Catherine Peckham

Catherine S. Peckham CBE,[1] MD, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCOG, FRCPCH, FFPHM, is a British paediatrician. Catherine Peckham was the first Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology in the UK, and established the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London.[2][3] The Peckham Lecture is given each year at the Institute of Child Health.[4]

Life

She was born in London, spent her early years in the US and she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School[5] and University College London. She is married to Sir Michael Peckham and is the daughter of Alexander King.

Medical career

As a clinical epidemiologist she is best known for her work on infections in pregnancy, particularly rubella, cytomegalovirus[6] and HIV, and their impact on the fetus and developing child. She showed that rubella damage caused by exposure to maternal infection during pregnancy could continue after birth.[7] She worked on the early rubella vaccine trials and was instrumental in setting up the National Congenital Rubella Surveillance Programme.[8][9]

In 1986 she founded the multi-centre European Collaborative Study (ECS) on HIV in mothers and children with Carlo Giaquinto.[10][11][12][13] She was instrumental in establishing the national surveillance of HIV infection in pregnancy and childhood.[14] Her study of vaccination for infectious diseases in childhood was published by Action Research as the Peckham Report in 1989.[15] In 1986 she co-founded the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit.[16] From 2005 to 2007 she chaired the Scientific Coordinating Group for the Government's Foresight Programme on the Future Challenge of infectious Diseases.[17]

She has been closely involved in national birth cohort studies[18] and the influence of biological, social and environmental factors in early life on later development has been a central theme in her work.[19]

Awards and honours

National and international positions

References

  1. ↑ "Prof Catherine Peckham, CBE Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Catherine Peckham, CBE Profile". Debretts.com. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "catherine-peckham". University College London. 14 October 2004. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  3. ↑ (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/research-ich/mrc-cech/about-us/history
  4. ↑ The Peckham Lecture http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/research-ich/mrc-cech/MRCCECH-news/peckham-lecture-2011
  5. ↑ "St Paul's Girls' | London – Inner (London postal codes)". Guide to independent schools. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  6. ↑ "Cytomegalovirus Infection in Pregnancy: Preliminary Findings From A Prospective Study". The Lancet. 321: 1352–1355. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(83)92138-4. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  7. ↑ Catherine S. Peckham (1 August 1972). "Clinical and Laboratory Study of Children Exposed in utero to Maternal Rubella – Peckham 47 (254): 571". Archives of Disease in Childhood. doi:10.1136/adc.47.254.571. PMC 1648297. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  8. ↑ "Surveillance of congenital rubella in Great Britain, 1971–96". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.318.7186.769. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  9. ↑ "NSHPC Home Page". University College London. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  10. ↑ "CV Dr. Carlo Giaquinto". Medkeik.info. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  11. ↑ Original TextThe European Collaborative Study 1. "Mother-To-Child Transmission of Hiv Infection". The Lancet. 332: 1039–1043. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(88)90063-3. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  12. ↑ "Mother-to-Child Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus". New England Journal of Medicine. 333: 298–303. doi:10.1056/NEJM199508033330507.
  13. ↑ "HIV: European Collaborative Study on HIV-infected pregnant women and their children". University College London. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  14. ↑ "Antenatal Testing For Human Immunodeficiency Virus". The Lancet. 334: 1442–1444. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(89)92045-X. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  15. ↑ The Peckham Report
  16. ↑ http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/bpsu
  17. ↑ Foresight. Infectious Diseases: preparing for the future. Executive Summary.Office of Science and Innovation, London, 2006. http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/bispartners/foresight/docs/infectious-diseases/e1_id_executive_summary.pdf
  18. ↑ Peckham, CS (24 May 2012). "A national study of child development (NCDS 1958 cohort). Preliminary findings in a national sample of 11-year-old children". Proc. R. Soc. Med. 66: 701–3. PMC 1645076. PMID 4741414.
  19. ↑ "Understanding science: 12: Human Reproduction: Selecting for Life: Scientific Basis and Policy Implications". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  20. ↑ "Board Members". ViiV Healthcare. Archived from the original on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  21. ↑ Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Lords, Westminster. "Lords Hansard text for 6 Nov 200606 Nov 2006 (pt 0002)". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  22. ↑ http://www.pistes.fr/transcriptasesud/6_113.htm
  23. ↑ "Research in developing countries – About the Working Party | Nuffield Council on Bioethics". Nuffieldbioethics.org. Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  24. ↑ "Medical Research Council – Document library". Mrc.ac.uk. 18 November 2004. Archived from the original on 4 January 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  25. ↑ "Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality in England, Scotland and Wales | Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists". Rcog.org.uk. 25 June 2010. Archived from the original on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.