# Event Details - **Event Name**: Otto Wolff Lecture and Catherine Peckham Symposium - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 04 Nov, 2025 at 01:30 pm – Tue, 04 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm - **Event Description**: Advancing Knowledge and Understanding of Childhood DisabilityAbout this EventTuesday 4th November 2025, 1:30pm – 5:00pm**In person event**Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child HealthPlease join us for the Population, Policy and Practice (PPP) Research and Teaching Department’s annual Otto Wolff Lecture and Catherine Peckham Symposium dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of childhood disability. This event brings together leading researchers, clinicians, and experts to share insights, foster collaboration, and celebrate progress in the field.Event OverviewThe UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOS ICH), together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), forms the largest concentration of children's health research in Europe. The Otto Wolff Lecture reflects this status by showcasing world-class clinical and scientific presentations. This event also recognises one of the great GOSH/ GOS ICH Clinical Professors of Paediatrics, Otto Wolff, who maintained an active interest in Paediatrics beyond retirement and attended many of the sessions until his death at the age of 90 in April 2010.13.30:Professor Jugnoo Rahi, Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Institute of Ophthalmology; Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation TrustThink Vision, Think ChildThe OWL will be followed by the Catherine Peckham Symposium, with a series of talks highlighting innovative work, ongoing studies, and emerging challenges in the field of childhood disability:Professor Melissa Gladstone, Professor of Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics and International Child Health (University of Liverpool)Identifying children with disabilities where resources are limited – what can we do?Professor Cally Tann, Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Child Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)Disabilities in children born preterm (title TBC)A showcase of emerging research from PPP researchers including Dr Rachel Knowles (on hearing loss), Julia Shumway (Down Syndrome) and Dr Pippa Rees (perinatal brain injury) .Panel discussion on future research directions.Drinks and canapes reception from 5-6pm.Who Should Attend?Researchers and academics in child health, disability, and developmentClinicians and allied health professionalsPolicy makers and advocates for children’s healthStudents and trainees interested in child health and disabilityEvent DetailsDate: Tuesday 4th November 2025Time: 1.30-5pmLocation: Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street WC1N 1EHThis event is free but requires advance registration. Spaces are limited, so we encourage early booking.SpeakersProfessor Jugnoo RahiProfessor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant OphthalmologistUniversity College LondonPopulation, Policy & Practice Research & Teaching DeptUCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Institute of Ophthalmology; Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation TrustProfessor Jugnoo Rahi is a clinician scientist with a track record for innovative discovery science and research translation to reduce the burden and impacts of the causes of blindness that afflict 81 million children worldwide and confer an enormous burden on affected individuals, their families and the societies in which they live. As the UK’s first Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology she has led the establishment and development of this scientific discipline; partly by founding the Vision and Eyes Group at UCL now an internationally leading multi-disciplinary and multi-professional group with an unusually broad scientific portfolio. The group’s research bridges ophthalmology, paediatrics, public health, and population health sciences. And it looks ‘both ways’: addressing both the causes and the consequences of rare and common eye diseases; alongside investigating the determinants of visual health and well-being and of visual disability. Highly cited, their research has shaped clinical care and policies internationally. Much of this research has been undertaken by establishing enduring collaborative clinical research networks that are unique to the UK and have enabled landmark studies whose findings have been implemented at pace. Jugnoo was the British Medical Association’s inaugural Women in Academic Medicine Role Model awardee, the recipient of the VISIONUK Astbury Award for career-long partnership with voluntary organisations, and the Claud Worth Medal, the UK’s highest recognition of achievement in Paediatric Ophthalmology. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (both as the first paediatric ophthalmologist and ophthalmic epidemiologist).Professor Melissa GladstoneProfessor in Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics and International Child HealthDepartment of Women and Children’s HealthInstitute of Life Course and Medical SciencesUniversity of LiverpoolAlder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation TrustProfessor Gladstone is a professor of neurodevelopmental paediatrics at the University of Liverpool and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital with over 20 years’ experience researching child neurodevelopment in resource poor environments – particularly in Africa. Her recent research aims to understand how best to measure neurodevelopment in resource limited settings as well as to utilise this to identify the early problems that children with disabilities and developmental disorders in order to support them. She has undertaken and is presently undertaking large field studies in a number of African settings looking at the effect of health and social factors on early child development (malaria in pregnancy, nutrition, prematurity, HIV exposure) but is also interested to pursue the linkages between assessment of children’s development and behaviour with interventions which can be provided in low income settings. Professor Gladstone has written over 90 publications and holds several large grants with colleagues in Sub-Saharan Africa. She created a neurodevelopmental assessment tool, the MDAT, which is being utilised in over 25 countries in Africa for research and programmatic work – much of this linking early interventions in nutrition, WASH and early stimulation programmes with later outcomes in children. She has been working with the World Health Organization on the Global Scales of Early Development (GSED) since 2014 and leads the work on the GSED Long Form and Individual Testing. Her future plans include incorporating better ways to conduct developmental surveillance at scale in resource-limited settings.Professor Cally TannProfessor of Neonatal Medicine and Child HealthDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International HealthFaculty of Epidemiology and Population HealthLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBio to follow - https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/tann.cally - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/otto-wolff-lecture-and-catherine-peckham-symposium/100001714447942949 - **Event Categories**: health-wellness, nonprofit, workshops, art, theatre, business - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health - **lat**: 51.523309 - **long**: -0.120066 - **full address**: UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Otto Wolff Lecture and Catherine Peckham Symposium - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/72bfa7bf69fa64f3a868c8ea5b16d3bec274598f648372bfa563305ed2e9c07b-rimg-w1090-h610-dcd8ecf3-gmir.jpg?v=1761984667 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Otto Wolff Lecture and Catherine Peckham Symposium being held? - **A:** Otto Wolff Lecture and Catherine Peckham Symposium takes place on Tue, 04 Nov, 2025 at 01:30 pm to Tue, 04 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Otto Wolff Lecture and Catherine Peckham Symposium? - **A:** Otto Wolff Lecture and Catherine Peckham Symposium is organized by UCL Division of Medicine - CABI. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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