e-Consultation with Paediatricians

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Dr Basheer Peer-Mohamed is a senior consultant paediatrician based at BMI The Saxon Clinic in Milton Keynes. He covers a wide range of medical problems in both children and babies. His areas of expertise are paediatric neurology, including headaches, haematological problems, paediatric respiratory medicine, child allergies, asthma and gut problems. Dr Peer-Mohamed received his paediatric training from several renowned children’s hospitals including Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital (Evelina Children’s Hospital) and The Royal London Hospital. After completing his specialist registrar training in paediatrics and neonatology, he was appointed as a substantive consultant paediatrician at Milton Keynes University Hospital in 2011. In addition to his consultancy work, he is heavily involved in the medical teaching of paediatric doctors and nurses. He lectures medical students at the University of Buckingham School of Medicine and is an examiner for the MRCPCH Clinical Examination, which assesses paediatric trainees. He has also delivered many lectures at educational events for GPs and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. As well as publishing various scientific papers in peer-reviewed medical journals, Dr Peer-Mohamed has also presented at many international conferences such as the European Paediatric Neurology Society Conference, International Headache Society conference and European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases conference. He has also been awarded membership of the International Headache Society for best presentation.

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Dr Kalu Ogbureke is a consultant paediatrician with specialist interests in neonatal and respiratory medicine. He has over 20 years of medical experience in many aspects of paediatric care, including respiratory conditions; asthma in children; children's food allergies; feeding newborns and childhood vaccines and immunisation. He graduated from the University of Nigeria in 1987 before moving to London to study paediatrics at King's College Hospital London and at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Bristol. Dr Ogbureke works in the NHS as well as the private sector. He attends private patients at 84 Harley Street, Chiswick Medical Centre and the Parkside Suite at the Frimley Park Hospital. As well as a clinician, Dr Ogbureke has an esteemed reputation as a researcher, manager and teacher. He was the Chief Medical Director of ‎Delta State University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria and was the local coordinator at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for the “EPICURE 2” study. This UK and Ireland wide study looked at the outcomes of babies born before 27 weeks. Furthermore, he has been writing medico-legal reports for 10 years for legal cases regarding child protection and perinatal care.

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Dr David Shortland is a highly-experienced consultant paediatrician based in Bournemouth who treats children with all types of medical problems. His areas of expertise lie in all aspects of general paediatric care including respiratory problems, urinary abnormalities, gastro-oesophageal reflux, headaches and abdominal pain. Dr Shortland has over 30 years' of experience as a consultant diagnosing and treating children. He currently practises privately at Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital. Alongside his NHS duties, he has also had significant national roles, developing policies and setting important standards for paediatric services across the UK. After training in Bristol, Great Ormond Street, Leicester and Nottingham hospitals, he became accredited in general paediatrics and neonatology. He was the neonatal clinical lead for 10 years and a clinical director for 15 years at Poole Hospital. In addition to his consultancy position, Dr Shortland has had senior roles in the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. These have included the National Workforce Officer, the Vice President for Health Policy and the Clinical Lead for the National Invited Review service. As a member of both the Neonatal Society and the Paediatric Society and as part of his NHS and research posts, he has published extensively in many paediatric and neonatal medical journals.

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Dr Margarita Burmester is an accomplished consultant paediatric specialist based in London. She practices in the NHS and also works privately from the Chiswick Medical Centre, the Portland Hospital and RB&HH Specialist Care Outpatients 77 Wimpole St offering paediatric care, child health surveillance and health check ups through the innovative UK Bright Futures programme. She is trained in paediatrics, child health education, health screening and surveillance, preventative care, paediatric cardiac intensive care and paediatric critical care. Dr Burmester completed her medical degree from St Thomas's Hospital medical school,  University of London in 1989. She has worked at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, Canada, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University, USA. She received her postgraduate certification in clinical education from Kings College University London in 2016, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (FHEA) and Member of the Academy of Medical Educators (MAcadMEd). Alongside her private practice, she is currently Director of paediatric intensive care at the Royal Brompton Hospital, where she treats private and NHS patients. Dr Burmester has been at the Brompton since 2002, with a two-year sabbatical as a consultant at Boston Children’s Hospital. In 2008, she founded the SPRinT (Simulated Interprofessional Team Training) programme at the Royal Brompton hospital to enhance patient care and interprofessional simulated team training. This award-winning, patient safety educational programme now trains over 100 staff each year. She is President of the paediatric Section at the Royal Society of Medicine and In 2018 she was appointed "Q" fellow by the Health Foundation UK, following recognition of her multiple quality improvement initiatives. Dr Burmester is also a senior lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London. Dr Burmester is passionate about preventing ill health, and is co founder and director of the UK Bright Futures programme, an extensive all-encompassing health surveillance and screening programme based on the American Academy of Pediatrics model. As paediatrician and mother of 3 teenagers she understands the importance of prioritising and maximising children's health so that they can look forward to their brightest future possible. She has published multiple articles, delivered numerous lectures and workshops, and is a co-recipient of a Wellcome Trust award .

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Dr Rajiv Goonetilleke is a general paediatrician with a special interest in paediatric endocrinology; the field of medicine regarding glands and hormone production in children. Dr Goonetilleke is qualified to assist in all general paediatric conditions including coughs, wheezes, hay fever, abdominal pain, urinary tract infections, asthma and constipation. He will attend to children of all ages, from birth up to age 18. His interests in endocrinology have lead him to have a wealth of knowledge in the conditions of children's thyroid disorders, delayed puberty, early puberty, weight disorders, diabetes and polycystic ovarian disease. He currently practices at Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital, Cambridge, and Nuffield Health Leicester Hospital, Leicester. Furthermore, he has two current NHS posts. One at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, where he is the clinical lead in for diabetes and paediatric endocrinology, and another at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, where he is an honorary visiting specialist. 

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Dr Bushra Al-Rubeyi is a highly experienced consultant paediatrician and the founder of the prestigious London Child Clinic. Dr Al-Rubeyi Adopts a holistic approach to the management of chronic and acute medical problems, including asthma, eczema, hayfever, constipation, headaches, lethargy, and growth and developmental problems. She sees children from birth to the age of 18, and her busy clinic is equipped with state of the art facilities for investigation and diagnosis on-site. Originally graduating from Ain Shams University, Dr Al-Rubeyi completed her medical training in Paediatrics at Great Ormond Street, the Hammersmith Imperial College and University College Hospital. By 1995 Dr Al-Rubeyi was a Consultant Paediatrician and Fellow of The Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health. She started the London Child Clinic in 2006, which is widely recognised as one of the foremost paediatric clinics in the UK. In addition to her clinical practice Dr Al-Rubeyi is published widely in leading paediatric journals and has provided teaching in a number of institutes.

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Dr Chinedu Nwokoro is a leading consultant general and respiratory paediatrician in Hatfield and Elstree. He treats all manner of general paediatric concerns with additional authority in diseases of the respiratory tract. Dr Nwokoro is dual GMC-certified in general and specialist respiratory paediatric medicine. His areas of interest include asthma and wheezing disorders, chronic cough, bronchitis, acid reflux disease, allergies and hay fever and sleep-disordered breathing. Educated to A-level at Haberdashers' Aske's School in Elstree, Dr Nwokoro graduated in medicine from Jesus College, Cambridge in 2000. After a year in adult medicine and two years in paediatrics and neonatology in Cambridgeshire he proceeded to London. He moved through cardiorespiratory paediatrics and transplantation at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), general and developmental paediatrics at Ealing Hospital, and paediatric and neonatal intensive care at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington. He undertook his higher specialist training in respiratory paediatrics at the Royal London, Norfolk and Norwich and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals before taking up a part-time locum consultant post in general and respiratory paediatrics during which he completed his doctoral research at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, leading to the higher degree of Doctor of Medicine.   His research interests include clinical trials, air pollution and lung health and biomarkers in preschool wheeze and asthma.  Since 2013 he has been clinical lead for paediatric asthma and chronic lung disease at The Royal London Children's Hospital in Whitechapel.

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Dr Martin Gray is a leading consultant pediatric intensivist based in London at Bright Futures , Chiswick Medical Center. He is trained and experienced in all aspects of pediatric critical care medicine and specializes in treating critically ill children with trauma , childhood cancer , infectious diseases , respiratory failure ,  endocrinology , gastroenterology and  neurological problems. He practices in the NHS where he provides specialist pediatric intensive care that looks after children with cancer, congenital heart disease and neurological and neurosurgical problems. Dr Gray trained in paediatric medicine and paediatric critical care in the UK and Australia and completed a three-year fellowship in paediatric critical care at Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto. His first senior position was as Assistant Professor at McMaster University Canada where he joined the paediatric critical care team. As a Paediatric Intensive Care Consultant at St George’s Hospital, he led on the development and expansion of the paediatric intensive care unit there working with the team to deliver excellent outcomes for children with cancer who require intensive care. Dr Gray has an interest in Clinical Informatics and a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. He was appointed St George's first Chief Clinical Information Officer in 2013 and saw the hospital become the second in the UK to reach HIMMS stage 6 for digital maturity. Dr Gray continues to work in paediatric critical care medicine working at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and The Royal Brompton Hospital.  Dr Gray is and advocate for preventative paediatric healthcare and is pioneering the introduction of the American Academy of Pediatrics Bright Futures child health surveillance programme in the United Kingdom. At Bright Futures, Dr Martin Gray works alongside Dr Margarita Burmester where they provide paediatric primary care, child health surveillance and preventative care.

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Dr Gautam Kulkarni is an expert consultant paediatrician who specialises in child allergies, neurology, constipation, headaches, abdominal pain and recurrent coughs. Dr Kulkarni is passionate about children's health and provides not only the most up-to-date medical care but a holistic approach to problems. Dr Kulkarni studied paediatrics at the University of Poona, India in 2000 before moving to the UK and obtaining his membership from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2003. He then completed his training by receiving his diploma in allergies in 2010. Whilst holding an innovation fellowship from the NHS Institute of Innovation and Improvement, Dr Kulkarni also holds a specialist adviser position in paediatrics for the Care Quality Commission. In addition, he works as a strategic adviser for a HealthTech App called Nurturey and is the lead for clinical audit at the Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford. He has a particular interest in healthcare innovation and ensuring patient safety and has recently helped in the development of Isabel Healthcare - a support system for physicians to reduce diagnostic error. Dr Kulkarni has a real passion for improving children's health, enhancing their outcomes and helping them to achieve their potential.

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Dr Olga Kapellou is a renowned Consultant Paediatrician and Neonatologist operating in the London area. Her areas of expertise include general paediatrics, newborn physical examinations, child constipation and diarrhoea, rashes in babies and coughing and breathing problems. She is also an expert in preterm and term neonatal brain injury as well as follow-up after complicated pregnancies. Dr Kapellou graduated from the National Capodistrian University of Athens in 1995. She then was awarded an MD by Imperial College London and went on to specialise in some of the UK’s most prestigious teaching hospitals, including Great Ormond Street, St Mary’s and Hammersmith. She has an active research interest in preterm and term brain injury, therapeutic hypothermia for perinatal asphyxia and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Her publications on the effects of prematurity on brain growth and development have been cited extensively. As well as being a skilled consultant, Dr Kapellou is a Neonatal Life Support instructor and Unicef trained breastfeeding specialist and uses the Griffiths Neurodevelopmental Scales to track infant development in outpatient clinics. She is a highly-trained and knowledgeable professional, who offers the best possible care using the most up-to-date techniques.

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Dr Pramod Nair is a highly sought after paediatrician based in Milton Keynes and Bedford. He is an experienced clinician with a wide range of experience in all areas of general paediatrics. He has a special interest in paediatric cardiology, syncope and PoTS. He also has wide ranging experience in paediatric haematology & oncology, developmental paediatrics, allergies, intensive care and  management of gastro intestinal problems, headaches, hemangiomas, growth related disorders, feeding problems, chronic fatigue syndrome etc. After completing his post graduation in Paediatrics from Mumbai University in India, he obtained higher specialist training from East Midlands deanery in Nottingham. He has over 20 years of experience in Paediatrics and is well liked by his patients and parents. He is the Clinical lead for children's services at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Clinical Lead for Paediatric Cardiology & Paediatric Resuscitation services at the same trust, Paediatric Lead at the BMI Saxon Clinic and holds honorary post at the Great Ormond Street Hospital. Dr Nair is well loved by his patients and he strives to provide the best and evidence based clinical care efficiently. His aim is to provide fast, efficient and family friendly services that ensures a faster diagnosis and care to his patients. He is well connected to other reputed sub specialists to whom he would refer if necessary.

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Dr Harsha Bilolikar is an exceptionally experienced consultant paediatrician who offers private paediatric services at the renowned clinics of The County Clinic and Nuffield Health Leicester Hospital. Dr Bilolikar has dedicated more than 25 years to diagnosing and treating conditions in newborns, children and young people up to 18 years old. Over the course of his career, he has gained leading knowledge and expertise in all aspects of general paediatrics and subspecialist skill in managing paediatric allergies, including milk allergy and nut and food allergy and anaphylaxis. He is also an expert in eczema, urticaria, asthma and hay fever (allergic rhinitis) - diagnosis treatment including immunotherapy. He is the local lead for asthma, allergy, and tuberculosis. He has many years of experience in managing congenital hypothyroidism. After qualifying as a paediatrician in 1987, Dr Bilolikar underwent further specialist training in paediatrics and neonatology in London teaching hospitals, where he conducted research into asthma. In 2001, he was appointed as a consultant paediatrician at Kettering General Hospital, where he established a paediatric asthma and allergy service. Dr Bilolikar is also committed to the teaching and training of future specialists. He has been an examiner for Royal College examinations in paediatrics for more than 10 years and an educational supervisor for doctors in training. Furthermore, he has been a neonatal life support instructor for over 8 years. He is also a passionate researcher and has participated in multicentric research trials in paediatrics while working as a consultant.

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Dr Santanu Maity is a leading general paediatrician based in London who currently sees patients at the Royal Free Hospital. Dr Maity specialises in acute paediatrics, food allergies, asthma, rhinitis, eczema and urticaria. He has been working at the Royal Free Hospital since 2007 and sees over 100 children a month. Dr Maity supervises the Children’s Ward at the NHS, he carries out ambulatory & ward reviews, and his primary responsibilities are to create the medium to long term care plans for inpatients and ambulatory patients. He assesses all cases on the ward referred by social services for child protection concerns. He works for out-patients at specialist clinics in paediatric allergy in a multidisciplinary setting, with dieticians and specialist nurses. Dr Maity oversees food challenges and helps patients start immunotherapy. Dr Maity is also the long day and night consultant in accident & emergency and has the primary responsibility for assessment and initial management of children presenting to acute service in A&E. Dr Maity developed an interest in paediatric allergy after his specialist registrar training. He is the lead for this service at the Royal Free Hospital. This development has been via training in clinics with an honorary consultant within a tertiary allergy centre at the Evelina Children’s Hospital. Dr Maity completed a post-graduate diploma in allergy. In 2008, Dr Maity and his department set up a new paediatric allergy service which now has been approved as a tertiary centre. Dr Maity graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Manchester University in 1990. He has contributed to numerous medical journals with research and quality improvement work in paediatrics and allergy.

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Dr Nick Cholidis has been a consultant paediatrician since 2015, mainly specialising in children with epilepsy, headaches, neurodisability and maintaining clinical excellence for all competencies within general Paediatrics. He is currently based in Rivers Hospital in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.  Dr Cholidis graduated from St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital Medical School in 1999 and subsequently completed his post-graduate training at various London hospitals including the Evelina Children's Hospital, The Royal London Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. As he is a keen educator, Dr Cholidis held a teaching position at the Royal College of Paediatrics as Tutor between 2015 and 2019. During this period, he oversaw the re-structure of paedatric training locally and helped in welcoming the new improvements, specifically in quality and reputation. He has a special interest in medical education and is the Training Programme Director for Paediatrics in the East of England Deanery where he is responsible for delivering the curriculum to regional paediatric trainees. He is in the process of completing his Master's degree in Medical Education at the university of Cambridge. Whilst balancing his time as a programme director and consultant paediatrician at the Rivers Hospital, Dr Cholidis also holds an NHS position at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex leading the service for paediatric neurology and epilepsy and is a professional member of the British Paediatric Neurology Association and the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS). For the last 5 years he holds weekly clinics for general neurology where he deals with children with nerve and muscle abnormalities, headaches, tremors etc, as well Epilepsy clinics for new referrals and children and young people with established diagnosis.

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