Background Concern exists that patients born with oesophageal atresia (OA) may be at high
risk for Barrett's oesophagus (BO), a known malignant precursor to the development of …

Among non-human mammals, exposure to androgens during critical periods of development
leads to gynephilia (attraction to females), whereas the absence or low levels of prenatal …

Genetic disruption of the vomeronasal organ (VNO), an organ responsible for pheromone
processing, drastically alters socio-sexual behavior in mice. However, it is not known …

Aims The optimal management for boys under 3 months of age with an indirect inguinal
hernia (IIH) and ipsilateral palpable undescended testis (IPUDT) is unknown. We aimed to …

Objectives We conducted a health economic sub-study within a feasibility RCT comparing a
non-operative treatment pathway as an alternative to appendicectomy for the treatment of …

Background Gastrostomy insertion is one of the most frequently performed procedures by
specialist paediatric surgeons. We aimed to determine practice across the United Kingdom …

Langerhans cells (LCs) are a unique population of phagocytes programmed within
embryonic skin to maintain tissue and immunological homeostasis at the epidermal barrier …

Aim of Study: Non-operative treatment of acute uncomplicated appendicitis (UA) in children
might be equally effective to surgery but requires accurate discrimination from those with …

Elective paediatric surgery essentially stopped during the initial COVID-19 lockdown,
resulting in significant treatment delays. As of December 2020, 210 000 children were …

My thesis exhibition is comprised of approximately eleven large-scale portrait paintings
done primarily in oil paint on canvas. This body of work investigates the ways the identity of …