Clinical Research Specialist

FARYAL ALDAESAA

MB BCh BAO CABP NeoCC MSc

Curriculum Vitae

November 2021

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name Dr Faryal ALDAESAA

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Sutton Court Road

Sutton SM1 4SY

Email **.*********@*****.***

Telephone 004***********

GMC Registration Number 7189730

Nationality British

QUALIFICATIONS AND AWARDS

Nov 2011 MSc in Health Care Ethics and Law (1st Class Honors)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)

National University of Ireland (NUI)

June 2008 MRCPI Membership of Royal College of Physician in Ireland

Jan 2008 NeoCC Saudi Specialty Certificate in Neonatal Critical Care

Saudi Commission for Health Specialties/KSA

Oct 2004 CABP Member of the Arab Medical Board in Pediatrics

Arab board council for Medical Specialization

Nov 1997 Doctor of Medicine MB BCh BAO

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland,

National University of Ireland (NUI)

PERSONAL SYNOPSIS AND ASPIRATIONS

I am a tertiary-trained senior neonatal fellow with a special interest in neurodevelopmental outcome of extreme premature infants, and a passion for teaching. Currently a senior neonatal clinical fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

I have previously been a senior neonatal fellow at Neonatal Transport Service (NTS) at The Royal London Hospital. I especially liked the aspects of retrieval and transfer and the simulation training and outreach education program for NTS. I have varied experience with two different transfer teams, NTS and Kent Surrey and Sussex Neonatal Transfer Service (KSS NTS).

Working as a senior neonatal registrar at George’s University Hospital, one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals where I was fortunate enough to organize a weekly perinatal morbidity and mortality meeting to identify any learning opportunities or preventable issues that can inform the improvement of the quality of clinical practice. I participated in discharge planning and social meetings with support of the community team for high risk infants which is helping me to to gain experience in the psychosocial demands of the field of neonatology.

Working at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital and St Mary’s Winnicott baby units was a fantastic opportunity to gain significant experience of non invasive approach of managing extreme preterm infants and early extubation, in addition to follow up infants who were involved in the research of brain development and neuroprotection.

I have extensive experience in the management of sick newborns of varying gestation, neonatal surgical and cardiac babies and additionally transport experience as part of the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Neonatal Transfer Service.

My experience of working as a senior neonatal clinical fellow in busy tertiary neonatal units at middle grade level in the UK, in addition to over six years of working experience in tertiary neonatal units overseas {Ireland, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain}, has greatly increased my background knowledge and clinical and logistic skills, and given me a valuable insight into the management of a busy tertiary neonatal unit and the functioning of the network as a whole. I have demonstrated my commitment to the team and its role within the network.

I have a comprehensive background of neurodevelopmental follow-up out patient clinics for extremely preterm infants at two years corrected age using The Bayley-III Assessment of Infant and Toddler Development at St George’s Hospital to determine the rates of developmental delay and disability and refer them to the appropriate care pathway.

I am very passionate about neonatal cardiography, I have acquired cardiology skills during my placement at St George’s Hospital. This has enhanced my ability to perform cot side neonatal targeted Echo of preterm and term infants to assess for PDA, PPHN and investigation of a cardiac murmur for infants in the postnatal ward.

My teaching experience is extensive. I am an enthusiastic teacher and possess the formal training skills required to deliver excellent multidisciplinary education and training. I am a provider on various resuscitation courses i.e. NLS, simulation courses and I would like to apply to be an instructor for the Generic Instructor Course (GIC). I was an OSCE examiner and a lecturer for undergraduates in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). I have designed and delivered simulation scenarios for junior trainees and would be keen to further develop this skill in the training of junior doctors and advanced neonatal nurse practitioners in delivering departmental and also inter-departmental simulation study days.

Organizing the weekly combined Perinatal-Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality meetings helped me to highlight any learning opportunities or preventable issues that we could improve the quality of clinical practice in both departments. Coming from a cultural background where the direction of a clinical care to a comfort palliative care is illegal. I was more overwhelmed by the ethical consideration of neonatal organ donation that was successfully done at St Georg’s Hospital. I am involved in looking at all neonatal unit deaths over the period of a year to see which deaths would have been potentially suitable for organ donation, and how that impacts on the provision of palliative care.

From an ethical point of view, I often find it difficult to balance between working on the side of the family in terms of their hopes for their child and have to be an advocate to the infant in his best interest. I have learned that compassion, patience and good communication skills are essential skills required to be an excellent neonatologist. These skills helped me to support parents and families facing difficult situations in the end-of-life decision-making process of extremely preterm infants.

CURRENT APPOINTMENT

Sept 2020- Present

Neonatal Clinical Fellow Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH)

Educational Supervisor: Dr Simon Hannam Email: *****.******@****.***.**

The GOSH NICU has been through an exciting transformational phase since early 2019. It is a Level IV neonatal unit with all pediatric subspecialities under one ceiling, including ECMO. I communicate with specialist teams within the hospital and attend multidisciplinary meetings, with intense exposure to a huge spectrum of rare neonatal medical cases.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

Sep 2019- Sep 2020 Neonatal Transfer Services NTS

Neonatal Specialist Registrar The Royal London Hospital Barts Health NHS Trust

Educational Supervisor: Dr Nandiran Ratnavel Email: ********.********@***.***

NTS teams undertake approximately 3000 transport and retrieval missions per year, moving some of the sickest patients in the country. This post allows me to work under the supervision of the neonatal service lead Dr Nandiran Ratnavel and medical staff. As a registrar on NTS, I have independently undertaken the transport of acutely unwell infants requiring emergency transport, including infants requiring time-critical surgical conditions and newborns with complex cardiac anomalies. As a multidisciplinary team, I plan, co-ordinate and undertake neonatal transfers ensuring that I deliver the optimum service to critically ill infants, non-critical infants and their families. As well as transferring critically ill infants I am responsible to safely move less critically unwell infants from neonatal units to the tertiary centers for MRI, scan or surgical intervention. I have offered advice to referring units, liaised with the Emergency Bed Service (EBS) and other NICU centres within network for cot location. I have liaised with other neonatal transfer teams to enable back transfers and aided in organisation and planning of long distance transfers within the UK.

Sep 2018- Sep 2019 Aberdeen Maternity Hospital

Neonatal Specialist Registrar

The Aberdeen Maternity Hospital is a stand-alone maternity serving neonatal services for the north east of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland isles. The unit also provides the regional neonatal surgical service for the north east of Scotland and the highlands. With a birth rate of around 6000 births per annum and approximately 900 admissions per annum. The Neonatal department has 10 ITU; 5 HDU and 21 SCBU cots. It currently provides care for babies of all gestations from 22 weeks.

Sep 2016- Sep 2018 St George’s University Hospital NHS Trust

Neonatal Specialist Registrar Blackshaw Road,Tooting, London,SW17 0QT

Educational Supervisor: Dr Sandeep Shetty Email: *******.******@*********.***.**

I, together with eight other neonatal registrars, share responsibility for providing senior clinical cover for the neonatal unit at St George’s Hospital, a Level 3 NICU with neonatal surgery, one of the three lead centres for South London. The unit has 12 intensive care, 13 high dependency and 18 special care cots, with 600 admissions and over 12,000 cot days annually. I have developed skills and experience in caring for infants with a wide variety of conditions supported by the extensive subspecialty teams at St George’s, including ENT, neurology and surgery. I organize a weekly perinatal morbidity and mortality meeting to identify any learning opportunities or preventable issues that can inform the improvement of the quality of clinical practice. I participate in discharge planning and social meetings with support of the community team for high risk infants which is helping me to to gain experience in the psychosocial demands of the field of neonatology.

06 Jan16 – 04 Sep16 Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust

Neonatal Specialist Registrar The Bays, South Wharf Road, London W2 1NY

Educational Supervisor: Dr Jayanta Banerjee Email:*******.********@********.***.**

Each year more than 850 babies are admitted to the two neonatal units at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital QCCH (level 3 unit with 35 ITU, HDU and SCBU cots) and St Mary’s Hospital (level 2 unit with 18 ITU, HDU and SCBU cots). QCCH is a leading advocate of minimally invasive care in preterm infants, with an aggressive approach to early extubation, early enteral nutrition and avoidance of invasive procedures. I was familiar with all modalities of medical neonatal care including High Frequency Oscillation, inhaled Nitric Oxide and Therapeutic Hypothermia. I refer infants with surgical complications to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and handover their care to the neonatal transport team and to the surgical team at C&W. My placement at St Mary’s Winnicot Neonatal Unit provided a comprehensive teaching program as I attended a weekly neuro-multidisciplinary meeting including Neonatologists, Perinatal Neuroradiologist and Neurophysiologists and fetal and neonatal research fellows discussing the focus of clinical research of brain development and neuroprotection. I accompanied infants requiring MRI scanning including MRI Spectroscopy which is built on the NNU.

01Jan 09-17April 11 Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC)

Chief Pediatric Resident Ministry of Health. Rd No 2904, Manama, Bahrain

Clinical Lead: Dr Mona Al Jufairi

NNU at SMC is the only level 3 neonatal unit in Bahrain, which offers the highest levels of intensive care capable of dealing with extreme preterm infants, newborns with congenital anomalies and surgical complications, those with neurological conditions, inborn errors of metabolism, and infants with HIE requiring therapeutic hypothermia, retinopathy of prematurity, and stabilization of infants with congenital cardiac disease until being transferred to international cardiology centers. It also receives critical neonates transferred from all the private hospitals in Bahrain. The unit includes 21 neonatal intensive care / high dependency cots and 12 special care cots situated along side the labor ward. A local SCBU is located at Jidhafs Maternity Hospital with 20 cots as a step down unit.

4 Feb 08–31Dec 08 The Rotunda Hospital,

Neonatal Senior Registrar Parnell Square, Dublin 1

Educational Supervisor: Professor Thomas Clarke

The Rotunda is one of the principal maternity teaching hospitals for Obstetrics and Gynecology and Neonatal medicine for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Founded in 1745 ‘Lying-in’ hospital is the oldest functioning maternity hospital in the world. The Rotunda Hospital has been in operation at the Parnell Square campus for 260 years, making the Rotunda Hospital the longest serving maternity hospital in the world. 8,600 infants deliver annually and around 1,300 infants are admitted to the neonatal unit every year and there are 40 neonatal cots, with 10 intensive care cots. With 8 clinical (1:3 on-call) shifts, my primary role was to stabile high-risk neonates and extreme low birth weight infants and manage emergency situations in labor and delivery and performed many prenatal consultations and skillful advanced procedures. This post gave me a great opportunity and challenge to managed complex neonatal transports of acutely ill ventilated infants with inhaled nitric oxide throughout the country (National Neonatal Transport Medicine Program). I enhanced my intensive care decision makings, ventilator care and inhaled nitric oxide use, cranial ultrasound skills during the training. I participated in the general, neurodevelopmental as well as multiple birth clinics which improved my outpatient management experience.

01 Jan 06 - 02 Feb 08 King Abdul-Aziz Medical City (KAMC-R)

Neonatal Clinical Fellow Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Clinical Supervisor: Dr Saif Al Saif

The NICU in KAMC-R is a sate of the art tertiary NNU care facility and treats all neonatal medical and surgical problems, including advanced therapy for cardiac and pulmonary diseases, such as cardiac surgery. It is the biggest referral unit in Saudi Arabia and has passed the requirements for accreditation under the (JCI) Joint Commission International standards with "excellent performance" on December 2006. KAMC-R is an international center for separating Siamese Twins (>40th separation surgery among 100 cases submitted and reviewed to the National Program for Separating Conjoined Twins). Some of them were admitted to the NNU pre-operatively for stabilization and preparation for the surgery. NNU is a 103 bedded unit with 40 Intensive Care, 28 Intermediate Care Nursery and 35 nursery cots.The NICU services provide the best technological evidenced, ventilator support inclusive of high frequency oscillatory and sensor medics ventilation, Nitric Oxide therapy and various modes of non invasive ventilation. I developed my skills in most of the neonatal procedures including intubation of extreme premature babies, insertion of chest drains, central line insertions UAC, UVC, PICC and others. I had experience in involving all on site peadiatric sub-specialties, Surgeons, Cardiologist, Infectious Disease, Hematologist, Endocrinologist, Pulmonologist, Neurologist, Neurosurgeons, Ophthalmologist, ENT, Nephrologist, Geneticist and Metabolic Disease and Anesthesiologist.

17 May 05 - 31 Dec 02 King Faisal Specialist Hospital Research Center

Clinical Neonatal Fellow Riyadh, KSA

Clinical Supervisor: Salih Al Alayan

The Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine service at KFSH&RC Centre provides state-of-the-art neonatal therapies and has a total of 30 NICU and step-down beds. Out of 1,800 deliveries per year, over 80% are classified as high risk. Admissions are over 500 infants per year. KFSH&RC is a center for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, cancer and genomic classifications in Saudi Arabia. All aspects of clinical care, including ECMO, iNO, all needed subspecialists, pediatric surgeons (general, CT, urologic, ENT, etc.) are available on site. As being the senior clinical fellow I got the opportunity to encounter a wide spectrum of diagnosis and complex malformations especially congenital heart disease, surgical congenital anomalies, and metabolic diseases in a culture of high consanguinity rate. The tertiary care nature of the patients dealt with in this section of maternal and fetal medicine provided interesting material to care for high-risk fetuses with a variety of fetal diseases and structural defects, especially labor room management. I was involved in the care of patients in the ambulatory care settings in specialized high-risk outpatient follow up clinics. I attended obstetrics high-risk clinics, fetal therapy clinics, combined perinatology/metabolic/genetics clinics, pre-conception counseling clinics and combined fetal echocardiography clinics.

01 Jan 03–31 May 05 Salmaniya Medical Complex, Ministry of Health

Pediatric Senior Resident Manama, Bahrain

Clinical Lead : Dr Fadhela Al Mahroos

As a senior pediatric resident I rotated through the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (8 weeks), Accident & Emergency Department (8 weeks) and different pediatrics subspecialty departments (4weeks each): Endocrinology, Metabolic diseases, Respiratory, Nephrology,

Hematology/Oncology, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Infectious Disease and Elective. I was the senior resident in the ward and I was responsible of managing new admissions, was in charge of the pediatric patients in the resuscitation room and I led the team during cardiac arrests. My main responsibilities were supervising pediatrics junior residents and family practice residents, and rotators with procedures and decision-making. This rotation helped me to gain significant autonomy to run a service and make independent decisions while providing leadership, organization, and education.

01 Jan 99–31 Dec 02 Salmaniya Medical Complex, Ministry of Health

Pediatric Junior Resident Manama, Bahrain

Clinical Lead: Dr A. Jabar Al Abbasi

The Salmaniya Medical Complex is a tertiary care pediatric hospital that serves a large multicultural population. The pediatric residency program is a 4-year program fully accredited by the The Arab Board of Health Specializations (http://www.arab-board.org). The first 2 years of my training I worked as a junior pediatric resident and was then promoted to a senior resident.

01 Jan 98–31 Dec 98 Salmaniya Medical Complex, Ministry of Health

Rotating Internship Manama, Bahrain

SMC is the main tertiary hospital in Bahrain with a bed capacity of 1,200 beds. The hospital receives an average of 900-1200 patients a day and employs more than 2,000 physicians, nurses and workers.I did my internship training there and it included a 6-months placement in medical departments and a 6-months placement in surgical departments.

Gaps in Employment 18 April 2011- 05 Jan16

Family circumstances

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE IN NEONATOLOGY AND PEADIATRICS

My clinical experience is drawn from my general paediatric training for four years and sub-specialty training in Neonatology for ten years, six years overseas and four years in tertiary neonatal surgical units in the UK. I have developed a broad range of clinical practice and management strategies available for critically ill neonates. My aptitude for practical procedures has been consistently noted and I am regarded as having excellent practical skills in both appraisals and multi-source feedback.

I am skilled in managing acute, common pediatric and neonatal emergencies both as part of team and as the team leader. I have been commended in appraisals for my calm approach, teamwork and communication skills in emergency situations. Additional experience in pediatric intensive care has given me a wider perspective towards neonatal intensive care. I am competent in transportation of sick newborns.

NEONATOLOGY SUBSPECIALTY SKILLS

Extreme Prematurity and Extreme Low Birth Weight Infants

I have substantial experience in the management of extremely premature neonates (from 23 weeks gestation) born at the margins of viability and often complicated by fetal growth restriction.

Neonatal Surgery/Neurosurgery

I have worked in three neonatal surgical units providing surgical care and have a broad experience of requirements and challenges during perioperative care. I have been involved with the resuscitation and pre and post operative care of infants with congenital and acquired surgical conditions including:

The management of infants with a wide range of chest and abdominal conditions including diaphragmatic hernias, omphalocole, gastroschisis, gastroschisistracheo-esophageal fistulas and necrotising enterocolitis.

The different ways of approaching the clinical dilemma of conjoined twins from moral and legal issues.

I have looked after multiple infants with neurosurgical problems including neural tube defects and insertion of ventriculo-peritoneal shunts for congenital and post haemorrhagic hydrocephalus.

Neonatal Neurology

I have worked in three cooling centres at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea, St Mary’s and St George’s Hospital. I am competent in cranial 2D ultrasound and cerebral Doppler flow measurement.

Neonatal Cardiology

I managed infants born with complex cardiac problems and liaised closely with the cardiology team as the lead neonatal liaison. In addition, my neonatal transport service experience has given me good insight into how to stabilize, transport and refer infants with complex congenital cardiac abnormalities to cardiac centers, i.e Royal Brompton Hospital and GOSH.

Neurodevelopment

I participate regularly in the neonatal neurodevelopment follow up outpatient clinics at St Georg’s and I am trained in Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (III) assessment scale.

End of Life Care

The modules I had covered in MSc in Healthcare Ethics and Law enhanced my capacity to steer the most moral path in dealing with end of life issues and palliative care. I am keeping up-to-date with changes in legislation in neonatal medicine. I have developed the skills necessary to manage these situations effectively. I have participated and understand the process involved in end of life care, including having difficult discussions with families about their infant’s care. I understand the bereavement process and have supported parents through this. I am working with Dr De Rooy to audit suitability of neonatal deaths for organ donation at St George’s Hospital.

NEONATAL TRANSPORT

United Kingdom: I worked with Surrey and Kent neonatal transport services (KSS) to gain experience in stabilization and transfer of critically ill neonates to specialized tertiary unit as well as repatriation of clinically stable infants to their local neonatal units. operates from the neonatal intensive care unit of St Peter’s Hospital NHS Trust at Chertsey. I have worked with the service for two years and during this time have had comprehensive training in neonatal transport medicine.

Ireland

This post gave me a great opportunity and challenge to managed complex neonatal transports of acutely ill ventilated infants with inhaled nitric oxide throughout the country (National Neonatal Transport Medicine Program).

Bahrain

I was trained in stabilizing and transferring critically ill infants/children from Bahrain to highly specialized centers in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, India, Ireland and the United Kingdom through aero plan with paramedics.

CHILD PROTECTION

I am trained in safeguarding at both level 2 and level 3, and competent in identifying, assessing and managing children at risk of harm and neglect. I have gained valuable experience of report writing and civil court witness experience following a child protection case I was involved with, April 2018.

TEACHING SKILLS

I enjoy teaching, both in formal settings and in the more informal clinical setting and receive regular positive feedback for my teaching. Being the most senior clinical fellow at SGH I am responsible to teach and supervise SHOs, registrar trainees and AANPs and guide them in labor ward resuscitation, NICU, HDU, SCBU and post natal ward. I have presented many sessions with neonatal interest in the department with excellent feed back from the consultants.

Simulation is my particular area of interest, as I feel teaching through real life scenarios in a safe and confidential environment is extremely effective. I am a certified trainer for simulation and have been actively involved in neonatal simulation training at St George’s Hospital neonatal unit.

I had been a regular contributor to the RCSI postgraduate teaching programs at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. During my placement as a neonatal chief pediatric resident in Bahrain, I was appointed as RCSI college tutor to teach RCSI undergraduate student (Pediatrics/ Neonatal).

PUBLICATIONS

Orf K, Henderson S, Al Daesaa F, Banerjee J. Neonatal transfusion in extremely preterm infants. British Journal of Hematology supplement, 176 (abstract).

Four-year Study of Transcleral Diode Panretinal Laser Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity in a Neonatal Unit-based Laser Service in the UK. Caroline Wilde, Donovan Duffy, Justin Richards, Eric Ezra, Faryal Aldaesaa, Mahiul MK Muqit.

Submitted to the journal Eye.

PRESENTATIONS

NATIONAL:

Neonatal transfusion in extremely preterm infants. Poster presentation at BSH conference, Brighton, April 2017.

Audit of Sibling Visitation Policies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the United Kingdom. Poster presentation at Baby Friendly Initiative’s Annual Conference 2017.

Audit of Sleep Oximetry Studies in Ex- Premature Infants with Neonatal Chronic Lung Disease. Dr Faryal Al Daesaa, Samuel Massias., Dr Sandeep Shetty, Dr Anay Kulkarni. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, St George’s University Hospital, Tooting, UK.

Submitted to EAPS 2018.

REGIONAL:

Audit Presentation: Blood Transfusion in Extremely Preterm Infants at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea hospital. GGKT June 2016.

Audit Presentation: Audit of Sibling Visitation Policies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the United Kingdom. Governance meeting at St George’s University Hospital, November 2017.

Audit Presentation: ROP Screening & Laser Treatment (St George’s Audit) 2004-2017. Governance meeting at St George’s University Hospital, December 2017.

Audit Presentation: Audit of Sleep Oximetry Studies in Ex- Premature Infants with Neonatal Chronic Lung Disease. Governance meeting at St George’s University Hospital, May 2018.

CLINICAL GOVERNANCE:

GUIDELINE

Guidelines of Sleep Oximetry Studies in Ex- Premature Infants with Neonatal Chronic Lung Disease in the NICU and in the Community: St George’s University Hospital

AUDITS

April 2017: Neonatal Blood Transfusion in Extremely Preterm Infants at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea hospital. Orf K, Henderson S, Al Daesaa F, Banerjee J. Queen Charlottes and Chelsea hospital.

I reviewed the compliance with local blood transfusion guidelines & documentation of transfusion and how to improved it at NNU. Neonates receiving higher dependency care were more likely to be transfused according to guidelines than those receiving lower dependency cares. Possible explanations for this include: 1) reduced awareness of local guidelines among junior staff. 2) the non-specific nature of clinical signs of anaemia in these neonates. Poster presentation: 57th Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Society for Haematology.

Nov 17: Audit of Sibling Visitation Policies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the United Kingdom. Faryal Al Daesaa, Nadir Chouwdhury, Rachel Folwell, Sara Griffiths, Nicola Hodges, Laura De Rooy. Neonatal Department, St George’s Hospital NHS Trust, UK.

Aims: 1) To determine the current sibling visitation policies and practices in NICUs across the United Kingdom. 2)To highlight anecdotal experiences of infectious, or adverse events, associated with sibling visitation. 3)To review current literature with a view to informing future policy recommendations. Data was obtained from 193 out of 194 NICUs in the UK (a response rate of 99.5%). Overall, 151 NICUs (78.2%) allow 24-hour visiting for siblings throughout the year. Of note 10 of these NICUs specified a minimum visiting age for siblings (ranging from 2 years to 16 years). Poster presentation at Baby Friendly Initiative’s Annual Conference 2017.

Dec 2017: ROP Screening & Laser Treatment (St George’s Audit) 2004-2017

With the opthalomologist we reviewed Transcleral Diode Panretinal Laser Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity in the Neonatal Unit over a 4 year period. Audit to ensure that the national RCOphth & RCPCH Screening standards are being met at St George’s Hospital. Conclusions: 1) Digital retinal camera for screening of retinopathy of prematurity RetCam. 2) Improve documentation in clinical records (Neonatal team & Opthalmology team ). 3) Assigning a specific nursing staff as not to miss any high risk infant eligible for the screening. Submitted to the journal Eye, the official journal for the RCOphth. I have presented this Audit at the local governance meeting at SGH (Dec 2017).

April 2018: Audit of Sleep Oximetry Studies in Ex- Premature Infants with Neonatal Chronic Lung Disease. Dr Faryal Al Daesaa, Samuel Massias., Dr Sandeep Shetty, Dr Anay Kulkarni. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, St George’s University Hospital, Tooting, UK.

I identified variations in methodology in conducting sleep oximetry studies and its potential effect on the study results, in infants with NCLD admitted to NICU as well as in community. In our center, we observed that if sleep pulse oximetry study is conducted on babies with NCLD for more than 12 hours, the study is more likely to be abnormal and more likely to have significant percentage of interference. Submitted for oral presentation/poster for the 7th Congress of the European Academy of Paediatric Societies (EAPS 2018). I have presented this Audit at the local governance meeting at SGH (May 2018).

CLABSI Risk Factors in the NICU: Potential for Prevention: A St George’s Study. Dr Al Daesaa, Dr Donovan Duffy. To be presented at the governance meeting at St George’s Hospital on 23/07/2017

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