Kirkham, Professor Fenella

FRCPCH

Speciality

Paediatric Neurology

Sub-speciality

Paediatric epilepsy, Stroke and cerebrovascular disease, coma, status epilepticus

Training and Education

Medical school: Girton College, Cambridge & King's College Hospital, London
Paediatric training: Northwick Park, Brompton, John Radcliffe, Oxford & Guys
Adult Neurology: National hospital, Queen Square
Paediatric Neurology: Guy’s hospital

Experience

Professor Kirkham has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since December 1999. 

Consultant/senior lecturer in Paediatric Neurology, Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL Institute of Child Health 1990-1999

Professor of Paediatric Neurology, UCL Institute of Child Health from 2006

Honorary Professor of Paediatric Neurology, University of Southampton 2008-

Key achievements

Development of services for children with epilepsy in Wessex
Development of screening for stroke risk in sickle cell disease in the UK
Phase I randomised controlled trial of auto-adjusting continuous positive airways pressure in sickle cell anaemia
Collaboration with UK, North American and European paediatric neurologists, haematologists and respiratory physicians: guidelines and research

Key awards and prizes

Ronnie MacKeith prize, British Paediatric Neurology Association 1988
Vera Down award, British Medical Association 1996
Faculty of 1000 Medicine 2005-
Prizes for presentations and posters awarded to colleagues and supervisees

 

Research

Research in childhood stroke, coma, epilepsy and sickle cell disease including observational studies and randomised controlled trials

4 MD and 2 PhD students completed

Ganesan V, Kirkham FJ. Stroke and cerebrovascular disease in childhood. ICNA series of monographs in Child Neurology, MacKeith Press 2009; pp 350 approximately; in press.