Mini-symposium: Paediatric dermatology

Having completed paediatric training in London, Dr Malbon moved to the USA in 2007 to undertake a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. During that time, she established an innovative text messaging service “Text in the City” for young people attending an adolescent health centre. She also used this platform to design and run a randomised controlled trial into birth control adherence, for which she was the principal investigator. While in New York, she trained and practiced as a forensic medical examiner for cases of sexual assault. Following her fellowship, Dr Malbon worked as an Attending Consultant in Adolescent Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. In 2013, she took a position at Tribeca Paediatrics where she developed and led a specialist adolescent service and served as President of the New York chapter of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.

Dr Malbon moved back to London in 2015 to take up her current post where she has established new services for Paediatric Rheumatology, Gynaecology, and Adolescent Medicine. She has been named doctor for safeguarding and is currently lead for adolescents and paediatric mental health. She was safeguarding trustee to the Girls Day School Trust during the pandemic and currently advises on a health and well-being App for Young People – Luna. She is clinical coordinator for child studies for the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD).

Dr Georgios Eleftheriou is Consultant General Paediatrician with special interests in rheumatology, dermatology, morbidity and mortality and safeguarding children. He is currently rheumatology lead, morbidity and mortality lead and named doctor for safeguarding children at The Royal London Children's Hospital. He did most of his rheumatology and dermatology training at Great Ormond Street.

Dr Tom Marrs is a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy working in the Children’s Allergies Department, Evelina London at St Thomas’ Hospital. He is Director of the Allergy Academy, and Senior Honorary Lecturer with Adjunct at King’s College London. Dr Marrs read Medicine, Psychology and Medical Law at Clare College, Cambridge, before completing his clinical training at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Medical School.

Dr Marrs was one of two allergists running the landmark Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) Study, which proved that babies who regularly eat peanut are protected from peanut allergy, and those eating egg are protected from egg allergy. He continued his clinical research as a Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London to investigate how the microbiome and lifestyle factors (such as bathing and pet ownership) may influence the development of eczema and allergic disease.

Dr Marrs currently leads the Food Allergen Introduction Service as well as the Joint Allergy Gastroenterology service. He is Director of the Allergy Academy from within King’s College London, which is the largest post-graduate institute for post-graduate allergy teaching in the UK.