Dr Delane Shingadia

Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Child Health, UCL

Delane is a Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, having worked in this field for over 20 years and in several different countries, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, USA and UK. During this time Dr Shingadia has developed expertise in the management of a variety of paediatric infectious diseases, particularly HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. He has contributed to the development of national TB guidelines as well as published extensively on the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB. His other research interests include infectious diseases epidemiology, travel medicine and infection in immunocompromised children. He has published extensively in the field of paediatric infectious diseases, including several book chapters. He has also been an editor for the Manual of Childhood Infections, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal and Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Diseases.