RCPCH Grand Round: Neonatal Bacterial Meningitis – Forty Years of Research and Practice, and What Comes Next | with Professor Ifeanyichukwu Okike

Join Professor Ifeanyichukwu Okike as he takes us through four decades of UK research and practice on neonatal bacterial meningitis, discusses diagnostic challenges, antibiotic stewardship, and the urgent need for innovation—from rapid diagnostics to the upcoming Bobby trial on steroids

Speakers

  • Professor Ifeanyichukwu Okike

Date of Recording

December 5, 2025

Available Until

December 4, 2026

BOBBi study details

The Bobbi trial team welcome expressions of interest from your site to participate. If you are interested, please complete the Site Feasibility Questionnaire by following the link below and the team will be in touch:

https://surveys.npeu.ox.ac.uk/index.php/332179?lang=en

Please email bobbi@npeu.ox.ac.uk with any questions you might have, or let us know if there is someone else that we should contact about this.

Best wishes,

BOBBi study team

www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/bobbi

Email: bobbi@npeu.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/bobbi
Trial Coordination Centre: NPEU Clinical Trials Unit
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit
Nuffield Department of Population Health
University of Oxford
Old Road Campus
Oxford OX3 7LF
Chief Investigators: Professor Paul Heath

City St George’s, University of London

Professor Chris Gale

Imperial College London

Co-Lead (UK): Dr Ifeanyichukwu Okike

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Co-Lead (Canada): Professor Manish Sadarangani

University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Sponsor: City St George’s, University of London
Funders: NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme (Ref. NIHR166133)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (Ref. PJT-203801)

Useful resources

Further educational resources

Bacterial Meningitis & Meningococcal Septicaemia

This RCPCH Paediatric and Child Health Essentials: Bacterial Meningitis and Meningococcal Septicaemia eLearning module has been designed to primarily revise essential knowledge and understanding of the disease and gives learners the opportunity to access key components of the How to Manage course.

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Speakers

  • Professor Ifeanyichukwu Okike

    Consultant Paediatrician

    Professor Okike is a Consultant Paediatrician at Derby Children’s Hospital where he is also the lead for the undergraduate paediatric education for Nottingham University, Derby Campus. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Medical Advisory Group for Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF). During his specialist training in paediatrics he worked as a Clinical Research Fellow at St George’s, University of London and was supervised by Prof Paul T Heath. He coordinated the Meningitis Research Foundation-funded 'Bacterial meningitis in infants < 90 days of age: burden of disease and assessment of healthcare delivery' study (neoMen). Both studies have been collaboration with the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU) and Public Health England (PHE) and has defined the current epidemiology and outcome of bacterial meningitis in UK and Irish young infants. His current focus is on education materials for parents and healthcare workers aiming towards better outcome for bacterial meningitis in young infants.

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