Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland

Paediatric ST2 Trainee in North West London

Professor Adilia Warris is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist with a specific interest in medical mycology. She is co-director of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter. She holds an honorary position in paediatric infectious diseases at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

Professor Sir Nicholas John White FRS is Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand and at Oxford University, UK. He is also a Consultant Physician in acute general medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Professor White is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow who chairs the Wellcome Trust Tropical Medicine Research Programmes in South East Asia. His main research focus is the pathophysiology and treatment of malaria. He has authored over 1100 scientific publications and 50 book chapters. He has received the Prince Mahidol Prize for Medicine, the Canada Gairdner Foundation Global Health Prize, and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Manson medal. He co-chaired the WHO antimalarial treatment guidelines committee for twelve years and currently chairs the Scientific Advisory board of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative. He is co-principal investigator of the COPCOV hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine COVID-19 PREP study.

Dr Liz Whittaker is Senior Clinical Lecturer in paediatric infectious diseases and immunology. She divides her time between Imperial College London and the Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, St. Marys Hospital, London where she is a Consultant. Before COVID, her research interests were in host immune responses to TB and CMV Dr Whittaker is the co-lead for HCID (high consequence infectious diseases) at St Marys. She is on the RCPCH COVID expert advisory group. Together with colleagues in the UK, she described a novel inflammatory syndrome in children known as PIMS (paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome) or MIS-C (Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children). Liz is the paediatric specialty co-lead for the northwest London Clinical Research Network. In this role, she leads the development and support of local clinical research network activity in paediatrics. She is PI of a number of commercial and non-commercial studies. Liz is the Convener of the British Paediatric Allergy, Immunity and Infection Group (BPAIIG) and Chairperson of the British Association of Paediatric TB (BAPT).

Dr Wong is currently a paediatric infectious diseases trainee based at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, U.K and has also completed a two-year clinical fellowship in paediatric infectious diseases based in Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in Canada. His research interest is in parasitic infections and tropical diseases.