Update on Paediatric Emergencies Course
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- This course is designed for Consultants, Registrars and Middle Grades working in General ED, Paediatrics and Paediatric ED, who see paediatric patients presenting as an emergency.
- Format: Short lectures followed by Q&A sessions
- APPROVED FOR CPD: RCPCH has approved this activity in accordance with the current RCPCH guidelines. Infomed will provide a certifcate with this statement and 12 study hours
Our expert faculty, consisting of experts from the Paediatric Emergency Department and other associated Paediatric specialties with years of experience in teaching and disseminating skills and practical knowledge to peers from leading hospitals
Course director
Dr Laura Hunter
Dr Laura Hunter is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Toxicology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. She completed Emergency Medicine Higher Specialist Training in Merseyside Deanery, prior to her move to London in 2010. Special areas of interest include recreational drug toxicity, Inclusion Health and the development of Routine Blood Borne Virus screening within the Emergency Department.
Faculty members
Dr Protima Deb
Dr Protima Deb is a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist working at The Royal London Hospital. Her early paediatric training was at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London, where she achieved Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics in 2006. She was appointed to the Higher Specialist Training Programme in Paediatric Gastroenterology in The London Deanery and completed her training in 2014.
Dr Deb is a "self-confessed research enthusiast". Her specialist area of interest is inflammatory bowel disease. Her work looking at the microbiome in childhood Crohn’s disease was the subject of her doctoral thesis which she was awarded from Queen Mary University of London in 2019. She continues her research work with an honorary contract at Queen Mary University, based at the Blizard institute, where she continues to explore the field of microbiome and inflammatory bowel disease.
Dr Maria Chalia
Neonatal Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London
Trained in East of England and London, has an MD from the University of Cambridge and completed a year of neurophysiology for the under ones
Maria specialises in neonatal EEG
Mr Joseph Curry
Mr Curry is the senior consultant in neonatal and paediatric surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
His main areas of interest are in gastrointestinal (bowel) surgery and treating children born with abnormalities of the abdominal wall, diaphragm and gastrointestinal tract.
He is currently the South England representative on the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons executive committee. He holds a post-graduate Certificate and Diploma in medical education from the University of London. He is a member of faculty of surgical trainers at the Edinburgh College of Surgeons.
He has published over one hundred peer-reviewed articles and 16 book chapters and presented over one hundred and ten times to national and international conferences. He regularly reviews articles for journals such as the Journal of Paediatric Surgery, Paediatric Surgery International and Prenatal Diagnosis and is the speciality editor for the annals of the royal college of surgeons.
Dr Ffion Davies
Dr Ffion Davies is an Emergency Physician sub-specialising in paediatric emergency consultant at the University Hospitals of Leicester in the UK
Her career has been dedicated to raising standards of care for children in emergency departments via education and working with governments. To that end, she has been involved with developing training programmes for doctors in Emergency Medicine and in Paediatrics, creating the eLearning website spottingthesickchild.com
Amongst her publications she authored a textbook Emergency Care of Minor Trauma in Children, now in its third edition. She is a contributor to learning tools across the popular EM3 platforms - website www.em3.org.uk
She was President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) 2022-2024 and continues to serve IFEM in an Immediate Past President role.
Dr Marina Easty
Consultant Paediatric Radiologist Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
Dr Saira Haque
Saira is a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, King's College Hospital, London. She has been a consultant at King’s since 2011 and her special interests include in Musculoskeletal and MR imaging.
Dr Michelle Jacobs
Michelle is an RCEM consultant with subspecialty accreditation in paediatric emergency medicine and works at Northwick Park hospital in Harrow, as the ED clinical lead for paediatric ED.
Her area of interest and focus for several years has been on the management of adolescents in the ED and beyond- delivery of developmentally appropriate healthcare for this often neglected age group and working towards improving the experience and the care which we provide to them. On this topic she has researched and published and spoken at many national meetings and events. She is also a member of the RCEM Paediatric Emergency Medicine professional advisory group and the RCPCH intercollegiate emergency standards committee to further this work.
Dr Andrew Jones
Dr Andrew Jones is a Consultant at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and at the Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS).
His professional interest include
• Paediatric critical care transport
• Medical education and clinical simulation
• Dr Jones is also unit training director for paediatric intensive care medicine at Gosh
Andrew is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and a Member of the Paediatric Intensive Care
Dr Alasdair Munro
Dr Alasdair Munro is a clinician in paediatric emergency medicine and a clinical research fellow specialising in paediatric infectious diseases, including early and late phase clinical trials of vaccines and antibiotics, at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility Southampton and University of Southampton, that is the National Institute for Health and Care Research
Since 2020 he has been leading the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health review of published evidence regarding COVID-19 in children, as well as working as senior fellow on a number of COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Oxford vaccine. Dr Munro sits on the NIHR Transmission of COVID-19 in Schools (ToCS) working group .
Dr Munro’s research interests include vaccinology and clinical trials, as well as the transmission of COVID-19 in children and the role of schools in wider community transmission.
Other research interests include antimicrobial stewardship and the advanced diagnostic methods for infections in children.
Dr Sally Old
Medicolegal Adviser, MDU Services Limited
Sally was a consultant in oncology before joining the MDU in 2006. She now has almost 15 years’ experience of advising MDU members from all specialties about medicolegal matters, these include complaints, inquests, crime and the GMC.
For Sally, consent and authority to treat, are often fundamental to the issues that arise, especially so where there is a disagreement as to the appropriate way forward between the various parties such as the patient, those caring for them (including the parents), and the medical team.
Dr Valeria Parlatini
Dr Valeria Parlatini is a clinical lecturer and child and adolescent psychiatrist at King's College London and South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust. Her research aims at the identification of predictors of mental health outcomes that can be used to personalise and improve clinical care. She received three international awards, including the Young Scientist Award at the World Congress on ADHD. Recently, she has been awarded the Academy of Medical Sciences Starter Grant to investigate the impact of the Covid pandemic on the mental health of children and young people with pre-existing mental health conditions.
Dr Caroline Ponmani
Caroline is an endocrinologist and the clinical lead of the Children's Emergency Department at Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust. She qualified in India, received her MD in Paediatrics and completed her paediatric training in London. Caroline is passionate about integrating acute paediatrics with endocrinology and diabetes. She is interested in clinical research and in nurturing junior doctors and nurses to create a culture of curiosity and learning in the Emergency department. Her recent research projects and publications exploring the link between paediatric diabetes and COVID are joint collaborations between emergency medicine and endocrinology.
Dr Michael Yoong
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Barts Health NHS Trust
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Course fee: £295
Includes VAT
- 120 days of access with unlimited playback during this time
- CPD Certificate of attendance upon completion with 12 CPD points
- Opportunity to submit questions directly to the faculty