Professor Paul Dimitri BSc, MBChB, FRCPCH, PhD

Honorary Professor of Child Health, Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Director of Research and Innovation at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. NIHR National Specialty Lead for Children and Young People and Vice President for Science and Research, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

The relationship between fat and bone in children and novel child health technologies

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Email: paul.dimitri@sheffield.ac.uk or paul.dimitri@nhs.net 

Paul studied Medicine at the University of St Andrew’s where he received a medal in pathology and the University of Manchester where he received a distinction in Paediatrics. He moved to Sheffield in 1998 where he trained in Paediatrics and Paediatric Endocrinology. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD in Medicine for his work on the relationship of fat and bone in children and received his Fellowship for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Paul currently works as an Honorary Professor of Child Health, Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Director of Research and Innovation at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He is also the Vice President for Science and Research at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) National Specialty Lead for Children and Young People, and the Director for the NIHR Children and Young People MedTech Cooperative, established to accelerate the development and adoption of health technology for children and young people. Paul has led on work on the relationship between fat and bone in skeletal development focusing on the impact of obesity on bone mass, structure and strength during skeletal development, and the relationships between adipokines and markers of bone turnover. He has also recently published on the impact of type 1 diabetes on skeletal architecture and strength in children. His work on MRI imaging of bone was based upon developing an accurate radiation free method of cortical and trabecular bone imaging and bone marrow analysis which is applicable to clinical diagnostics and the longitudinal study of skeletal growth and development in children. More recently Paul’s work has focussed on virtual reality development for upper and lower limb rehabilitation and Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy, and technology to support transition from paediatric to adult services

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