Dr Karen Horridge

Dr Karen Horridge
Disability Paediatrician, Sunderland, north-east England.
30+ years fulltime NHS experience, providing healthcare for disabled children and young people aged 0-19 years, including palliative care across settings; regular out-of-hours general paediatric consultant on call.

Training included paediatric neurology, adult palliative care, general practice, community and hospital paediatrics.
>50 peer-reviewed publications.

Chair, RCPCH Informatics for Quality Committee. Leading on harmonisation of paediatric terminologies, underpinned by SNOMED-CT codes, so that each and every need of all children and young people can be made visible.
Associate editor, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.
Co-director, Paediatric Disability Distance Learning Courses and Sheffield Hallam MSc.
Clinical lead, Disability Matters: www.disabilitymatters.org.uk
Previously chair, British Academy of Childhood Disability and RCPCH neurodisability training committee.
Clinical coordinator, NCEPOD Each and Every Need report 2018: http://www.ncepod.org.uk/2018cn.html
Clinical lead, Learning Disability Matters for Families: www.learningdisabilitymatters.org.uk