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Dr Mary Anthony
As Departmental Audit Chairman undertook with the Clinical Audit Services an
audit of paediatric activity in A&E in January 1998 with a view to
implementing changes to shorter admission times and improve clinical services.
Changes have been made and will need to be re-evaluated in the winter of
1998/9. The audit results are in preparation for publication.
Dr Nick Archer
Dr Archer remains on the Editorial Board with Archives of Diseases of
Childhood.
Dr Mike Burch
Dr Burch has been commissioned to write two editorials - (1) for Archives of
Diseases of Childhood on ‘new strategies for the management of heart
failure’ and (2), ‘hypertrophic cardiomyopathy’ for the Journal
of Paediatric Cardiology. Dr Burch has supervised Dr Lucy Grain in her project
looking at ‘Cardiac function in carriers of the Duchenne Muscular
Dystrophy gene’. Dr Burch took up appointment as District Clinical Trust
for the Oxford district in October 1998.
Dr Clare Burns
Member of MacKeith Meetings Committee Referee for Developmental Medicine and
Child Neurology
Dr Janet Craze
Two new teaching sessions for junior paediatric staff in the John Radcliffe
have been introduced so there is now a regular teaching exercise every weekday.
The medical student paediatric course has been redesigned by Prof. Wilkinson
and the new programme will be piloted in January 1999. Closer liaison between
the nurses of 4C and A and E staff with teaching input from Dr. Craze for
nurses and SHOs in A and E have been introduced to try to maintain a good
standard of care for children not directly cared for by paediatric staff. Dr
Gerald Draper Gerald Draper continued to be a member of the Committee on
Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment, the Steering Committee for the
Small Area Health Statistics Unit and the DH Advisory Committee on Cancer
Registration, chairing the Working Group on the national Cancer Registration
Minimum Dataset. He was also on the DH Expert Group on Cot Death Theories.
Mr Nick Dudley
Mr Dudley holds numerous management positions locally, nationally and at
international level. He is a member of the Higher Awards Committee, Regional
Advisor for All Surgical Specialities, Regional Advisor for Paediatric Surgery,
Member of Local Medical Workforce Advisory Groups Committee, Member of South
East Paediatric Surgery Education and Training Consortium, President British
Association of Endocrine Surgeons, member of Executive BAES, Examiner for the
Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), Invited Member of the American
Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Council Member of the International
Association of Endocrine Surgeons. All three surgeons are involved in giving
lectures to the Medical Students, Ward Round teaching and tutorials and
outpatient clinic sessions and examinations
Dr David Dunger
British Diabetic Association Children's and Young Person's Committee, 1990 -
present. Research Committee, 1995 - 1998. European Society for Paediatric
Endocrinology Committee for the Selection of ESPE Research Fellows, 1995 -
present Juvenile Diabetes Federation (UK) Advisory Group Editorial Board (1996
onwards) KIGS UK Executive Scientific Committee, Chairman (1997 onwards)
British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Chairman of Clinical
Trials / Audit Unit (1998 onwards) Audit Commission/Diabetes Advisory Group
(1998 onwards) Journal of Growth Hormone & IGF Research Editorial board
1998 onwards
Dr Julie Edge
Diabetes Steering Group within British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and
Diabetes.
Mr Hugh Grant
Mr Grant is on the BST appointment committee and is a regular reviewer of both
books and abstracts for the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Dr Ann Harris
Journal of Medical Genetics-Molecular Genetics editor (till July 1998-
resigned!). Handbooks in practical animal cell culture. Series Editor. Ann
Harris. Cambridge University Press. Undergraduate teaching- physiological
sciences course. D.Phil/Ph.D examiner: Oxford, London Edinburgh.
Miss Rowena Hitchcock
Miss Hitchcock continues as Clinical Director and member of the Board for the
hospital.
Dr Mark Hunter
BACCH Regional Co-ordinator.
Dr Dominic Kwiatkowski
In 1998, Dominic Kwiakowski was appointed to a MRC Clinical Research
Professorship and awarded the University title of Professor of Tropical
Paediatrics. Dominic Kwiatkowski served on an External Advisory Committee of
the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (USA). Appointed to
MRC Clinical Research Professorship and awarded the University title of
Professor of Tropical Paediatrics.
Dr Tony McShane
Dr McShane is the paediatric representative on the Regional panel for
Intra-venous Immunoglobulin treatment, and lead clinician for the Adolescent
Unit. He has contributed to undergraduate & postgraduate teaching and
undergraduate examination, and has reviewed books and papers for Archives of
Disease in Childhood and for Brain, and acts as a referee for grant
applications for two charitable bodies.
Dr Chris Mitchell
Member of Medical Research Council (MRC) Childhood Leukaemia Working Group.
Co-ordinator of MRC ALL 97 study of therapy in childhood acute lymphoblastic
leukaemia. Chairman of United Kingdom Children’s Cancer Study Group
(UKCCSG) Wilms’ tumour committee. Co-ordinator of UKCCSG UK W3 study of
therapy in Wilms’ tumour. Member of UKCCSG Biological Studies and
Soft-tissue Sarcoma Committees Member of UKCCSG Manuscript Review Committee.
Professor E Richard Moxon
Committees: Research Grants Committee, Jesus College, Oxford, 1993-. Member,
MRC Expert Working Group on a National Strategy for Vaccine R & D 1995 -
Member, External Advisory Committee for the Finnish Efficacy Trial of
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines against Acute Otitis Media, 1995 - Member,
Scientific Advisory Committee, The Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine
Research, 1996 - Oxford University Biological Safety Advisory Group, 1997 -
Pneumococcal Vaccine Efficacy and Effectiveness Trial Data and Safety
Monitoring Board, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 1997 - University of
Oxford Board of the Faculty of Clinical Medicine Member, Dean’s Advisory
Group, Clinical School Editor Archives of Diseases in Childhood Journal of
Infection (Specialist Advisor to Editorial Board) Microbial Pathogenesis
Current Opinion in Paediatrics: Section on Infectious Diseases Trends in
Microbiology Was awarded an A+ Distinction Award by the Regional Awards
Committee.
Dr Inga Ostman-Smith
Dr Ostman-Smith continued to work in the field of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
and has began collaboration with Professor Watkins. Dr Ostman-Smith is the
Regional Adviser for paediatric cardiology training in the Oxford region; Dr
Burch has taken on the role of Deputy Regional Adviser to Dr Fran Acland in
Paediatrics, and has in particular, introduced the Assessment system to Oxford
Paediatric Calman Trainees.
Dr Jo Poulton
Reader in Mitochondrial Genetics, Department of Paediatrics, University of
Oxford from Oct 1998 . Clare Freeman Emmerson awarded D.Phil, November 1998.
Dr Clare Robertson
Organiser of Oxfordshire’s Paediatric Surveillance Course for General
Practitioners.
Dr M Pike
Dr Pike is Paediatric College Tutor, has contributed to undergraduate &
postgraduate teaching and undergraduate examination. He has reviewed papers for
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. He has been co-opted to the Council
of the British Paediatric Neurology Association to conduct an evaluation of the
provision of paediatric neurology services in Centres in the United Kingdom.
Dr Alison Schefler
Dr. Alison Shefler and Dr. Emily Williams are members of the Paediatric
Intensive Care Clinical Working Group for Anglia and Oxford, and in keeping
with the remit of a Lead Centre, will be providing regional outreach training
to nurses, junior doctors, and paramedical personnel. Dr. Shefler is a member
of the Oxford Ambulance Service Paramedic Steering Committee.
Dr Charles Stiller
Charles Stiller is still on the editorial boards of Leukaemia and the European
Journal of Cancer.
Dr Peter Sullivan
Senior External Examiner in the University of London Examinations for the Final
M.B.,B.S. Degrees. 1996 - 2000 Working Party of the Department of Health's
Medicines Control Agency which investigating suggestions of a link between
autism and/or intestinal damage and MMR vaccination. Chairman-Elect of the
Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN).
Secretary of the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition:
1996-1999 Teaching, Training and Research Group (Chairman), Childrens Clinical
Centre,Oxford Radcliffe Hospital 1995- General Council of the Commonwealth
Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. (Chairman-Elect
1997-2000; Chairman 2000-2003) Council of the British Society of Paediatric
Gastroenterology and Nutrition: (Secretary :1996-) British Society of
Gastroenterology: Speciality Convenors Committee (representing paediatric
gastroenterology) Organising Committee of the National Register of Paediatric
Inflammatory Bowel Disease 1997 - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child
Health: Speciality Convenors Committee (representing paediatric
gastroenterology) 1996 - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health:
International Committee 1998 - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health:
College Specialist Advisory Committee on Paediatric Gastroenterology,
Hepatology and Nutrition (co-opted member) Project Steering Group, Four
Counties Review of Allergy Services.
Dr Anne Thomson
Committees 1. University - general Purposes Committee and Clinical Medicine
Board 2. British Thoracic Society Standards of Care Committee Examiner 1. MD
University of London 1995-1998. 2. Second MB University of Oxford.
Dr Ann Wakefield
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.
Awarded the Henry Warembourg Medal, by the Faculty of Medicine, University of
Lille, France.
Dr Stephen Westaby
Dr Westaby inserted the first artificial heart in a child and the child was
successfully bridged to transplantation.
Caroline Chaplin – RCN Pain Management Audit - Contributing to
the Children’s Clinical Centre TPN Forum to establish protocols
Julia Coles – External Examiner for paediatric Critical Care
Course: South Bank University
Dianne Davidson – Honorary Lecturer: Law and Ethics Hastings
General Hospital
Nettie Dearmun – Standing Medical Advisory Committee Royal College
of Surgeons – Paediatric Forum Royal College of Nursing House of commons
select committee working party External Examiner MSc Nursing – South Bank
University Referee: Journal of Advanced Nursing, Evidence Based Nursing,
Journal of Nursing Management Editorial Board: Paediatric Nursing
Jan Gilbert - Member of the British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology
and Diabetes
Kim Gordon - RCN Pain Management Audit RCN Paediatric Advanced Nursing
Practice Group
Becky Harding - RCN Pain Management Audit
Angela Houston - Steering Group RCN Oncology Nurses Forum
Nancy Mew - Contributed to the Children’s Clinical Centre TPN
Forum to establish protocols
Caroline Pepys – Trust Senior Nurse Child protection Executive
Committee – Neonatal Nurses Association
Carole Smith - RCN Paediatric Advanced Nursing Practice Group
The following nurses obtained degrees during the year:
Kate Convery: BSc (Hons) neonatal studies Aylanee Fernando: BSc
(Hons) neonatal Studies (ENB A19) Angela Houlston: BSc (Hons) Cancer
Nursing (Manchester University) Theresa Johnson: BA (Hons)
Children’s Nursing (RN Child) Elizabeth Knox: BA (Hons)
Children’s Nursing (RN Child) Kirsten McKilligan: BA (Hons) Health
Care Studies Melanie Robinson: BSc (Hons) Critical and Specialist Care
The following nurses successfully completed ENB or OBU courses:
Anne Carr, Caroline Chaplen, Jane Cowes, Kerry Gaskin, Rebecca Hill, Gaynor
McGinniss, Nancy Mew, Sian Rees, Emily Rushton, Leigh Shaw, Susan Stableford,
Gail Tector, Trudy Thomas, Nettie Tarzey, Leonnie Willis.
The following completed PALS courses:
Anne Carr, Julia Fairbairn, Kathy Lurcook, David Waller
Other awards
Kim Gordon – Cowe & Gate Scholarship funded educational visit
to San Fracisco to investigate Paediatric Nurse practice and development of the
role.
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