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Dr Matt Edwards
MBChB FRCEM MRCS

Dr Matt Edwards
MBChB FRCEM MRCS
Clinical lead for PED at KCH. Lead for Major trauma research and education at KCH MTC and SELKAM trauma network. Chair of the Hospital Transfusion Committee, KCH. Emeritus prehospital doctor Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex. Royal College of Emergency Medicine best practice committee
Dr Ella Aidoo
Paediatric Palliative Medicine Consultant

Dr Ella Aidoo
Paediatric Palliative Medicine Consultant
I have been working in children's palliative care for over 10 years, training at Great Ormond Street Hospital prior to moving to the Evelina as a consultant. My interest is in GI dystonia, congenital cardiac conditions and education. I'm currently developing a simulation programme to run alongside our Paediatric Palliative Care annual study day.
Prof Anil Dhawan
Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist

Prof Anil Dhawan
Consultant Paediatric HepatologistMD FRCPCH Professor Dhawan graduated in medicine in 1986 and after completing his residency in Paediatrics in India, joined King’s College Hospital, London as trainee in Paediatric Hepatology in 1992. In March 1995, he was appointed visiting professor and consultant in paediatric gastroenterology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, and USA. He relocated to King’s College Hospital, London in August 1996 as consultant Paediatric Hepatologist. He was appointed Professor of Paediatric Hepatology at Kings College London in 2005. He has published over 400 research papers and edited 4 books in paediatric hepatology and human hepatocyte transplantation. Prof Dhawan is proud of developing basic science laboratories for research in liver disease (Mowat Labs) and Slorach International learning hub. The facilities are dedicated to his mentor late Prof Alex Mowat, who believed in delivering innovative high quality care underpinned by strong basic science and share the knowledge worldwide.
Dr Bhanu Williams
Consultant Paediatrician and South West Sector Dean

Dr Bhanu Williams
Consultant Paediatrician and South West Sector DeanBhanu is a consultant in paediatric infectious diseases at Northwick Park Hospital and is the Associate Medical Director for Education, Research and Innovation for London North West Healthcare NHS Trust. She is seconded for some of her time to NHSE as the South West London System Dean. She has is a Trustee and Assistant Registrar of RCPCH and has previously served as Global Officer.
Dr Ritika Kapoor
Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist

Dr Ritika Kapoor
Consultant Paediatric EndocrinologistDr. Kapoor obtained her primary medical degree from University of Mumbai in 1997. Following her MRCPCH in 2001, she received specialist Paediatric training at the East of England Deanery and obtained dual CCT in Paediatrics and Diabetes and Endocrinology in 2010. She trained in Paediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. She obtained a PhD from University College London on Genetics of Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI) in 2010 and since then has been a Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She currently leads the Paediatric Endocrine service at KCH and the CHI service in South London. She also runs a specialist joint Endocrinology- Gynaecology clinic at KCH. Additionally, Dr Kapoor holds an Adjunct Reader position at King’s College London. Her research interest focuses on Congenital Hyperinsulinism, Growth Hormone therapy and Neuroendocrinology. She was recently awarded the MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnership (CARP) award to investigate the role of oxytocin in neurobehavioural problems in children with disorders of the hypothalamo-pituitary axis.
Dr Subarna Chakravorty
Consultant Paediatric Haematologist

Dr Subarna Chakravorty
Consultant Paediatric HaematologistSubarna is a Paediatric Haematologist with an interest in non-malignant blood disorders of childhood, including sickle cell and thalassaemia; rare anaemia and bone marrow failure syndromes. Since 2021, she has been involved in bone marrow transplantation in adults with sickle cell disease at King’s College Hospital. Subarna is currently serving as the National Specialty Adviser and chair of the Clinical Reference Group for Haemoglobinopathy in NHS England. She is also the clinical lead for the Sickle Cell Centre of Excellence project in King’s Health Partner’s Haematology. She led the UK Haemoglobinopathy Peer Reviews from 2018-2020. Subarna is an elected trustee of the British Society for Haematology and the UK Forum on Haemoglobin Disorders. Subarna is interested in clinical and molecular research in sickle cell disease and regularly publishes on these topics.
Dr Simon Chapman
Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist

Dr Simon Chapman
Consultant Paediatric EndocrinologistSimon is a general paediatrician who started at King’s as a consultant in 2010. He has worked in children’s general paediatrics, endocrinology and diabetes all that time and has seen the huge changes that have happened in diabetes management, from fluids in DKA, through to carb counting, diabetes technology and soon immunomodulators. He will offer a personal reflection on some of the dilemmas in diabetes management for the generalist.
Prof Akash Deep
Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care

Prof Akash Deep
Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care
Akash Deep is the Director of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at King's College Hospital, London and Professor of Paediatric critical care at King’s College London. Prof. Deep is the Staff Governor at King’s College Hospital, London. Prof Deep is the Chair of Scientific Affairs for the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Society (ESPNIC). He chairs the Liver Failure Working Group for ESPNIC. He is the Chair for the Liver Failure Working group for PALISI (Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators) network. He has been the Founding Chair for the Critical Care Nephrology Section of ESPNIC. Prof Deep is the Chair for the Science and Education Committee of Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS) of UK. He is the advisor to the UK sepsis Trust for paediatric sepsis and is the author of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for septic shock in children. Prof Deep is the Chief author of the Sepsis Toolkit for management of sepsis in children released by the UK Sepsis Trust at the House of Commons. Prof Deep has organised many national and international congresses on extracorporeal support CRRT and hosted the First International Conference of Critical Care Nephrology in London in 2023. He also was the co-Chairman for the 8th International Conference on CRRT in London and the 9th International Conference on CRRT in Orlando, USA. He was the Organising Chairman for 2019 U.K’s National Paediatric Intensive Care congress in collaboration with US’s Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS) Prof is the Chief Editor for the official ESPNIC textbook published by Springer on ‘’Critical Care Nephrology and Renal Replacement therapy in Children’’. He is an invited national and international speaker in major Paediatric and Paediatric Intensive Care conferences. Special interests include various aspects of management of acute liver failure especially extracorporeal support in acute liver failure in children, acute kidney injury in neonates and children, Continuous renal replacement therapy, sepsis education/awareness and haemodynamics in septic shock.
Dr Emilia Duarte Williamson
Consultant Dermatologist

Dr Emilia Duarte Williamson
Consultant Dermatologist
Consultant Dermatologist working in King’s College London from April 2019, graduated from Medical school in Bogota-Colombia in 1987 and trained in Dermatology from 1996 to 1999. Dr Duarte moved to England in October 2003 and after completing the exams and registration processes, she was recognized by the GMC and RCP London in 2005, she worked as a locum Consultant in different hospitals and was appointed as a Substantive Consultant Dermatologist in Frimley Park Hospital in 2008 where she worked for 3 years, then worked in East Kent Hospitals from May 2011, before moving to King’s College Hospital in April 2019. Dr Duarte has been running Paediatric Dermatology clinics weekly since January 2006. She started a MDT meeting with paediatric allergists that runs once monthly to be able to treat children on Biologics and Jaks for inflammatory skin conditions. Dr Duarte is a general dermatologist with special interests on Medical dermatology, Inflammatory skin disease and Paediatric Dermatology.
Prof Atul Gupta
Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

Prof Atul Gupta
Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
Professor Atul Gupta is the Head of the Children's Respiratory Service at King's College Hospital and a senior Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician. He is also a Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at King's College London. He is also the Research and Innovation Lead at Variety Children’s Hospital, King’s College Hospital, London. Professor Gupta is the Clinical Lead for the South-East London Asthma Network and serves on the Respiratory Clinical Specialty Advisory Committee (CSAC) at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). He is the Audit and Quality Lead for the British Paediatric Respiratory Society (BPRS) and the Director of the Paediatric Respiratory Academy. Professor Atul Gupta's research is dedicated to children with complex and life-limiting respiratory disorders. He has focused on clinical research involving novel treatments and prevention strategies for severe asthma and lung infections. Additionally, he collaborates in basic science research to prevent asthma and to investigate the mechanisms underlying steroid-resistant asthma and the role of vitamin D. With over 200 peer-reviewed papers (h-index 42) published in prestigious journals like The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, Professor Gupta has significantly contributed to medical literature. He has also authored chapters in paediatric respiratory textbooks and published reviews covering all aspects of paediatric respiratory medicine. Professor Atul Gupta has collaborated on 18 clinical trials. He has taken significant leadership roles, serving as the Chief Investigator for six trials, the Principal Investigator for 15 trials, and the sub-principal Investigator for eight trials. His contributions have been recognised with numerous national and international awards, including the Lorber Prize from the RCPCH, the James Fellowship from the British Medical Association, the VASR Memorial Gold Medal, the S.S. Manchanda Research Gold Medal, and the Dr. Somu Oration Award for his contributions to paediatric respiratory medicine.
Dr Stephanie Lamb
General Practitioner and Founder of the Well Centre

Dr Stephanie Lamb
General Practitioner and Founder of the Well CentreGeneral Practitioner, Herne Hill Group Practice. Founder and Clinical Director, The Well Centre. GP Lead, CHILDS Transformation Programme. Chair RCGP Adolescent Health Group. Stephanie is a GP partner in a group practice covering a diverse inner city population of 15,500 in Lambeth, South London and founder and Clinical Director of the Well Centre, a young person’s integrated health hub with Primary Care, Health and Wellbeing Link workers and CAMHS. She has a special interest in developing accessible, young people friendly services in Primary Care and developing targeted services to more vulnerable groups of young people. She has been GP lead of the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership, (now CHILDS) since 2013. She is Chair of the RCGP Adolescent Health Group.
Dr Benjamin Baig
Consultant Paediatric Psychiatrist

Dr Benjamin Baig
Consultant Paediatric PsychiatristDr. Benjamin Baig is a Consultant Liaison Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, Kings College London. He leads the National and Specialist Paediatric Liaison service which specialises in Functional Neurological Disorders and other neuropsychiatric conditions.
Dr Saira Haque
Consultant Paediatric Radiologist

Dr Saira Haque
Consultant Paediatric Radiologist
Dr Rob Elias
Consultant Kidney Doctor and Associate Medical Director

Dr Rob Elias
Consultant Kidney Doctor and Associate Medical DirectorRob is a Consultant Kidney Doctor and Associate Medical Director at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He set up and co-chairs the trust’s Clinical Ethics Advisory Group. That work includes providing support for teams making difficult clinical decisions in complex environments, particularly where there is moral distress amongst staff and/or disagreement between clinical teams and patients, families or carers. He studied philosophy at Cambridge before turning to medicine. His MD research was a social science study looking at how decisions about dialysis are made. He remains interested in what it is to do clinical ethics and how our views on what counts as ‘ethics’ are shaped.
Dr Simon Broughton
Consultant Paediatrician

Dr Simon Broughton
Consultant PaediatricianSimon is a General Paediatrician, starting working at Kings as a consultant in 2007. He has a PhD in infant respiratory physiology and the impact of RSV on prematurely born infants. He has had a diverse career to date with multiple different roles, Including: Paediatric HDU consultant 2008 to 2015, Training Programme Director London 2008 to 2017, Kings College Hospital Assistant Director of Medical Education 2010 to 2015, MSc Advanced Paediatrics Course Director KCL 2009-2015, RCPCH Officer for recruitment 2017 to 2025, Kings College Hospital Clinical Director 2018 to 2022. He loves hiking and family time and travelling to Italy and practicing his very poor Italian and winding up Arsenal fans!
Dr Kushila Rupasinghe
Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist

Dr Kushila Rupasinghe
Consultant Paediatric GastroenterologistConsultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist at King's College Hospital, London. Trained at UCL Medical School, obtaining an MBBS qualification with an intercalated BSc in Medical Sciences and Psychology. Completed an MSc In Advanced Paediatrics at the UCL Institute of Child Health with distinction. Membership of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH). Member of the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and BSPGHAN. Sat on the College Special Advisory Committee (CSAC) for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (PGHAN). Held responsibility for U.K. PGHAN trainees' training and assessment. Also served as advisor for trainees. Sub-investigator for clinical trials in Paediatric Gastroenterology including novel biologic interventions in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Special interest in teaching, and former Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London with formal qualifications in teaching and education (GIC, MSc).
Dr Marietta Pal Magdics
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist

Dr Marietta Pal Magdics
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Dr Nicola Brathwaite
Consultant Paediatric Allergist

Dr Nicola Brathwaite
Consultant Paediatric AllergistMBChB, FCPaed(SA), FRCPCH Consultant Paediatric Allergist Dr Nicola Brathwaite is a Consultant Paediatric Allergist and Clinical Lead for Paediatric Allergy at Kings College Hospital, London, appointed in 2005. She completed her specialist training in Paediatrics and Paediatric Allergy in Cape Town, South Africa. Her interests include all aspects of paediatric allergy especially food allergy, the role of allergy in asthma, allergic rhinitis, drug allergies and allergen immunotherapy. She served as Honorary Secretary and Trustee of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) 2019-2022 and as member of the BSACI Standards of Care Committee contribute to developing national Allergy guidelines. She represented the Royal College of Paediatrics on the NICE technology appraisal of Pharmalgen for venom immunotherapy and worked on the RCPCH Allergy Care Pathways project for the Drug, Latex and Venom allergy pathways. Lead for the Respiratory and Allergy Module and International Child Health modules of the KCL Advanced Paediatrics MSc –developed and lead these modules 2012 to 2023.
Dr Rachael Mitchell
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr Rachael Mitchell
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency MedicineI am a Paediatric Emergency Medicine consultant in at King’s and am passionate at delivering high quality care to our local population at the front door. I am King’s born and bred, having completed a Darzi fellowship here as a trainee, working on acute care pathways for CYP and I am really proud to have continued this work as a consultant. I am also passionate about promoting the national agenda for Paediatric Emergency Medicine. I currently sit on the APEM committee as the Events Officer and have run APEM sessions at both RCPCH and RCEM conferences. I co-wrote Standards for Paediatric Assessment Units, the Trainee Charter, and ‘Delivering Really Good Paediatric Training. I have recently co-written the ‘Children with Complex Needs’ Chapter for The Emergency Care Standards. I am a passionate educator, both as the education lead in the PED, as well as the Undergraduate Child Lead for King’s College London. Outside of work, I can mainly be found running after my two small children, and am fuelled by coffee and wine, in any order!
Dr Trisha Radia
Consultant Paediatrician

Dr Trisha Radia
Consultant PaediatricianDr Trisha Radia is a consultant Paediatrician at King’s College Hospital. Dr Radia developed her interest in acute paediatrics with rotations through the intensive care units at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital and King’s College Hospital. Following completion of the RCPCH HDU special interest (SPIN) module she qualified as a General Paediatrician with a Special Interest in High Dependency Care (HDU), and was the Lead Consultant for the Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU) at Croydon University Hospital prior to moving to King's College Hospital. She now works in general paediatrics and on High Dependency, here at King’s. Dr Radia has an interest in medical education and in 2016 developed, with a PICU Consultant, the HDU SPIN teaching Network. This network provides peer support, mentoring and monthly hybrid teaching sessions to paediatric trainees across the UK. Dr Radia is also an active member of the London School of Paediatrics, and has recently completed a roles Training Programme Director for Simulation in South London and Return to Practice for the London School of Paediatrics. Since September 2024, Dr Radia has taken on the role of Clinical Director for Child Health care group at King’s, managing almost 150 beds and 1000 staff. She has an interest in transformation work and influencing a positive culture in the NHS.
Prof Ingrid Wolfe
Consultant in Paediatric Population Medicine

Prof Ingrid Wolfe
Consultant in Paediatric Population Medicine
Dr Ingrid Wolfe is a paediatrician and healthcare public health physician and scientist conducting research about child health services, systems, and policy, with a focus on applied research. Key themes include health systems strengthening, models of care to improve outcomes and equity of care, and population health approaches to prevention and early intervention within healthcare. Recent research includes leading a large scale cluster randomised trial of integrated care (the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership (CYPHP) and cluster RCT), a programme of work developing and testing models of care to improve care coordination and outcomes for children with complex needs and disabilities (NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, South London), leading a multi-centre study investigating and designing a supportive coordinated model of care for children experiencing adversity (NIHR Policy Research Programme, ORACLE, OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences).
Ingrid is currently Director of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London, leading a large programme of research to improve health and care systems, within a national network of ARCs. She is leading an NIHR i4i randomised control trial on technology to improve outcomes for children with asthma, TEAM Care (Technology Enhanced integrAted asthMa care).
In her clinical role, Ingrid is Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Population Medicine) at Guy’s & St Thomas’ and is Consultant in Paediatric Population Health at Evelina London Children’s Health. Ingrid’s clinical responsibilities include improving early intervention and prevention within healthcare towards enhancing equity of access to care and improving the health of paediatric patients and populations.
Ingrid is Director of King’s Health Partners Women and Children’s Health; and Co-Chair of the British Association for Child and Adolescent Health (BACAPH). She is a Member of the Professional Advisory Group for the National Child Mortality Database Programme, the Health Promotion Committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Expert Advisory Group of the European University Hospitals Alliance, and on the Steering Group on Maternal Inequalities, NHS England.
Ingrid is qualified in paediatrics and public health, which enables her to be a children’s doctor in a very broad sense of the term. She has on-the-ground insight from clinical practice, and a population perspective from public health. These two aspects come together in her academic work, which focuses on children’s health services, systems and policy in the UK and European countries, and in the NHS where she is leading work to improve children’s health care and health systems.
Ingrid’s goal is to improve UK child health through strengthening and applying science in children’s health services, systems, and policy, so she publishes and speaks widely on these subjects. She was awarded an OBE for services to children’s health in 2016.
Dr Rachel Burman
FRCP MA

Dr Rachel Burman
FRCP MARachel qualified in medicine in 1988 and became a consultant in 1997. She is works with the palliative care team at King’s College Hospital NHS Trust and is an honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation. She worked in cardiology and neurology before entering a career in palliative care. This has left a commitment to the palliative care needs of patients with a non-malignant diagnosis. She has been principal investigator on a range of research projects looking at the palliative care needs and decision making processes of people with MS, Parkinson’s Disease and more recently. She has been a member of the RCP ethics Working Party publishing guidance on oral feeding difficulties and CAHN A Masters in Medical Law and Ethics and a Graduate Diploma in Law inform her interest in the HRA and MCA and their relevance to planning and complex decision making in health and social care provision. She is the former chair of the Association for Palliative Medicine, Ethics Committee and a member of the Fundraising Ethical Review Group for King’s College, London. She is co-chair of the Clinical Ethics Advisory Group at KCH
Dr Ved Arya
Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist

Dr Ved Arya
Consultant Paediatric EndocrinologistI completed MD Paediatrics from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and subsequently completed Specialist Training (CCT) in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes on the London-Wessex rotation (Great Ormond Street Hospital and Southampton General Hospital). I also completed a PhD in ‘Understanding genetic mechanisms of congenital hyperinsulinism’ from University College London and worked as a clinical research fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital during my PhD. I joined as a Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in March 2017, initially at Evelina London Children Hospital and subsequently at King’s College Hospital (July 2017). I am passionate about research and have more than 40 publications in peer reviewed journals including publications in New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, European Journal of Endocrinology etc. I am a regular reviewer for manuscripts submitted to Journal of Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism and European Journal of Paediatrics.
Mr Pankaj Mishra
Consultant Paediatric Urologist

Mr Pankaj Mishra
Consultant Paediatric Urologist
Mr TJ Lasoye
Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Director of Medical Education

Mr TJ Lasoye
Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Director of Medical Education
Ms Erica Makin
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon

Ms Erica Makin
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon
Ms Difei Wang
Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon

Ms Difei Wang
Consultant Paediatric NeurosurgeonMs Difei Wang studied medicine at University of Cambridge during which time she complete a PhD in clinical neuroscience and spinal injury as part of the MB PhD programme. She completed her neurosurgery training in the Wessex Deanery and Southampton General Hospital. She undertook post-CCT fellowships in functional and epilepsy surgery and paediatric neurosurgery at King’s College Hospital. She is currently a paediatric and adult consultant neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital. Her interests include paediatric and adult epilepsy surgery including Stereo-EEG, deep brain stimulation and the management of spasticity, neuro-endoscopy, hydrocephalus and paediatric brain and spinal tumours as well as treatment of degenerative spine.
Dr Tamara Roberts
Consultants in Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Shared Care

Dr Tamara Roberts
Consultants in Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Shared CareTamara qualified and worked as a general paediatrician at King's before moving into the Paediatric Oncology Shared Care team in October 2022. Tamara and Kate Quinan now job share the POSCU Lead role.
Dr Kate Quinan
Consultants in Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Shared Care

Dr Kate Quinan
Consultants in Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Shared Care
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