Dr Ngozi Oluonye

Dr Ngozi Oluonye has been a Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2014. She has expertise in the management of children with complex neurodevelopmental conditions including, Autism, ADHD, Developmental and Intellectual disability with specialisms in functional visual impairment, assessment of the development of children with visual impairment and the diagnosis of children with autism within the context of visual impairment and complex disability. She works in the  Developmental Vision Clinic and the Developmental Communication service at Great Ormond Street Hospital, the latter  a service that addresses  the needs of children and young people with communication difficulties, within the context of physical disability, movement disorders and limited cognition, where the provision of alternative and augmentative communication is sought.She is a Clinical Supervisor, Trust Appraiser, was Transition Lead within her department, coordinates the International Fellows at Great Ormond Street Hospital and is convener of the monthly meetings the North Thames Neurodisability Network. She is the  Developmental Paediatrician at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and runs a weekly clinic for children with severe and profound visual impairment, supports  the Paediatric cataract, Medical retina and Ocular Genetics clinics and conducts a monthly Preschool Low Vision Clinic, with a Specialist Optometrist. Dr Oluonye is passionate about thinking about the child and young person within the context of their family and environment and strives to bring the multidisciplinary ethos into her assessments. She encourages early intervention in children with visual impairment, through close collaboration with early support practitioners, VI Teachers, schools and the wider therapy services. Dr Oluonye is a member of several professional bodies including the General Medical Council, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, has served as Trustee, Secretary and Executive board member for the Association for Research in Children and Infant Development She has served on the medical Advisory Committee for the Norrie Disease Foundation and as a guest editor for Therapeutic Advances in Ophthalmology. She is the RCPCH rep  on  the Paediatric Subcomittee of the the Royal College of Ophthalmology and has spoken at national and international conferences on developmental consequences of  rare genetic eye diseases. She has contributed to the content of a website on genetic eye disease(gene.vision) which serves as a resource for parents and professionals. She has worked with the Aniridia Network UK and Batten Disease Family Association. She has several publications and is co –author of chapters in the MacKeith publication on Childhood Visual Impairment.

Research interests include the neuro developmental phenotype of children with structural and inherited eye disease including children with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia and Septo-optic dysplasia, PAX6 Aniridia and other conditions that affect the anterior visual pathways. She was the Developmental Paediatrician in the ground breaking gene as the therapy for the handful of children with AIPL1 gene mutation who received gene therapy.