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Helen Cross (physician)

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Judith Helen Cross OBE (born 1961) is a British physician who is the Prince of Wales's Chair of Childhood Epilepsy and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Neurology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.[1] She is also director of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London and a trustee of Young Epilepsy, in Lingfield.

Cross has published on seizure, neuropsychological and behavioural outcomes in children who have undergone surgical resection for treatment of their epilepsy. Her research has focused on improving outcomes for children with early onset epilepsy. Cross' early research was into improving imaging techniques to determine areas of likely seizure onset in children with drug resistant focal epilepsy and has developed an epilepsy surgery programme based on her research.

Cross conducted the first randomized controlled trial of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of children with drug resistant focal epilepsy[citation needed] and is endeavouring to conduct the same in the very young and adults. Recognising there was little in the way of control data with regard to neurodevelopmental progress, she initiated the North London Epilepsy in Infancy study,[citation needed] where a cohort of children was recruited at diagnosis in the first two years of life, and has been followed to at least three years. Cross planned to conduct a similar study over a wider geographical area, also examining phenotypes and genotypes.

In 2015, Cross received an Order Of The British Empire for her services to childhood epilepsy.[2]

Early career

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Cross graduated with honours with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Birmingham Medical School in 1984. She did her paediatric training in Birmingham and joined Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1990.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ Gawne, Jackie. "Professor Helen Cross OBE | Trustees | Who we are | About Us". Young Epilepsy. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  2. ^ Cavalier, Yvonne. "Helen Cross celebrates OBE | News | News and Events". Young Epilepsy. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  3. ^ Thorn, Sheila (1 February 2014). "Helen Cross: jack of all trades (and master of most)". The Lancet Neurology. 13 (2): 138. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(14)70007-9. ISSN 1474-4422. PMID 24457187. S2CID 7315124.
  4. ^ "World's largest study on babies with brain injuries starts in India | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  5. ^ "NHS England approves the use of two cannabis-based drugs". European Pharmaceutical Review. Retrieved 2 March 2020.