Place of work

Mehul Dattani is Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology based at the University College London (UCL) Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

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career history
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achievements

Mehul Dattani was Specialty Lead in Endocrinology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) between 2006-2023. He has an active clinical practice in paediatric and adolescent Endocrinology at GOSH and University College London Hospitals (UCLH). He completed a 3-year term as Chair of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (2010-2013), followed by a 7 year term as Chair of the Programme Organizing Committee and as member of the Council of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE). He is the Convenor/Host of the Annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology for 2024, and hosted the ESPE2021 Online Annual meeting. Professor Dattani’s primary research interest lies in unravelling the molecular basis of hypothalamo-pituitary disease. He has identified novel genes implicated in hypothalamo-pituitary development in patients with congenital hypopituitarism and related disorders. He has over 300 publications spanning all paediatric endocrinology.

Place of work

Sally Tollerfield is a Paediatric Endocrine Clinical Nurse Specialist at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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career history
and key
achievements

Sally has been an Endocrine Nurse Specialist since 2000. She has held research roles previously, with a focus on foetal growth and was also the UK study coordinator for the Safety of Growth Hormone Study (SAGhE).

Her interests include caring for patients and their families with hypopituitarism and Septo-optic dysplasia and Sally developed the ‘My Cortisol’ app to support parents giving emergency IM hydrocortisone in the community. More recently, Sally has been involved with the inception and execution of ‘Think Adrenal’ in the Trust which provides education to staff and resources for use to facilitate the safe care of patients with adrenal insufficiency.

Sally worked as part of the Paediatric Adrenal Insufficiency group at BSPED sitting on the subcommittee creating the BSPED steroid card. She is currently involved with the development of an adrenal crisis action card in the Paediatric Quick Reference Handbook for the UK Resus Council. She also sits on the NICE committee for producing Adrenal Insufficiency guidelines for adults and children.

Place of work

Peter Laing is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and is the lead Endocrine Nurse at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool.

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career history
and key
achievements

Peter has worked in Paediatric Endocrinology for more than 20 years and is the current Vice-Chair of the BSPED Paediatric Endocrine Nurses group.

He is passionate about delivering advanced nursing practice and developing nurse-led services that aim to support patients and their family's through education. Peter has a special interest in neuro-endocrine disorders, hypothyroidism and sex chromosome disorders including Hypogonadism and Klinefelters syndrome.