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Digital Growth Charts Team Members

Project Board

The project board is responsible for the clinical, academic, and governance oversight of the project. During the development of the dGC products, regular Project Board meetings enabled the Project Board to maintain an overview of progress, to comment on the development work, and to feed back about the clinical usability of the system.

  • Prof Helen Bedford, Professor of Children's Health, Population, Policy & Practice Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London.
  • Dr Simon Chapman, Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology, King's College Hospital, London.
  • Prof Tim Cole, Professor of Medical Statistics, Population, Policy & Practice Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London.
  • Prof Mary Fewtrell, Professor of Paediatric Nutrition, Population, Policy & Practice Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London.
  • Victoria Jackson, Project Coordinator, Institute of Health Visiting.
  • Dr Liz Marder, Consultant Paediatrician in Community Child Health and Neurodisability, Nottingham Children's Hospital.
  • Prof Charlotte Wright, Professor of Community Child Health (Medicine), University of Glasgow.

RCPCH Staff

RCPCH internal project staff provided invaluable support from project concept, through initiation and planning, and all the way to pilots and full live deployment. Critical project functions provided by the RCPCH team included project management, commercial modelling and planning, financial governance, design and branding review, web publishing and arranging and chairing meetings.

  • Jo Ball, Design and Brand Manager, Content and Brand Team, RCPCH.
  • Richard Burley, Chief Digital Officer, RCPCH.
  • Alex Brown, Head of Commercial and Corporate Partnerships, RCPCH.
  • Susan Hansford, , Digital Product Manager, RCPCH.
  • Joanne Hatton, Enterprise Systems Manager, RCPCH.
  • Jonathan Miall, Director of Membership and Development, (now ret'd from RCPCH).
  • Rachel McKeown, Policy Lead & Project Manager, RCPCH (now left RCPCH).
  • Kirsten Olson, Website Content Manager, Content and Brand Team, RCPCH.
  • Vicki Osmond, Health Policy Assistant, RCPCH.
  • Andrew Palmer, Head of Information Systems, RCPCH (now left RCPCH).
  • Adele Picken, Data Protection Officer, RCPCH
  • Olly Rice, Infrastructure and Operations Manager, RCPCH.
  • Magdalena Umerska, Digital Product Manager, RCPCH (now left RCPCH).

Development Team

The development team was drawn from RCPCH internal staff, RCPCH members with software development skills, and external specialists. As a multidisciplinary development team, the various duties of software development, quality assurance, testing, deployment, and maintenance were apportioned amongst the team according to experience and skill-set.

  • Dr Marcus Baw, General Hacktitioner, Developer and Informatician, Yorkshire and The Internet.
  • Dr Anchit Chandran, Doctor and Software Developer, London.
  • Dr Simon Chapman, Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology, King's College Hospital, London.
  • Prof Tim Cole, Professor of Medical Statistics, Population, Policy & Practice Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London.
  • Danny Cowen, Medical Student, Imperial College London.
  • Dr Charles van Lennep, Paediatrician in Training, London.