GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT GROUP
The
Guideline Development Group members were invited to join because of their field
of interest and availability to participate.
Dr
Maria Atkinson (Clinical Research Fellow,
Dr
David Bond (General Paediatrician,
Dr
Jim Bonham (Clinical Chemist, Sheffield
Children’s Hospital)
Dr Richard Bowker (Clinical Research Fellow,
University of Nottingham)
Gordon Denney (Lay representative)
Dr Mandy Hampshire (Primary Care representative,
Lecturer in Primary Care,
Miss Susie Hewitt (Consultant
/ Head of service, Emergency Department, Derby Royal Infirmary,
Dr
Monica Lakhanpaul (Guideline Methodologist / Senior
Lecturer in Child Health, University of
Dr
Ian Maconochie (Consultant in Paediatric Emergency
Department, St. Mary’s, London)
Sr
Sue Shipston (Sister / Emergency Practitioner,
Emergency Department, QMC, Nottingham)
Dr
Stephanie Smith (Consultant in Paediatric Emergency
Department, QMC, Nottingham)
Prof. Terence Stephenson (Chairman
/ Professor of Child Health and Dean of University of Nottingham Medical
School)
Dr
Harish Vyas (Consultant in PICU, QMC,
Nottingham)
Dr
John Walter (Consultant in Metabolic Medicine,
Willink Institute, Manchester)
Dr
William Whitehouse (Senior Lecturer in Paediatric
Neurologist, University of Nottingham)
Mr
and Mrs Fountain (Patient representatives,
None of the
members have declared any conflict of interest for their participation in
producing the guideline. Richard Bowker has been funded by a grant from the
National Reyes Syndrome Foundation of the United Kingdom to work on the
guideline as a clinical research fellow.