Biography
Nick graduated in 1982 from the University of Manchester. He undertook MRC and Wellcome Fellowships in Cambridge, and spent two years at the Shriners Hospital for Children and McGill University in Montreal, Canada, learning how to be a bone specialist. He heads the Academic Unit of Child Health in Sheffield, and established the metabolic bone service at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, now the largest of its kind in Western Europe. He has made contributions in the fields of rear bone diseases such as osteogenesis imperfecta and hypophosphatasia, as well as in metabolic bone disease of prematurity and secondary osteoporosis.
As President of the Academic Paediatric Association, he initiated the Academic Toolkit, supported through EATC4Children. He heads the bone and training themes of the EATC4Children.
Expertise in support of the EATC4Children
- Specialised knowledge in the area of paediatric bone disease; connection into the European Reference network for rare bone diseases (BOND) as leader of Working Group 4 (Clinical Trials)
- Experience of experimental medicine studies in paediatric bone disease, both investigator and pharma-led
- Patient advocacy in his role as a Trustee of the Brittle Bone Society
- Academic Toolkit initiative
- Connections to other stakeholders eg industry, EMA.
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