Dr Helen Spoudeas

 Professional experience

• More than 35 years of experience
• Consultant in endocrine service to survivors of childhood cancer, especially brain tumours, at the London Centre of Paediatric Endocrinology between Great Ormond Street and University College Hospitals
• Part of the general endocrine services, University College London Hospitals (UCLH) (present)
• Part of the general endocrine services, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) (present)
• Visiting paediatric endocrinology appointments, Watford General Hospital (1998 - 2003)
• Visiting paediatric endocrinology appointments, Barnet Hospital, London (1997 - 2003)
• Senior Registrar Paediatric Endocrinology (UCLH & GOSH) (1993 - 1999)
• Visiting paediatric endocrinology appointments, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey (1988 - 1998)
• Qualified from Barts Hospital, London (1981)

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 Sub-specialties

• Long-term-follow-up (LTFU): Late effects of Cancer
• Children and young people's endocrinology
• Anorexia
• Failure to thrive
• Delayed puberty
• Disorders of puberty and development
• Short stature
• Tall stature 
• Endocrine Oncology 
• Brain disorders

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 Teaching posts

• Honorary senior lecturer in Paediatric Endocrinology at University College London and the Institute of Child Heath, where her main NHS practice continues (1999 - present)
• She has provided expert advice to the NICE guidance on child and adolescent cancer (2005) and in 2012 to the national specialist commissioning (NCG) paediatric neurosurgery ‘safe and sustainable’ initiatives for service improvement in children with complex brain tumours.
• Accredited educational supervisor of postgraduate paediatric trainees with 10 years experience mentoring and leading paediatric training programmes at the London Deanery and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH ) and currently supervising MsC and PhD students.
• Honorary Lecturer in Paediatric Endocrinology in University College London Hospital (UCLH) (1988 - 1993)

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 Education

• Paediatric specialisation (1985)
• Attained her postgraduate doctorate (MD) (1995)
• Member of the multidisciplinary working party on fertility preservation before childhood cancer therapy (2003)
• MBBS (London) (1981)
• ECFMG and VQE (1981)
• DRCOG (1983)
• MRCP (London) (1985)
• MD (London) (1995)
• MRCPCH (1996)
• CCST (Paediatrics and Endocrinology) (1996)
• FRCPCH (1999)
• FRCP (2000)

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 Publications and conferences

• Hoong-Wei Gan, Kim Phipps, Kristian Aquilina, Mark Nicholas Gaze, Richard Hayward, Helen Alexandra Spoudeas. Neuroendocrine morbidity after paediatric optic gliomas: a longitudinal analysis of 166 children over 30 years. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2015)
• Spoudeas HA. The evolution of growth hormone neurosecretory disturbance during high dose cranial irradiation and chemotherapy for childhood brain tumours. MD thesis, University of London (1995)
• Spoudeas HA. Paediatric Endocrine Tumours. A Multidisciplinary Consensus Statement of Best Practice from a Working Group convened under the auspices of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED and the United Kingdom Children’s Cancer Study Group (UKCCSG) (October, 2005)
• Author and editor of the joint BSPED-CCLG commissioned guidance on paediatric endocrine tumours (2005)
• She has published over 40 articles and chapterson the neuroendocrine effects of childhood brain tumours and related aspects of quality of survival and continues to be active in collaborative clinical research locally and internationally in this area.
• She is a recognised international speaker in her specialist field, invited to give over 10 lectures annually to a wide variety of interdisciplinary professionals.

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 Professional membership

• Member of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) (1990 - present)
• Member of the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) (1999 - present)
• Member of the European Children’s NeuroOncology Society (SIOP-E)
• Member of the "brain tumour" and "quality of survival" committees (2000 - present)
• Executive member of the British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (BSPED) (2000)
• Nominated endocrine society (paediatric and adult) stakeholder and endocrine expert to N.I.C.E. guidelines on child and adolescent cancer (2003 - 2005)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) (1999 - present)
• Fellow of the Child Health (FRCPCH) (1999 - present)
• Deputy Regional Adviser and Member of Specialty Training Committee North Central Thames (RCPCH) (2003 - present)

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