Dr Graham Shortland BM (Soton), DCH, FRCP, FRCPCH

Dr Graham Shortland qualified from the University of Southampton in 1983. He trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, then in Paediatrics, in a range of posts in Southampton, Cardiff and Bristol.

 

Graham has spent time in clinical research and academic medicine as Research Fellow with Professor Peter Fleming in Bristol, and as Lecturer with Professor D P Davies in Cardiff. He has had work published in the fields of paediatric nutrition, inherited metabolic disease and medical education.

 

He was appointed as Consultant Paediatrician in 1993, and has had a wide range of clinical responsibilities including general paediatrics, community paediatrics, paediatric intensive care, neonatology and his main interest of inherited metabolic disease (including a short period of locum Consultant duties at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London).

 

National and UK recognition includes six years as Chairman of his speciality interest group, the British Inherited Metabolic Disease Group, and more recently as Chairman of the MCADD Board, which has successfully implemented a new newborn bloodspot screening test for all newborn babies in England.

 

Graham has been Clinical Director for Child Health for four years (2003-2007), including the commissioning of the Children’s Hospital for Wales (Phase 1). Following this, he has held the posts of Associate Medical Director for Patient Safety and Clinical Governance (2007), and latterly Assistant Medical Director for Innovation and Improvement (2009) with the new UHB. He was part of a team that was successful in winning the 2009 and 2010 NHS Wales Awards for Patient Safety.

 

He has three teenage sons and keenly pursues dinghy sailing and yachting as a hobby and sporting activity.