Paediatric Infectious Disease and Immunology

We provide a tertiary paediatric infectious disease and immunology service, based in the University Department of Paediatrics, for the Thames Valley area, Northamptonshire and parts of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

The service provided includes:

• regional paediatric infectious diseases
  
• regional paediatric immunology and primary immunodeficiency service
  
• regional paediatric HIV service
  
• joint microbiology/paediatric infectious disease clinical consultation service
  
• vaccine clinic
  
• immunisation advice line for clinicians:
  
• VACCSline: 0845 279 9878
  
• Email: vaccs.line@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk

The department includes the Oxford Vaccine Group, which carries out clinical trials for evaluation of new and improved vaccines.

Staff

• Professor Andrew J Pollard
  Honorary Consultant, Group Head
  Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity
  Oxford University, Children's Hospital
• Dr Shelley Segal
  Consultant in Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Disease
  Children's Hospital
• Dr Dominic Kelly
  Consultant in Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Disease and Biomedical Research Centre Consultant in Vaccinology
  Children's Hospital
• Dr Thomas Williams
  Honorary Consultant
  Children's Hospital
• Dr Matthew Snape
  Consultant in Paediatrics and Biomedical Research Centre Consultant in Vaccinology
  Children's Hospital

Find us and contact us

The paediatric infectious disease service is based in the Children's Hospital, on the John Radcliffe Hospital site.

Initial contact with this service should be made via your GP.

The Oxford Vaccine Group is based at the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine at the Churchill Hospital.