Child Health

Dr Louisa Pollock is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in General Paediatrics & Paediatric Infectious Diseases. 

She has a research interest in viral infections in children. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD fellowship in 2013 and completed her doctoral project in rotavirus vaccine responses in Malawian infants in 2018.

Louisa was awarded both an NRS Career Researcher Fellowship, and an MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnership fellowship in 2022.  Her MRC funded project will work in collaboration with Dr Antonia Ho at the MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research to address the question of whether maternal immunity to SARS-CoV-2, through natural infection or immunisation, protects infants against SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first year of life.

Louisa works with the NHS GG&C Vaccine Group, most recently as co-PI of the NextCOVE vaccine trial.  She is also working in collaboration with Dr Olivia Swann, University of Edinburgh, in studying the long-term impact of Covid-19 in children through analysis of routinely collected healthcare data (the SLICK study). She also contributed to the ISARIC study of clinical characterisation of Covid-19, and the RECOVERY trial for treatment of acute Covid-19 and PIMS-TS.

Louisa is involved in collaboration with colleagues in Public Health Scotland to provide clinical data to contribute to investigations of infectious disease clusters, including investigation of Non A-E Hepatitis in children in 2022, and the recent rise in invasive Group A Streptococcus in 2022/23.

Dr Conor Doherty is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology. His main current research interest is in HIV and viral hepatitis, with a focus on treatment trials. Recent projects include treatment trials in Hepatitis C, and the RECOVERY trial for treatment of acute Covid-19 and PIMS-TS in children.

Dr Rosie Hague is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology. Her main current research interest is in primary immunodeficiency, contributing to clinical and molecular characterisation studies of newly identified conditions. Rosie was PI in recent treatment and follow up trials in Hepatitis C, and contributed to the RECOVERY trial for treatment of acute Covid-19 and PIMS-TS in children.

Dr Katherine Longbottom is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in General Paediatrics & Paediatric Infectious Diseases. She has a particular interest in congenital and neonatal infection and contributes to a national viral sequencing study of congenital CMV.

Katherine is currently looking at the presentation and management of infants with SARS-CoV-2 infection. She is also collaborating in local epidemiological and clincial characterisation studies of invasive Group A Streptococcus.

Katherine was co-investigator for a study looking at recovery of basic functional immune responses after the use of immunomodulatory therapy for PIMS-TS, and site PI for the international ‘Best available treatment study for inflammatory syndromes associated with SARS-CoV-2’ at both St Mary’s Hospital, London and the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow.