The kidney team

This section provides information about some of the staff you may meet.

Consultant nephrologists

Dr Caroline Booth – head of service
Dr Nabil Melhem
Dr Jo Clothier
Dr Helen Jones
Dr Ania Koziell – senior clinical lecturer
Dr Manish Sinha
Dr Nicholas Ware
Dr Shazia Adalat
Gajendran Sellathurai
Jenny Preka

Consultant transplant surgeons

Mr Nicos Kessaris
Mr Francis Calder
Mr Chris Callaghan
Mr Martin Drage

Nurse specialists

Kate Mythen – renal transplant coordinator
Joanne Newton – hypertension clinical nurse specialist
Charlotte Futcher – hypertension clinical nurse specialist
Katie Naylor – home dialysis clinical nurse specialist
Melissa Brassington – home dialysis clinical nurse specialist
Heidi Ramsey – hospital haemodialysis lead nurse
Ellen White – chronic kidney disease clinical nurse specialist
Emma Rigby – nephrology clinical nurse specialist
Grainne Walsh – transplant advanced nurse practitioner

Matrons

Ellen Samuel – matron, Beach Ward
Carmen Barton – matron, dialysis service

Social worker

Munira Asaria – 020 7188 4607 / 0755 441 7682

Dietitians

Triona Joyce
Tara Hall

Dietitians tel: 020 7188 9604

Pharmacists

Will Thornhill

Pharmacy dispensary tel: 020 7188 9152

Service managers

Rachel Hussey– service manager
Janel Burns – assistant service manager

General Paeds/Medicine changes

Paediatrics team, Paediatrics staff, Paediatricians, General doctors

This section provides information about some of the staff you may meet.

Consultants

Dr Bianca Tiesman
Dr Ronny Cheung
Dr Ajanta Kamal
Dr Claire Lemer
Dr Chloe Macaulay
Dr Mark Butler
Dr Emma Parish
Dr Rohana Ramachandran
Dr Sharon Roberts
Dr Alice Roueché
Dr Marie White
Dr Kate Dharmarajah
Dr Kate Irwin

IMMID changes

Infectious diseases and immunology service

About us

We are a growing team of specialist doctors, nurses and other health professionals who care for children affected by:

severe infections, both acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term)
unusual infections
frequent infections
tropical infections
new or epidemic infections
problems of their immune system.

Infection prevention and control is also an important part of our work, as is promoting the appropriate and responsible use of antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines.

We work closely with specialist colleagues from every department of Evelina London and with the infectious diseases team for adult patients and the department of infection at St Thomas' Hospital. This is to make sure that every child has access to specialist infectious diseases and immunology expertise when they need it.

When children are are recovering from severe infections but still require long courses of intravenous antibiotics, we support their ongoing treatment in their own homes, offering outpatient antibiotic therapy (p-OPAT). This helps to minimise disruption of family life wherever possible. Find out more about our outpatient antibiotic (p-OPAT) service.

We are part of the national network of ‘paediatric immunology and infectious diseases specialists (PIID)'. We collaborate closely with the other major PIID services across London and more widely.

Research

We take part in national and international research studies – recent projects have included: