UCL Institute of Child Health

UCL is pleased to announce that Professor Rosalind Smyth FMedSci, Professor of Paediatric Medicine, University of Liverpool, Executive Director Liverpool Health Partners and Director of NIHR Medicines for Children Research Network, has been appointed to the post of Director of the UCL Institute of Child Health in the Faculty of Population Health Sciences with effect from 1st October 2012.The Dean of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences, Professor Graham Hart FMedSci, said: “I am delighted that we have secured the services of Professor Smyth, one of the UK’s foremost paediatric researchers and leaders, for this important position. The Institute of Child Health has thrived under the direction of Professor Andrew Copp for the past ten years. Having completed his term of office, we now welcome Ros Smyth as Andy’s successor, and I look forward to working with her in the Faculty of Population Health Sciences.” Professor Smyth said: “I am sad to leave friends and colleagues in Liverpool where I’ve worked for over 20 years. Being given the opportunity to lead the UCL Institute of Child Health is a great honour, and I am looking forward to building on the success of the Institute as Europe’s leading centre for paediatric research and teaching. Child health is a priority, nationally and internationally, and ICH, with its close relationship with Great Ormond Street Hospital, is at the forefront of innovative developments in this important field.”

Four generations of a single family have been found to possess an abnormality within a specific brain region which appears to affect their ability to recall verbal material, a new study by researchers at the University of Bristol and University College London has found.

Alissa Goodman has been appointed as Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the UK Birth Cohort Study at UCL (University College London), a post which has been created jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and UCL. Professor Goodman’s appointment signals UCL’s strong strategic commitment to life course and longitudinal studies within the UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences headed by Professor Graham Hart. Professor Goodman will be based at the UCL Institute of Child Health.