Suellen Walker MBBS, MMed, MSc, PhD, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA, FFPMRCA

Dr Walker is the Research Lead for Pain in the Respiratory, Critical Care and Anaesthesia section at the UCL Institute of Child Health. Her laboratory studies evaluate age-related changes in pain response, the long-term effects of early pain and injury, and the developmental pharmacodynamics of analgesic drugs. She collaborates with scientists at UCL, University of California San Diego and University of Toronto.

She also has a clinical Sensory Testing Laboratory (within the Lung Function Unit) at the Walrus Clinical Investigation Unit at GOSH, and is involved in multi-disciplinary studies with other pain clinicians and researchers at GOSH that evaluate acute and chronic pain in children.

Dr Walker is the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists, Great Britain and Ireland (APAGBI), represents the APAGBI on the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia Scientific Council, and is the Local Educational Supervisor for Advanced Pain Training at GOSH.