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Pharmacy team

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

Chief Children's Pharmacist and Associate Chief Pharmacist

  • Nanna Christiansen

Service leads

  • Helen Cooper – south east London lead pharmacist for for medicines value and paediatric formulary interface
  • Sian Gaze – clinical service lead, medicine and neonatology
  • Ashifa Trivedi –  clinical service lead, medicine and neonatology
  • Patricia Hayes – pharmacy operations manager
  • Sara Arenas – consultant pharmacist, paediatric critical care
  • Sian Bentley – consultant pharmacist, paediatric chronic suppurative lung diseases
  • Sukeshi Makhecha – consultant pharmacist, paediatric asthma and respiratory medicine
  • Pritesh Patel – lead pharmacist, Principal Treatment Centre transformation
  • William Thornhill – clinical service lead, women's and children's

Project manager

  • Asia Rashed

Paediatric clinical trials

  • Mandy Wan – lead research pharmacist
  • ChingMan Lum – highly specialist pharmacist, clinical trials and dermatology
  • Fahmo Yusuf – highly specialist pharmacist, clinical trials
  • Malgorzata Tylek – senior paediatric pharmacy technician, clinical trials

Highly specialist pharmacists

  • Ellie Johnson – paediatric pain and surgery
  • Faye Chappell – paediatric formulary
  • Hannah Pontefract – paediatric patient services
  • Henal Gandhi – paediatric cardiology
  • Kim Chan – paediatric cardiorespiratrory and intensive care
  • Jennifer Hatch – paediatric intensive care
  • Mary Healy – paediatric cardiorespiratrory and intensive care 
  • Meera Patel – paediatric sickle cell
  • Melissa Figueira – paediatric endocrine
  • Patrick To – neonates
  • Sarah-Jane Smyth – paediatric neurology
  • Sheatha Abumehdi – medicines value and paediatric formulary interface
  • Simran Uppal – women's services
  • Sorcha McCann – paediatric infectious diseases
  • Sukhpreet Singh – paediatric gastroenterology
  • Courtney Preston – paediatric gastroenterology
  • Soni Bhatt – paediatric rheumatology
  • Stephen McInerney – paediatric nutrition
  • Trinh Huynh – paediatric metabolic

Specialist paediatric pharmacists           

  • Annabelle Swaby
  • Kieran Keerthisingham
  • Olive Aigbonkonkon
  • Priyanka Kundalia
  • Raphael Leung
  • Rubanah Rubaseyone
  • Sarah-Jane Smyth

Principal paediatric pharmacy technicians

  • Agnieszka Sadowska-Koszela
  • Nabeela Shahidullah
  • Kelly Irwin

Senior paediatric pharmacy technicians

  • Jessica Filice
  • Maninder Sahans – women's services
  • Nafisa Noor
  • Orla Moore
  • Priya Nair
  • Rebecca Chandramohan 

Paediatric pharmacy assistant

  • Rammiya  Sarveswaran