Dr Peter Dale has been Consultant Paediatrician and Gastroenterologist in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and The Wales Paediatric Gastroenterology Network since 1998. For the last 9 years he has been leading the Paediatric Lipid service in Wales and is one of the founding members of the National Paediatric Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Steering Group and registry. 

Peter originates from Whitley Bay, a coastal town, not far from the great footballing city of Newcastle. Following graduating from Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School and early training in Northumberland, he commenced paediatric training in Manchester and then moving over to Liverpool where he completed his Paediatric Gastroenterology training in Alder Hey Childrens Hospital.

Following his initial role as RCPCH Regional Advisor for Paediatrics in Wales, he was appointed as  Associate Dean and the Head of the Wales Paediatric Training School. In 2016 Dr Dale was appointed as Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health National Officer for Training and has recently completed his tenure in this senior College post. He has played lead roles in the development of the RCPCH Shape of Training and Progress Training curricula and many of the paediatric SPIN training modules. 

Throughout his career Peter has always been enthusiastic about paediatric training and supporting trainees not only in the UK but also has extensive experience of working in Ethiopia and Uganda.
He has been a MRCPCH examiner since his early consultant years and with consultant colleagues across Wales has supported several very successful MRCPCH courses.

He has published widely in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Familial Hypercholesterolaemia and Schwachman Diamond Syndrome. 

Professor White works for Swansea Bay University Health Board and Swansea University Medical School.  She trained in Paediatric Neurology at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver. 

She is currently a British Paediatric Neurology Association Council Member, part of the Development Group and Editorial Board of UK Paediatric Epilepsy Training Courses and of the Steering Committee for UK Paediatric Neurology Distance Learning Course.

Current research interests include epilepsy genetics, the use of big data sets in healthcare and Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension.

Josef trained in London, Wales and the Northwest of England before being appointed at Alder Hey. He has a specialist interest in the treatment of Hirschsprung’s disease, anorectal malformations, IBD and the surgical management of functional lower GI disorders.