Dr May Ng, Consultant Paediatrician & Paediatric Endocrinologist and Associate Medical Director at Southport & Ormskirk NHS Trust and current Officer for Research at RCPCH who has been awarded an OBE for services People with Diabetes and People with Autism and Disabilities.
Dr Fiona Campbell, Consultant Paediatrician, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and an Honorary Fellow of RCPCH, has also been awarded an OBE for her services to Children and Young People with Diabetes.
Professor Saul Faust, Professor Consultant of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, has been honoured with an OBE for services to the COVID-19 response.
Professor Kathryn Maitland, Professor of Tropical Paediatric Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, has been awarded an OBE for her services to medical science.
Camilla Kingdon, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) said:
My warmest congratulations to all those who have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours this year. It is particularly welcome to see so many paediatricians receive an honour for the outstanding contributions they have made to help children and young people including those with diabetes and autism. The honours received by Drs Ng and Campbell and Professors Faust and Maitland are all richly deserved.
I am delighted to see recognition for colleagues across the NHS and send my warmest regards to: Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer for England, who has been made a Dame; Sarah-Jane Marsh, CEO of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Trust and also chair of NHS England’s Children and Young People’s Transformation Programme, who has been awarded a CBE; and Professor Steve Powis, National Medical Director, NHS England and Dr Andrew Goddard, President, Royal College of Physicians who have been Knighted.”