CHEERI committee
Dr Philip Adedokun
Role: Co-chair, Paediatric research fellow, Paediatric Undergraduate Regional Educator
Interests: Paediatric Neurology, Public health
Dr Sarra SaadAlla
Role: Co-chair, Paediatric SPR, Paediatric Undergraduate Regional Educator (PURE), BSAPCH academic office member
Interests: Paediatric Rheumatology, Teaching, Associate PI, Quality Improvement
Dr Asia Chan
Role: Academic Liaison
Interests: Paediatrics mental health
Dr Declan Hines
Role: Website lead, email and media
Interests: Medical education, neurology and neurodisability
Dr Carla Kantyka
Role: Website mentor, former website lead
Interests: Neonatology, paediatric registrar, research skills education,
Dr Heba Shawky
Role: IMG co-rep
Interests: Neonatology, IMG training, Paediatric registrar
Dr Rachana Varma
Role: Mentor, former co-chair
Interests: Renal medicine, Paediatric registrar, Associate PI in Clinical trial
Dr Jonathon Holland
Role: Mentor, former co-chair
Interests: Multiple sclerosis; Paediatric Neurology. Post-CCT paediatric neurologist; Action Medical Research and British Paediatric Neurology Association Research Training Fellowship
Dr Ben Marlow
Role: CHEERI consultant mentor, Community Paediatric consultant, Director of The Synapse Center for Neurodevelopment in ESNEFT
Interests: Neurodisability; Evidence based medicine; Biochemistry and pharmaceuticals
Cheeri alumni
Those who have made significant contributions to CHEERI, but have now left the deanery
Dr Thiloka Ratnaike,
Role: CHEERI founder
Interests: Mitochondrial disease; Rare disease diagnosis; Improving access to research opportunities and skills for juniors; Genomics
Dr Elizabeth Radford
Interests: Genetics; Neurology; CRISPR and it’s roll in diagnosis, Paediatric Pint of Science Organiser, Research design lead, Academic Clinical Lecturer – Paediatric Neurology
Dr Constantinos Kanaris
Interests: Paediatric critical care
Dr Amy Lee
Interests: Cardiology, QI
Dr Sharmila Manivannan
Interests: Paediatric Neurology
Dr Hannah Mechie
Interests: Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Jenny Yang
Interests: Rare disease research, Genetics
Dr Chad Lambert
Interests: global child health, paediatric trainee, developing a project surrounding health inequalities created by travel expenses
Dr Asma Soltani
Interests: Newlife clinical research fellow, genetics and neurology, PhD in neuroscience. Currently looking in to genetic mutations in neurological conditions like Rett syndrome and autism.
Dr Swati Jha
Interests: Paediatric neurology, paediatric trainee
Dr Gemma Wilson
Interests: Respiratory medicine
Dr Alison Skippen PhD
Interests: Paediatric neurology, medical education, mentoring, access to research.
Dr Lipi Shekhar
Interests: Paediatric Neurology
Dr Erva Cinar
Interests: Global child health, advocating for equal access to health services, and improving access to education and research activities for International Medical Graduates.