Practical paediatrics for the generalist

Edna Roche is a professor In paediatrics at the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and a consultant paediatric endocrinologist at the Children’s Hospital Ireland at Tallaght University Hospital, where she leads a busy tertiary service in paediatric endocrinology and diabetes. She holds an M.B, M.D, and MBA from the University of Dublin, postgraduate qualifications from the NUI, Membership and Fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Edinburgh and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health London. Professor Roche established and leads the Irish Childhood Diabetes National Register.

She is also a member of the international Hvidore and EURODIAB Diabetes Research Groups. She chairs the Nutrition Council of the Irish Heart Foundation and is a member of the Paediatrics and Child Health Clinical Advisory Group of the Faculty of Paediatrics, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI). She was appointed to the Board of the Irish Medical Council by the Minister for Health. Her research interests include diabetes–epidemiology and clinical care, down syndrome – epidemiology, health issues, health service utilisation, clinical care, growth and development (SGA and Obesity) and rare disorders of Prader-Willi and Turner syndromes.

Dr Eleanor Minshall is the lead for Paediatric Allergy at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. She undertook her medical training at Cambridge and has a PhD in Pharmacology from King’s College, London.

During her post-doctoral fellowship in Montreal, Dr Minshall published extensively on the cytokines and chemokines involved in allergic inflammation. Her interests currently lie in the mechanisms responsible for tolerance induction and the role of eosinophils and basophils in the allergic manifestations of food allergy.

Dr Girish Gupte is a Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist at Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital NHS Foundation trust since 2004 and is the Clinical Lead for the Intestinal Transplantation service and Metabolic liver disease service. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate training in Paediatrics in Mumbai, India and came to the UK for further training in 1995. He did his initial training in various parts of the country and did his specialist training in Paediatric Hepatology at Birmingham Children's Hospital from 2001-2004.

His main areas of interest are non-invasive markers of rejection in the liver and/or intestinal transplantation, quality of life following transplantation, antibody-mediated rejection in the liver and/or intestinal transplantation, nutrition in the liver and/or intestinal transplantation. He has delivered lectures nationally and internationally on various topics related to liver diseases and intestinal transplantation.

He has organised postgraduate courses at both national and international levels, study days to further knowledge about the management of paediatric liver disease and intestinal transplantation. He is currently on the ESPGHAN Hepatology Committee since 2016 and has been on the Executive committee (Treasurer BSPGHAN, 2014-2017) and also served on the council of IRTA (Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Association, 2009-2013), and past chair of NITE (Network for Intestinal Failure and Transplantation in Europe). He is deputy chair of the MCTAG advisory group for NHSBT and is keen to promote organ donation within various communities.

Dr Max Davie is a consultant community paediatrician working in Lambeth as part of Evelina London Community services. He has a special clinical interest in the assessment and diagnosis of neurodevelopmental conditions in school-age children. He is also the officer for health improvement at the RCPCH where he is working on population health issues including mental health and obesity.