Professor Parviz Habibi

 Professional experience

• More than 40 years of experience
• Consultant paediatrician, The Portland Hospital, London
• Consultant paediatrician, Harley Street Private Practice, London
• Consultant paediatrician, The Harley Street Clinic, London
• Consultant paediatrician, New Malden Diagnostic Centre, Surrey
• Professor of practice in Paediatric Intensive Care and Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London (2006 - present)
• Director of Paediatric Intensive Care, St. Mary’s NHS Trust, London (1992 - 2002)
• Heart Lung Transplant Physician, Cardiothoracic Unit, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, (1991 - 1992)
• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (1986 - 1992)
• Heart Lung Transplant Physician, Cardiothoracic Unit, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, (1991 - 1992)
• Locum Consultant Intensivist, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street (1989 - 1991)

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 Sub-specialties

• Babies
• Childhood serious illnesses
• Children sleep disorders

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 Positions in public associations

• Secretary and Treasurer, then convenor of Intensive Care, Speciality Group of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (2000 - 2004) 
• Trustee and co-founder, Children Of St. Mary’s Intensive Care (COSMIC) ​(1994 - present) 
• Chairman of Division, Paediatrics, St Mary’s NHS Trust, London (1992 - 1998) 

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 Teaching posts

• ​Examiner for the Royal College Of Paediatrics and Child Health (Present)
• ​Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Intensive Care and Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College, London (1992 – 2006) 
• Undergraduate teacher, Imperial College School of Medicine (Present)

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 Education

• MB ChB, PhD University of Birmingham (1980)
• BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, University of Birmingham (1973) 

 Publications and conferences

• Marino LV, Pathan N, Meyer R, Wright VJ, Habibi P. An in vitro model to consider the effect of 2 mM glutamine and KNK437 on endotoxin-stimulated release of heat shock protein 70 and inflammatory mediators. Nutrition. 2016 Mar;32(3):375-83
• Marino LV, Pathan N, Meyer RW, Wright VJ, Habibi P. The effect of 2 mMol glutamine supplementation on HSP70 and TNF-α release by LPS stimulated blood from healthy children. Clin Nutr. 2015 Dec; 34(6):1195-201. doi:10.1016/j.clnu.2014.12.009
• Marino LV, Pathan N, Meyer R, Wright V, Habibi P. Glutamine depletion and heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) in children with meningococcal disease. Clin Nutr. 2014 Oct;33(5):915-21. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2013.09.013
• Umasunthar T, Leonardi-Bee J, Hodes M, Turner PJ, Gore C, Habibi P, Warner JO, Boyle RJ. Incidence of fatal food anaphylaxis in people with food allergy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Exp Allergy. 2013 Dec;43(12):1333-41. doi: 10.1111/cea.12211. PubMed PMID: 24118190
• Chowdhury MM, McKenzie SA, Pearson CC, Carr S, Pao C, Shah AR, Reus E, Eliahoo J, Gordon F, Bland H, Habibi P. Heliox therapy in bronchiolitis: phase III multicenter double-blind randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2013 Apr;131(4):661-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-1317
• Meyer R, Kulinskaya E, Briassoulis G, Taylor RM, Cooper M, Pathan N, Habibi P. The challenge of developing a new predictive formula to estimate energy requirements in ventilated critically ill children. Nutr Clin Pract. 2012 Oct;27(5):669-76
• Polymorphisms in PARP, IL1B, IL4, IL10, C1INH, DEFB1, and DEFA4 in meningococcal disease in three populations. Emonts M, Vermont CL, Houwing-Duistermaat JJ, Haralambous E, Gaast-de Jongh CE, Hazelzet JA, Faust SN, Betts H, Hermans PW, Levin M, de Groot R; St.Mary's-Imperial College and Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospitals Meningococcal Research Groups
• Collaborators: Nadel S, Booy R, Hibberd M, Habibi P, Galassini R, Pathan N, de Kleijn E, den Brinker M, Kornelisse R. Shock. 2010 Jul;34(1):17-22
• Meyer R, Harrison S, Sargent S, Ramnarayan P, Habibi P, Labadarios D. The impact of enteral feeding protocols on nutritional support in critically ill children. J Hum Nutr Diet. 2009 Oct;22(5):428-36
• Meyer R, Harrison S, Habibi P. Successful blind placement of nasojejunal tubes in the paediatric intensive care unit: the impact of training and audit on maintaining skill level. J Advanced Nurs 2007. In press

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 Prizes and awards

• Millennium Celebration of Achievement, Luncheon with HRH Queen Elizabeth II

 Professional membership

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine (2010 - present) 
• American Thoracic/European Respiratory Society (2006 -present) 
• Elected Member of Family Justice Council (London) (2005 - present)
• Fellow Royal College Of Paediatrics and Child Health (1998 - present) 
• Elected Fellow Royal College Of Physicians (1994 - present)
• European Society of Paediatric Intensive Care (1995- present)
• Trustee, Children Of St Mary’s Intensive Care (COSMIC) (1994- present)
• Paediatric Intensive Care Society, UK (1992- present)

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