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Our Paediatric Genomic Community of Practice (CoP) is one of several CoPs we are currently supporting. See below for further details, including future meetings and how to join.

Lead Clinician

Gemma Chandratillake, Education and Training Lead, NHS East Genomics

Gemma Chandratillake
Gemma Chandratillake

Who is this CoP for?

  • Paediatricians
  • Neonatologists
  • Midwives
About this Community of Practice

Our original Community of Practice (CoP), the East Paediatric Genomic CoP has been running since March 2021.

This CoP spans all areas of Paediatric medicine, and aims to support a broad spectrum of healthcare staff involved in the care and treatment of newborns, children and young adults across cancers and rare and inherited conditions.

Examples of previous topics for sessions include:

  • Selecting the right test
  • Consent
  • Ethics in genomics
  • Unexpected Findings
  • Hearing Loss
  • Rapid Genomic Testing for Critically Ill Children
  • Whole Genome Sequencing
  • Development Disorders and Intellectual Development
  • Screening for treatable rare genetic conditions
  • Prenatal testing
  • When genetic testing reveals undisclosed biological relationships
  • Drawing Family Histories
  • Predictive vs Diagnostic Testing
  • Inheritance of Genetic Conditions
  • Monogenetic Diabetes
  • Childhood and TYA cancer
  • NICU/PICU R14 Rapid testing project
  • Managing Incidental Findings
  • Obtaining parental samples for WGS

Meeting schedule

Our Paediatric Genomics Community of Practice takes place on the FOURTH Thursday of every month, from 12.30pm - 1.30pm.

Paediatric Forum February 2025 Imprinting Disorders
Upcoming session

Non-urgent advice: Join this Community of Practice

To join this - or any of our Genomic Communities of Practice - please register (or update) your details via our form here.

Please ensure to select the Community of Practice that you wish to join.

Resources from previous meetings

You can access slides and recordings of all Paediatric CoP meetings on our FutureNHS workspace.

If you haven't already, you can request access to this platform by following this link (opens in a new tab).