GMC Number: 4031374
My undergraduate medical training was completed at Guy’s Hospital where I qualified as a doctor in 1993. Since 1995 I have been working as a paediatrician, undertaking posts in a variety of hospitals across London and the South East, including Evelina Children’s Hospital. From 2001 I have specialised in neurodevelopment, gaining accreditation with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in General Paediatrics with a specialist interest in Community Child Health in 2006.
I have held several NHS Consultant posts in London and the South East and have received specialist training in undertaking developmental assessments (including Schedule of Growing Skills, Bayley’s and Griffiths III), assessments of children for autism spectrum disorders (including DISCO, ADI and ADOS-2) and assessments of children for ADHD, attachment difficulties, foetal alcohol syndrome or spectrum disorders. Responsibilities have included being the lead for behavioural paediatrics and the ADHD lead, the CAMHS liaison paediatrician working within CAMHS part time and I have also been the medical adviser for adoption and fostering for 3 different Local Authorities and the Designated Doctor for Looked after Children in Kent. My clinical duties have included general paediatric developmental clinics, assessments of children presenting with a range of behavioural conditions, diagnostic assessments for children with ADHD and/ or Autism Spectrum Disorders, follow up of children with ADHD, diagnosis and follow up of children with complex disability and safeguarding issues.
Over the past 6 years I have developed a detailed, holistic, multidisciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment process which identifies a child’s strengths and difficulties as well as make any relevant diagnoses. I feel passionately about the need to recognise neurodiversity in order to fully understand a child’s strengths and difficulties and how best to support them. I am particularly interested in the additional challenges that a dual diagnosis of ASD and ADHD brings to a child.
I am a fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and I have previously been an executive and council member of the British Association of Community Child Health (BACCH). I was editor of the BACCH Magazine from 2014 to 2017. I am a member of the British Paediatric Mental Health Group and member of the George Still Forum for ADHD.