The Immunology team includes consultants, specialist nurses, junior doctors, psychologists, ward nurses and play specialists.
Most outpatient care is supervised by a lead consultant working in collaboration with specialist nurses, while the other members of the team are involved in any day-case or in-patient stays. Other specialists closely involved with the department include social workers, dieticians and physiotherapists.
Medical staff
Consultants
Dr Alison Jones
Consultant Paediatric Immunologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer
Special interest(s): X-linked Agammaglobulinemia; Common Variable Immunodeficiency; Chromosome 22q11 microdeletion syndrome
Dr Cathy Cale
Consultant Paediatric Immunologist/Immunopathologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer
Special interest(s): Chediak-Higashi syndrome
Professor Bobby Gaspar
GOSHCC Professor/Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Immunology
Special interest(s): X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome and other EBV-related PIDs; Bone marrow transplantation and gene therapy for PID.
Please also see the Institute of Child Health's Molecular Immunology website.
Professor David Goldblatt
Professor of Vaccinology and Immunology/Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Immunology
Special interest(s): Chronic Granulomatous Disease.
Please also see the Institute of Child Health's Immunobiology Unit website.
Professor Adrian Thrasher
Professor in Paediatric Immunology/Honorary Consultant Immunologist
Special interest(s): Wiskott Aldrich syndrome; Gene therapy for PID.
Please also see the Institute of Child Health's Molecular Immunology website.
Dr Siobhan Burns
Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Immunology/Honorary Consultant Immunologist
Special interest(s): Disorders of innate immunity and neutrophil function.
Please also see the Institute of Child Health's Molecular Immunology website.
Associate specialist
Dr Amel Hassan
Staff Grade in Immunology
Special interest(s): Severe immunodeficiency and bone marrow transplantation
Nursing staff
Julie Bayliss
Senior Nurse
Clinical Nurse Specialists
Jinhua Xu-Bayford
Immunology/Gene Therapy Specialist Nurse
Special interest(s): Gene therapy and bone marrow transplantation
Claire Malcolmson
Immunology Specialist Nurse
Helen Braggins
CGD Specialist Nurse
Special interest(s): Chronic Granulomatous Disease
Management and administrative staff
Carla Hobart
General Manager
Bryony Freeman
Service Manager
Linda Steward
Admin and Performance Lead (Immunology/Infectious Diseases/BMT)
Chetan Patel
Medical Secretary
Bethan Hughes
Administrator
Zoe Allwood
Data Manager
Clinical Scientist
Kimberly Gilmour
Clinical Scientist
Special interest(s): Molecular Immunology
Responsible for national molecular diagnostic service for primary immunodeficiency.
Clinical Immunology Laboratory contact number: 020 7829 8835
