Network Alumni
The Network’s success is the result of many years of hard work and collaboration. Team members will come and go but their valuable input and expertise leave a legacy in the outcomes and growth of the Network that they leave behind. We recognise and give credit to all that they have contributed to the Network and wish to acknowledge them formally as alumni and certainly ‘friends’ of the Network.
Dr Mamta Vaidya
Clinical Director
About
Dr Mamta Vaidya is the North Thames Paediatric Network’s Clinical Director and has been the Clinical Director since the Network’s start in 2019. Until 2023 that leadership position was shared with Dr Hermione Lyall. Dr Mamta Vaidya is a paediatrician and the Group Medical Director for Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust. Mamta still works as a Paediatric Intensivist at the Royal London Hospital where she was previously Deputy Medical Director of the Royal London. She has a clinical interest in integrated care as a way of improving life chances for children and families.
Dr Hermione Lyall
Clinical Director
About
Hermione is a Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Professor of Practice at Imperial College. She run’s both HIV and Congenital infection clinics at St Mary’s Hospital in London and is the ward-attending consultant for Paediatric Infectious Diseases 4 months per year. Dr Lyall is a member of PENTA-ID and participate in HIV treatment trials for children. Dr Lyall has been actively involved in development of international courses for education for Paediatric Infections for many years, working with PENTA and the European Society for paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID).
Dr Lyall was Clinical Director of Children’s Services at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for 10 years, until 2018, so has a lot of experience of the day-to-day issues common to running a busy inner city children’s service. In 2019, Mamta Vaidya and Hermione Lyall became Co-Clinical Directors of the North Thames Paediatric Network, supported by NHS England, to optimise clinical pathways for children who need hospital care. The pandemic added a greater impetus to our working together, and through great collaborative working helped us to continue to innovate and improve our models of care. Hermione’s input has been immense and whilst we are incredibly sad at her departure from the Network in 2023, wish her all the best for future endeavours. Hermione is a true credit to the Network’s success and reputation as an exemplar paediatric network.
Geraldine Munn-Mace
Lead Nurse
About
Dr Charlotte Briar
Co-Clinical Lead for Risk & Governance
About
Charlie Briar has been a paediatric cardiac intensive care consultant at the Royal Brompton Hospital since 2017, where she is also the PICU lead for quality and safety. She has a long-held interest in risk/governance since her fellowship training in Boston Children’s Hospital where she worked on standardisation of care and checklists. Charlie is passionate about equity of access and patient/family experience.
Dr Lucy Hepburn
Clinical Director for One Heart CHD Network
About
Dr Lucy Hepburn has been clinical director of the One Heart CHD Network since 2020. She is passionate about networking to put patients and families at the centre of the care offered – making the lifetime journey with CHD as successful and manageable as possible.
Lucy trained in Anaesthesia in London and has been a specialist paediatric cardiac anaesthetic consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) since 2011, where she led the team prior to taking up this role. The network, just like anaesthesia – makes the patient the priority at all times, advocating for the best care possible, and ensuring seamless care from team to team, or between institutions.
Lucy contributes to several education programmes for the hospital and beyond, supporting the teams looking after children with CHD when presenting for anaesthesia, and running wider education events across the network. She is also current secretary for the Congenital Cardiac Anaesthesia Network (CCAN).
When not at work, Lucy is a mother of two, a cheerleader for their sporting activities, a very amateur footballer, keen gardener and tortoise-keeper.
Dr Priya Kumar
Co-Clinical Lead
About
Dr Priya Kumar has been a paediatric consultant with a specialist interest in diabetes in children and young adults since 2010.
Priya is the clinical lead for paediatric and adolescent diabetes, clinical lead for adolescent mental health and one of the named doctors for safeguarding children in London North West Healthcare Trust.
She is an advocate for patient-centred collaborative care with multidisciplinary acute and community health providers.
Priya is passionate about healthcare management and has assumed leadership roles to facilitate change. She is currently one of the co-leads of the Transition network for the North Thames Paediatric Network.
In parallel with her clinical and management responsibilities, Priya is a University honorary clinical senior lecturer, Theory Exam lead, and a senior clinical examiner for the RCPCH educating the next generation of Pediatricians to prioritise patient empowerment and holistic care.
Dr Terry Segal
Co-Clinical Lead
About
Dr Terry Segal has been a paediatric and adolescent consultant, with an interest in paediatric endocrinology at UCLH since 2007. She is clinical lead for adolescent specialties at UCLH, Co-Lead Pan London Post COVID service and co-leads Transition for UCLH and North Thames Paediatric Network.
She is passionate about improving young people’s health and joining up their care.
She was convenor of YPHSIG ( YP health special interest group) 2018-21. She is particularly interested in helping young people with complex problems such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, persistent physical symptoms, and emotional difficulties and really enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team. She has published papers including areas of adolescent communication, HEADDSS, obesity, pubertal delay, ME/CFS and Long COVID.
Dr Corinne Fisher
Co-Clinical Lead
About
Dr Corinne Fisher is a consultant and clinical lead of the adolescent and young adult rheumatology service at University College London Hospital (UCLH) and an honorary consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Corinne leads the rheumatology transition service and is passionate about improving developmentally appropriate healthcare for young people with rheumatic conditions. She is also co-convenor of the British Society of Rheumatology special interest group for paediatric, adolescent and young adult rheumatology.
Dr Sara McCartney
Co-Clinical Lead
About
Dr Sara McCartney is a consultant gastroenterologist. She is currently Divisional Clinical Director in GI Services at University College London Hospitals and North Central London Endoscopy lead. She has a subspecialty interest in managing complex ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. She is an accreditated bowel cancer screening colonoscopist in the National screening programme and is an examiner in colonoscopic accreditation. She was an MRC clinical training fellow and completed a PhD on inflammatory mechanisms in IBD at the University of London. Dr McCartney established and was previously chairman of the Adolescent and Young Person’s section at the British Society of Gastroenterology and a member of the BSG IBD committee. She has established and runs a large adolescent and young adult multidisciplinary IBD clinic at UCLH promoting optimal care for young patients and a joint IBD and pregnancy clinic with the obstetric team.She was a key member of the team producing guidelines for transition in GI disease, and a chief investigator in the TRANSIT study. She lectures widely on the management of adult and adolescent IBD and IBD in pregnancy. She is currently Training Programme Director for Gastroenterology in North Central and East London.
Aswini Joshi
Surgical Lead
Shalini Bhatia
Anaesthetic lead
