I am a consultant in paediatric infectious diseases at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Professor of Practice at Imperial College. I run both HIV and Congenital infection clinics at St Mary’s Hospital in London, and I am ward-attending consultant for Paediatric Infectious Diseases 4 months per year. I am a member of PENTA-ID and participate in HIV treatment trials for children. I have been actively involved in development of international courses for education for Paediatric Infections for many years, working with PENTA and the European Society for paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID). From 2018 - 2021, I was a member of the board of ESPID. I am now a Trustee on the board of the ESPID Foundation. In 2020, with colleagues from around Europe, we set up CCMVNET (ccmvnet@gmail.com ) – an international network built around a registry of children with congenital CMV, currently I am chair of the network. Our aim is to learn as much as possible about this condition, and promote collaboration for research into prevention and treatment. Fundamentally, I am a front line clinician who can bring people together – children, families and peer supporters ,clinicians, laboratory scientists, epidemiologists, virologists, pharmacologists, and trialists,– all the team that we will need to change the future for children with congenital infections.