Community Child Health Autumn
6th Nov - 7th Nov 2025
Community Child Health has been running for nearly 25 years and continues to offer the latest developments in a wide range of topics across the speciality. It is one of Genesis’s most popular meetings.
The conference will be taking place virtually this Autumn from 6 – 7 November 2025.
This conference is valuable to all doctors and medical professionals caring for children in the community setting. This 2-day course will help delegates to update their knowledge across a variety of topics relevant to Community Paediatrics. It combines clinically-focused, evidence-based updates with national guidance and strategy, as well as some personal perspectives, in order for community paediatricians to learn about the latest developments in community child health.
Registration fee:
£ 265 – Doctor/Consultant (2 days)
£ 235 – Specialty and Associate Specialist (SAS)/Trainee/nurse/AHP (2 days)
£ 136 – Doctor/Consultant (1 day)
£ 115 – Specialty and Associate Specialist (SAS)/Trainee/nurse/AHP (1 day)
Please find the complete programme below:
| THURSDAY 6 November | |
| Ms Theresa Renwick | The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its relevance for 16 and 17 year olds |
| Dr Jo Saul | Language development in autism |
| Prof Emily Jones | Mapping trajectories in developmental neurodiversity: prospective studies from infancy |
| Prof Helen Bedford | Child and Adolescent Vaccination: An Update |
| Dr Mary Salama, Dr Hannah Nicholson, Ms Gabriella Lake Walker | Children with medical complexity: Improvement through partnerships |
| Dr Stone Hsieh | Exercise as lifestyle strategy for ADHD – what does science tell us so far? |
| Dr Sarah Eisen | Respond, an integrated health system for people seeking asylum and refugees. |
| FRIDAY 7 November | |
| Dr Pooja Harijan | Newer treatments in epilepsy |
| Ms Anna Warburton | Explaining my role as Lived Experience Parent Worker in a CAMHS ND team |
| Dr Anna Sarkozy | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – Multisciplinary care and novel therapies |
| Dr Richard Brown | Advances in Epilepsy Genetics |
| Ms Maria Rodriguez Perez | Can extreme deprivation cause autism? |
| Dr Gabriel Whitlingum | ARFID – fear, disinterest and disgust |
| Ms Abigail Mance | Introducing the new publication – Autism in Complex Presentations – A Guide to Assessment and Diagnosis |
| Prof Helen Bedford | Professor of Children’s Health, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UCL |
| Dr Richard Brown | Consultant Paediatrician, Cambridge University Hospitals, UK |
| Dr Sarah Eisen | UCLH/Hospital for Tropical Diseases, UCL/LSHTM |
| Dr Pooja Harijan | Consultant Paediatric Neurologist Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge |
| Dr Stone Hsieh | Department of Psychology, Kingston University London |
| Prof Emily Jones | King’s College London & Birkbeck, University of London |
| Ms Gabriella Lake Walker | Director at Iris and independent researcher |
| Ms Abigail Mance | Speech and Language Therapist Neurodisability Service Great Ormond Street Hospital , London, UK |
| Dr Hannah Nicholson | Paediatric Neurodisability Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London |
| Dr Theresa Renwick | Head of Vulnerable Adults Whittington Hospital London |
| Ms Maria Rodriguez Perez | PhD Candidate on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research at King’s College London |
| Dr Mary Salama | Consultant Paediatrician, Medical lead for Children with Medical Complexities (CMiC) team Medical lead for Human Factors Chair of Colab |
| Dr Anna Sarkozy | Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital , London, UK |
| Dr Jo Saul | UCL, London |
| Ms Anna Warburton | Lived Experience Parent Worker in Islington CAMHS NDT, London |
| Dr Gabriel Whitlingum | Consultant Paediatrician in Neurodisability Evelina London Children’s Hospital |
Conference proceeds
Proceeds from all of our conferences support our research into problems with fertility, pregnancy and birth. Our scientists at the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology at Imperial College London continue to lead the world in this field of research. Many major findings at the site have contributed to the understanding of fertility and fetal development. This has improved in utero and newborn babies’ health.
Please see the Genesis Research Trust website for further information about us