Dr Ben Ko

Dr Ben Ko, Senior Consultant Paediatrician (Neurodisability and Child Development) brings over 20 years’ experience as an NHS Consultant. Graduating from Edinburgh University with Distinction in Paediatrics, he continued his training rotating through tertiary centres including Gt Ormond Street Hospital, London and Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. Ben was made Honorary Consultant to Gt Ormond Street prior to his current NHS appointment with Bart’s Health NHS Trust (Royal London Hospital). He has an extensive clinical portfolio in the field of neurodisability and child development, covering physical disabilities, learning difficulties, autism, ADHD, dyspraxia, special educational needs and the full range of developmental disorders. His approach is parent and child centred, so that parents and young people are able to make decisions and choices with the best possible opinion and options. He provides robust, evidence based developmental diagnosis, which many parents find invaluable in helping to choose intervention and secure support for their children. Ben has gained national recognition for his contribution to paediatrics. He was awarded a Department of Health National Level Clinical Excellence Award, which is bestowed to only the top 10% of UK Consultants. He has held numerous offices at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and was a member of the Royal College Council and Executive Committee. He was a Ministerial Advisor to the Department of Work and Pensions, and as such had contributed to central government policies for disabled children.

Child development, physical disabilities, learning difficulties, autism, ADHD, dyspraxia, special educational needs.