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Clinical Influencer, Cohort 2

Dr. Pramodh Vallabhaneni, Consultant General Paediatrician, Clinical Director, Children and Young People, Swansea Bay University Health Board

Pramodh Vallabhaneni is a clinician-educator currently working as a Consultant General Paediatrician in Swansea (2014-present) and Clinical Director for the Children and Young People division at Swansea Bay University Hospital. He was the Clinical Lead for General Paediatrics before taking on the role as Clinical Director. Current academic roles include Lead for Child Health Specialty Attachment and Pathways to Medicine Clinical Lead at Swansea University Medical School.

His past academic roles include Lead for Education and Innovation at HEIW School of Paediatrics (2019-21), Foundation Programme Director at Morriston Hospital (2018-22), and Local Programme Director (Paediatrics-2018-19). He was the Editor of the Welsh Paediatric Journal from 2021 to 2023.

Wales Deanery awarded him Best Paediatric Educational Supervisor in 2016. Swansea University Medical School awarded him the Rising Star Award in 2017 and Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award in 2021. His research interests include formative assessments in medical education and medication error prevention. Swansea Bay University Health Board recognised this work by awarding the Always Improving Award (2022) for preventing medication errors.

His professional interests include change management and clinical leadership.

An important piece of work that Pramodh has been involved with is POWTI – Paediatric Outpatient Waiting Time Initiative. As a result of this work in Swansea Bay University Health Board between November 2022 and November 2023 the overall number of paediatric waiting times halved (51%), falling from 1,331 to 647.

For more information:

https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-02/Worried-and-waiting-Wales-English.pdf