Current NHS consultant posts held
Consultant paediatric epilepsy and neurodisability at St Georges Hospital, London
Research interests
Epilepsy, neurology, neurodisability,
Personal interests
walking, reading, spending time with the family
Awards received
Professor Hall Prize for outstanding Neurodisability work for MSc neurodisability
Publications
• G199(P) Audit of information provided to parents of children with epilepsy; http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/Suppl_3/A85.3 poster
• Pitfalls in the diagnosis of neonatal herpes infection and learning from our mistake/a report of a case of disseminated neonatal herpes simplex with treatment failure; http://adc.bmj.com/content/96/Suppl_1/A55.1 poster
• Pitfalls in the diagnosis and management of juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a retrospective case-note analysis; Archives of Disease in Childhood 2010;95; poster http://adc.bmj.com/content/95/Suppl_1/A36.1
• Survey of telephone calls to tertiary paediatric neurology, I Hadjikaumi, M Ghazavi. Archives Disease of childhood 2007, 92: 561-562; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2066176/
• G109 Central fever and autonomic dysfunction after traumatic brain injury in children; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2066045/ RCPCH talk
• Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and bilateral parietal polymicrogyria in association with the intrauterine death of a twin; Neuropediatrics. 1996 Feb;27(1):54-6; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8677028
• Pitfalls in the diagnosis and management of transient synovitis of the hip: a retrospective case-note analysis; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426947
• Childhood meningitis — review of pathogens and outcome; poster https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163445302903373
• Safety and effectiveness of hormonal treatment versus hormonal treatment with vigabatrin for infantile spasms (ICISS): a randomised, multicentre, open-label trial; study group http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laneur/PIIS1474-4422(16)30294-0.pdf
• Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy; poster http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2001.tb00163.x/pdf
• Congenital muscular dystrophy, presented as a poster in Berlin- Germany, 2nd European paediatric congress in 1996; poster
• As part of the Gabapentin Paediatric Study Group, there are 2 papers:
o Gabapentin as add-on therapy in children with refractory partial seizures: A12-wk multi centre double blind placebo controlled study; Epilepsia 40(80); 1999, 1147-1154. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00833.x/epdf
o Gabapentin as add-on therapy in children with refractory partial seizures: a 24-wk, multicentre, open-lable study; Developmental Medicine &child Neurology 2001, 43: 269-273; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2001.tb00201.x/epdf
Courses offered to GPs
2 hours emodule on juvenile idiopathic arthritis for doctors.org.uk, 2008
2 houhrs emodule on cerebral palsy for doctors.org.uk, 2011
talk on cerebral palsy in children
talk on epilepsy
talk on children with neurofibromatosis
talk on developmental disorder/ delay
