Dr Hudson is a Clinical Associate Professor at the GOS UCL Institute of Child Health, consultant paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital working within the departments of General and Adolescent Paediatrics and Mental Health; and is also Chief Officer for Mental Health Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Dr Hudson is section head at the Institute of Child Health for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Palliative Care and Paediatrics (CHAMPP : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/research/population-policy-and-practice-research-and-teaching-department/champp-child-and-adolescent) within the division of Population Policy and Practice.
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Dr Hudson’s research interests are in underweight and overweight, in particular longer term outcomes of both conditions in children and young people. Dr Hudson is also has a passion for improving the medical care of children and young people with eating disorders and has worked at a local, national and international level with this aim. Dr Hudson is currently the paediatrician on the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for eating disorders, and regularly teaches and trains paediatricians and mental health professionals across the UK to improve care for the physical health of mental health patients.