Speakers

Professor Paul Dimitri is Professor of Child Health and Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. 

With a clinical career spanning over two decades, he specialises in managing growth and puberty disorders, hormone deficiencies and excesses, and endocrine complications in childhood cancer survivors. He co-leads the Hypothalamic and Pituitary Tumour Service and the Paediatric Late Effects Endocrinology Service at Sheffield Children’s. 

Professor Dimitri is internationally recognised for his research into how childhood obesity affects bone health and skeletal development.  He also leads technology-driven innovation in child health: he is Director of Innovation and Child Health Technology at Sheffield Children’s, and Director of the NIHR Children & Young People MedTech Co-operative (CYP MedTech) — the UK’s first paediatric NIHR MedTech Co-operative. 

He leads the development of the National Centre for Child Health Technology in Sheffield and serves as Clinical Lead for the TITCH (Technology Innovation Transforming Child Health) Network.  Additionally, he is the NIHR National Children’s Specialty Lead and Vice President for Science and Research at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. 

His leadership spans clinical care, research, innovation and translational technology, driving collaboration across academia, the NHS, and industry to bring cutting-edge child health solutions into clinical practice.