Claire Mallinson

Consultant anaesthetist

Area of expertise: spinal correction surgery in children and adults

Biography

Claire Mallinson is a consultant anaesthetist specialising in anaesthesia for children's complex deformity surgery. She has helped to develop the third largest institute in the UK at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

Claire is director of medical education for one of the largest number of training doctors in the country. This involves:

managing and delivering education to our foundation programme
developing the IMPACT course and simulated skills course for F2 doctors and maxillo-facial junior doctors
developing a programme for the consultant trainers to ensure the quality of teaching and trainers
teaching medical junior doctors
teaching F1 and F2 doctors in lectures and action learning groups, giving feedback, appraisal and direction
phase 5 undergraduate teacher and lecturer.

Claire is part of the London Deanery clinical tutors group, often speaking and contributing to programmes. As Honorary Treasurer and Chair of NACT, Claire has also contributed to various national reports.

Further information

Claire is heavily involved in simulation training and coordinated a successful bid (over £900,000) for much of the simulation training equipment we use at our Simulation and Interactive Learning Centre (SaIL).

Claire speaks nationally and internationally about scoliosis and educational subjects. She runs a seminar at the Association of Anaesthetists for consultants on corrective scoliosis surgery and has also spoken at the Institute of Neurology on this subject.

Claire presents regularly at audit meetings, her most recent audit was in changing pre-assessment of children with low blood counts. They can be treated at home by their GP so that they do not need a blood transfusion after their operation.

Audit of Blood Usage in Spinal Correction Surgery- Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Experience Dr. Rajesh Pattanayak, SpR; Dr. Richard J Pinder, HO; Dr. Claire Mallinson, Consultant. Department of Anaesthesia, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

C Mallinson, J Bennett, P Hodgson, A Petros. Position of the internal jugular vein in children – a study of the anatomy using ultrasonography. Paediatric Anaesthesia July 1998

C Mallinson,, A Baranowski. A Review of urogenital pain. Chapter in Pain Reviews 1998. Edward Arnold, hadder Headline PLC, England over 200 references in a 97 page document