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Royal honours for GOSH staff

16 Jun 2015, 1:43 p.m.

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Two staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.Professor Helen Cross, The Prince of Wales’s Chair of Childhood Epilepsy, has received an OBE for her services to children with epilepsy. Professor Cross is also Deputy Head of Developmental Neurosciences Programme at the UCL Institute of Child Health and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Neurology at GOSH and Young Epilepsy, Lingfield

Professor Cross said: “Huge progress has been made in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy over the past 20 years. This has required national and international collaboration, as well as constant translation to clinical practice.  This award is a great honour, and which I dedicate to all the children with epilepsy with whom I have had contact over the years, who continue to teach us so much more and for whom we strive for better outcomes."

GOSH Clinical Nurse Specialist Nikki Bennett-Rees received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to nursing. Nikki is currently part of the bone marrow team and has been at the hospital for over 30 years.

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