Contacts

Addenbrooke's Lysosomal Disorders Unit

Adults | Children’s Metabolic Unit

Consultant medical staff

Dr P B Deegan

Dr P B Deegan MD, MRCPI, FRCPath

Service Director & Consultant Physician

Lysosomal Disorders Unit,

Box 135
Cambridge University Hospitals,

Hills Road,
Cambridge.

CB2 0QQ

Dr Deegan is a consultant physician in General Medicine and Metabolic Diseases. He graduated in Dublin, Ireland in 1988. His clinical postgraduate training began in diabetes and endocrinology, where he completed his MD research thesis on lipoprotein metabolism in diabetes. Dr Deegan gained consultant level accreditation in clinical biochemistry and developed an interest in inherited metabolic diseases. He joined the Lysosomal disorders team at Addenbrooke's in 2001 and became its clinical director in 2006. He is a member of the European advisory board of the ICGG Gaucher registry. His current research interests include biomarkers of Lysosomal storage disease and cellular targeting of enzyme replacement therapies

Contact via secretarial staff:

Sandra Holmes

Tel: 01223 274634

Fax: 01223 256172

sandra.holmes@addenbrookes.nhs.uk

Professor T M Cox

Professor T M Cox MD FRCP FMedSci

Research Director & Professor of Medicine

University Department of Medicine,

Box 157

Cambridge University Hospitals,

Hills Road,
Cambridge.

CB2 0QQ

Professor Cox is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cambridge with clinical responsibility for internal medicine and metabolic diseases at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He qualified in medicine in 1971 and has conducted scientific investigations principally on inborn errors of metabolism. Some of his recent research has focused on Lysosomal Storage disorders - their molecular pathogenesis and treatment. Professor Cox was the founder of the National Gaucher service at Addenbrooke's, later to become the Lysosomal disorders service. He continues to share clinical responsibilities with Dr Deegan and heads the department’s clinical and academic research. Professor Cox serves on the board of several journals and is an editor of the Oxford textbook of Medicine.

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Contact via secretarial staff:

Joan Grantham

Tel: 01223 336864

Fax: 01223 336846

jbg20@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Dr Paul Flynn

Consultant Physician
Tel: 01223 245151
paul.flynn@addenbrookes.nhs.uk

Contact via secretarial staff:

Violet Tandon

Tel: 01223 348342

violet.tandon@addenbrookes.nhs.uk

and

Sue Phillips

Tel: 01223 348153

susan.phillips@addenbrookes.nhs.uk

Dr Penny E Stein

Clinical Research Fellow

Tel: 01223 336868
pes1000@cam.ac.uk

Dr Nick Smith

Dr Nick Smith

Honorary Clinical Fellow

Dr Nick Smith is a Paediatric Neurologist from Sydney Children’s Hospital, Australia, working with Professor Cox’s Lysosomal Diseases Research Group. He has a specific interest in the neuropathology of Lysosomal Storage Disorders and the development of specific neurological therapies.

Contact via secretarial staff:

Joan Grantham

Tel: 01223 336864

Fax: 01223 336846

jbg20@medschl.cam.ac.uk

We all work closely with our colleagues in orthopaedics, cardiology, nephrology, neurology and radiology who have experience in the management of patients with lysosomal disorders. Further details can be provided upon request.

Nursing staff