Meet the speakers

Professor Helen Storr is a Professor and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology at Queen Mary University London (QMUL) and Barts Health Trust, London. She leads an active programme of clinical and basic science research with key interests in the recognition, diagnosis, and management growth disorders and their molecular genetic basis.

Professor Gary Butler, specialises in growth, puberty and male reproductive disorders and transgender endocrinology. He is honorary Professor at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and former Consultant at University College London Hospital. He jointly redesigned the current UK growth charts. He received the 2020 ESPE Outstanding Clinician Award for his clinical and research contributions.

Professor Justin Davies is Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at the University of Southampton, UK. His research interests include growth and imprinting disorders (including Silver-Russell and Temple syndrome), secondary osteoporosis and care for children with differences of sex development. He Co-Chairs the British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Growth Disorders Special Interest Group, and is developing a standardised national approach to growth assessment and management of growth disorders.

Dr Reena Perchard is an Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Manchester and ST8 subspecialty trainee in Paediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology. Her research focuses on the developmental origins of health and disease, particularly how prenatal and early-life factors influence long-term health outcomes.

Dr Rebecca Moon is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Child Health at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, and a subspecialty trainee in paediatric endocrinology and diabetes at Southampton Children's Hospital.

Dr Jonathan Fenwick is a Senior Paediatric Speciality Trainee in the North West of England, undertaking training with a specialist focus on endocrinology & diabetes, with the imminent dream of soon completing training and becoming a fully-fledged tertiary paediatric endocrinologist.

Professor Jo Blair trained at Aberdeen University and qualified in 1991. She undertook her paediatric training in Aberdeen and the West of Scotland, before training in paediatric endocrinology in Glasgow and London, where she completed an MD in the Molecular Genetics of Short Stature.

Professor Peter Clayton is Emeritus Professor of Child Health and Paediatric Endocrinology at the University of Manchester. For 30 years he has been a clinical consultant at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and at the Christie (Cancer) Hospital.

Phil Murray