SSM (Bridging the Gap: The problems and practicalities of restoring motor function after spinal cord injury) (1995 - 2001)

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 Professional membership

• Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine
• Medical Defence Union (MDU)