Meet the Team

Dr Chris Kidson has been a full time consultant in cardiac and general paediatric intensive care at the Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow for over 15 years, having previously worked in Newcastle upon Tyne, Birmingham and Toronto, Canada.

He has long standing sub-speciality interests in palliative care; organ donation (transplantation); medical ethics and law, and the healthcare decision-making process particularly concerning critically ill children with complex life-threatening morbidities and dependency upon invasive burdensome therapies.

In 2010 Dr Kidson graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Masters in Medical Ethics and Law. He has published; is a regular peer reviewer for several academic journals; runs an undergraduate ethics course and has presented extensively – mainly in the disciplines of paediatric critical care, palliative care, ethics and organ donation.

Dr Kidson always aims to challenge current standards and stimulate thought in his quest to push the boundaries and ensure that the right decision is made, at the right time, by the right people interpreting the right evidence. Nothing is more important than ‘proxy decision-making for the dying child’ and the provision of ‘family-integrated, personalised, deliverable’ end-of-life care.’

Shelley is the Programme Manager for PELiCaN, she started with the network in August 2019 as an Assistant Programme Manager and has previously been a Programme Support Officer (PSO) within the National Managed Diagnostic Networks. In her role she will support the Lead Clinician with driving key national commissioned areas of work aligned to the networks work plan and manage the core principles, which underpin the network.

She has an honours degree in Management and has many years’ experience working in the public sector having previously worked in education services for children with additional support needs. She is passionate about quality improvement and managing change and hopes that she can use these skills to drive the PELiCaN network forwards.

Chris joined NNMS in February 2020 from the Royal Hospital of Sick Children in Edinburgh where he worked as a Project Support Manager planning, managing and coordinating a diverse array of QI programmes for the service management and clinical teams.

Through work completed at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Chris was a finalist for NHS Lothian Employee of the Year and the Edinburgh Evening News Health Hero Award.