Skip to content
left end
left end
right end

Paediatric Endocrinology

Appointments: Outpatients Coordinator 0117 342 7956

The service

The Paediatric Endocrinology Service provides expert care to children and young people in outpatient clinics and during hospital stays and day cases at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. We provide specialised endocrine management input to other subspecialty departments to work together to care for children with complex conditions. We provide a network of regular clinics throughout the Southwest region.

Our expert care in complex and rare endocrine conditions is recognised internationally through our membership as a Healthcare Provide in each of the European Reference Network for Endocrinology and the European Reference Network for Rare Bone Disease.

The conditions

We have expertise in the full range of endocrine problems occurring in children and young people, such as:

  • Growth or puberty problems
  • Turner syndrome
  • Prader Willi syndrome
  • Disorders of pituitary, adrenal, thyroid and parathyroid glands and hypoglycaemia
  • Metabolic bone and calcium disorders such as rare forms of rickets, XLH and Hypophosphatasia

Many conditions are dealt with in our main endocrine clinics. We also have sub-specialty clinics such as Transition clinics with Adult Endocrinology and Adolescent Gynaecology, Late Effects clinics, Endocrine -Rheumatology Clinics, Endocrine-Renal Clinics, Skeletal Dysplasia clinics. For diabetes, obesity and osteogenesis imperfecta please see the additional tabs above.

The team

Our multidisciplinary team brings a range of skills to Endocinology care

Consultant doctors

Dr Elizabeth Crowne

Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist and Diabetologist

Secretary: 0117 342  0165

Dr Sumana Chatterjee

Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist and Diabetologist

Secretary: 0117 342 0588

Dr Manju Chandwani

Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist and Diabetologist

Secretary:  0117 342 0203

Dr Toby Candler 

Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist and Diabetologist

Secretary:  0117 342 0588

Dr Dinesh Giri 

Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist and Diabetologist

Secretary: 0117 342 0183

 Professor Julian Shield

Professor of Diabetes & Metabolic Endocrinology

Secretary:   0117 342 9336

Endocrine nurse specialists

Nicky Nicoll

0117 342 1568

Becky Broadbent

0117 342 1567

Ian Tucker

0117 342 1566

Ruth Popham

0117 342 0189

Appointment line

Outpatients coordinator 

0117 342 7956

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ERN BOND On Both OI And Endo Pages