R Mark Beattie, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Honorary Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and University of Southampton, Southampton, UK,Anil Dhawan, Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology and Professor of Paediatric Hepatology, King's College London, London, UK,John WL Puntis, Consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK,Akshay Batra, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK,Eirini Kyrana, Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds UK

Professor Beattie is a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Honorary Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the University of Southampton. He was also the Editor in Chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood between 2012-2017, and the past President of the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition.


Dr Puntis completed his undergraduate training in Southampton, followed by postgraduate training in Birmingham Children's Hospital. He was appointed consultant and moved to Yorkshire in 1990 as director of neonatal services. He developed a regional gastroenterology and nutrition service based at Leeds General Infirmary, where he is head of the multidisciplinary nutritional support team. He has a research interest in clinical nutrition, and has previously been a member of nutritional committees of the RCPCH and ESPGHAN.

Professor Dhawan is a consultant in paediatric hepatology with a special interest in liver cell transplantation, immunosuppression after liver transplantation, acute liver failure, and neonatal cholestasis. He qualified as a doctor in India, and has held appointments in the USA and the UK, and has board level appointments with the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Heptatology, and Nutrition; the International Liver Transplantation Society, and the Cell Transplantation Society. He is the Clinical Academic Group Leader for Child Health and King's Health Partners.

Dr Batra was trained in paediatrics and specialised in paediatric gastroenterology at Birmingham Children's Hospital, and has been working as a consultant at Southampton Hospital sicne 2011. He looks after children with a broad range of gastrointestinal conditions, but has a special interest in infant nutrition and gut motility disorders, and is part of a national motility working group with BSPGHAN.
He currently leads the nutritional support services for children at Southampton Hospital, facilitating nutritional rehabilitation of children.

Dr Kyrana is a paediatric hepatologist with a strong interest in nutrition and metabolism in paediatric chronic liver disease. Her training in paediatric hepatology, gastroenterology and nutrition was at King's College Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. She holds a diploma in paediatric nutrition (RCPCH) and an MDRes in paediatric hepatology, looking at body composition and metabolic profiles of children with end stage liver disease (King's College London). She is currently a Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology at the paediatric liver unit at Leeds General Infirmary.

Alastair Baker
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology and Clinical Lead of Paediatric Hepatology and Nutrition, King's College London, London, UK
Sanjay Bansal
Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist, Child Health Clinical Academic Group, King's College London, London, UK
Dharam Basude
Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Bristol Children's Hospital, Bristol, UK
Akshay Batra
Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
Mark Beattie
Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Professor in Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Ronald Bremner
Clinical Lead of Paediatric Hepatology and Nutrition, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Anil Dhawan
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology and Professor of Paediatric Hepatology, King's College London, London, UK
Emer Fitzpatrick
Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, Paediatric Liver, GI and Nutrition Centre, King's College London, London, UK
Tassos Grammatikopoulos
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Dino Hadzic
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology and Professor of Paediatric Hepatology, King's College London, London, UK
Nicky Heather
Highly specialist paediatric dietitian - gastroenterology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
Rob Hegarty
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology and Professor of Paediatric Hepatology, King's College London, London, UK
Jonathan Hind
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology and Intestinal Transplantation, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Lucy Howarth
Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
Van Jain
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Deepa Kamat
Paediatric Dietician, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Fevronia Kiparissi
Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
Eirini Kyrana
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
Mich Lajeunesse
Consultant in Paediatric Allergy and Immunology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
Sara Mancell
Paediatric Dietician, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Lily Martin
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Stephen Mouat
Paediatric Hepatologist and Gastroenterologist, Starship Child Health, Auckland, New Zealand
John Puntis
Consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK
Marianne Samyn
Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Naresh P Shanmugam
Senior Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology, Institute of Advanced Paediatrics, Chennai, India
Mike Stanton
Paediatric Surgeon, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
Nancy Tan
Paediatrician, SBCC Baby & Child Clinic, Novena, Singapore
Stuart Tanner
Professor, Department of Child Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Mark Tighe
Consultant Paediatrician, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Poole, UK
Giorgina Vergani
Director of Paediatric Liver Science, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Anita Verma
Consultant Microbiologist, Department of Medical Microbiology, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Anthony Wiskin
Consultant paediatric Gastroenterologist, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK