Speakers
- Dr Katrina Cathie
- Dr Louisa Pollock
Date of Recording
March 13, 2026
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Speakers
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Dr Katrina Cathie
Consultant Paediatrician
Katrina is a consultant general paediatrician at University Hospital Southampton who has an active role in paediatric research. She is the Associate Director for Paediatrics of the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at UHS, principal investigator for a number of research studies and Co-chair of GAPRUKI, a national network for general paediatric research in the UK and Ireland. Katrina’s research focuses on common conditions affecting children and young people in the general paediatric setting and vaccines to prevent illness. Katrina has led multiple commercial and non-commercial NIHR portfolio studies, including a number of vaccine studies. She was awarded an MBE in 2021 for her services to paediatrics and the COVID-19 response. Katrina was one of the national leads for a large multicentre study (HARMONIE) of an RSV preventative treatment for babies, results published in The Lancet. She is co-lead for an NIHR HTA grant looking at IV treatments for acute severe asthma in children (EVITA) and co-applicant on 3 other NIHR HTA grants, bronchiolitis in babies (BACHb), reflux treatment in babies (OTTER) and steroids in neonatal meningitis (BOBBi). She is co-lead for the NIHR supported incubator in general paediatrics.
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Dr Louisa Pollock
Consultant Paediatrician
Louisa Pollock trained in General Paediatrics but with detours into Global Child Health and Infectious Diseases. She had no formal research time as a trainee but gained enough research experience over time to secure a Wellcome Clinical PhD fellowship post CCT. She now works as a Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, but remains a strong advocate for General Paediatric research. She is an NRS Senior Research Fellow and Senior Clinical Lecturer at the MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, with a research interest in childhood viral infections. She is Co-Chair of GAPRUKI (General and Adolescent Paediatric Research Collaborative UK and Ireland) which aims to build capacity in general paediatric research.
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