About INoPSU
Administration of the Network
INoPSU Secretariat
The INoPSU secretariat consists of a convenor, co-convenor and liaison
officer. These posts following consultation with the individual link
person for each national surveillance unit make decisions on the direction
and development of INoPSU.
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Professor Rudi Von Kries
INoPSU Convenor
I am currently head of department “Paediatric Epidemiology” at
the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich and have recently been
appointed to the National Vaccination Advisory Board.
I trained as a paediatrician in Dusseldorf before later concentrating
on paediatric epidemiology. I set up the German Paediatric Surveillance
Unit in 1994 and took over as convenor of INoPSU in 2004. My main
research interests are infections disease epidemiology, vaccine
effectiveness, prevention, programme assessment, screening for
metabolic disease and obesity in children. |
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Dr Robert Pereira
INoPSU Co-Convenor
For 2 days a week I work out of the institute of applied research-prevention
and health in Leiden . Here we do research in the field of ADHD
diagnosis in our region, with heel-prick diagnosis in the Netherlands
for hemoglobinopathies, with breastfeeding, and with long term
follow up of children born after pain relief of their mothers with
morphinomimetics. It is also from here where the Dutch Paediatric
Surveillance Unit is sited
I also work 2½ days as a general paediatrician in a general
hospital in Rotterdam.
For the finally ½ day adult addiction policlinic and I
work in where I see drug addicts with ADHD and addiction. |
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Richard Lynn
INoPSU Liaison Officer
I currently work at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child
Health as scientific coordinator to the British Paediatric Surveillance
Unit. I also hold an honorary research fellowship in the Centre
for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Institute
of Child Health (London). My current research interests are in
the epidemiology of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and Reye syndrome.
I am currently working on a project investigating the epidemiology
of early onset eating disorders in younger children.
I have acted as coordinator and liaison officer for INoPSU since
its inception in1998, acting as the link between the national units. |
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