Biography
Tammy Hedderly is an acute paediatric neurologist with an interest in children's onset movement disorders.
She provides sub-speciality neurology input for Wilson’s Disease, and complex communication disorders and also has an interest in children's intensive care neurology. She has experience in providing xeroderma support.
Tammy established and leads the TANDeM service. This is now an established multi-disciplinary clinic in the paediatric neurosciences team with input from child and adolescent psychiatrist, specialist clinical psychologists and a liaison nurse specialist. This service offers assessment and management for tics and tourette's and complex developmental difficulties. This includes psychological as well as pharmacological management.
She has a longstanding interest in teaching and training and has contributed to PASTTEST course material (written and clinical) and has been involved in organising exams for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health as well as development and delivery of examination courses.
She is an honorary senior lecturer at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and is active in research projects for tourette's and genetics.
- BSc (Hons) Psychology, University College London, 1994
- Medicine (MBBS), Imperial College London, 1995
- Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1997
- Paediatric neurology distance learning, 2002 to 2005
- Tics and tourette's
- Motor stereotypies
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Brain tumours
- Childhood movement disorders
- Stroke
- Wilson's Disease
- Children's intensive care neurology
- Grant holder for several projects
- Guy's and St Thomas' Charity grant for development of the TANDeM service
- UK principal investigator, 7th framework reserach programme, European Multicentre Tics in Children Studies
- Joint principal investogator, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), genetics of tic disorders UK
- Health technology assessment evidence synthesis
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Nominated for a Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust CARE award, 2011