Dr Abigail Whitehouse, MBChB, PhD, MRCPCH, PgCert in Clinical Education
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Children's Environmental Health and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
Centre: Genomics and Child Health
Email: a.whitehouse@qmul.ac.uk
Profile
Dr Whitehouse is a clinical academic respiratory children’s doctor working in East London. She completed her PhD on the immune cell impacts of air pollution exposure on healthy children. She works at Queen Mary University of London within the Centre for Genomics and Child Health and clinically at the Royal London Hospital. Her current research activities include setting up the new Children’s Environmental Health service at the Royal London and innovative trial work in both pre-school wheeze and asthma interventions in primary and secondary care. She supervises PhD, MSc and undergraduate students with research and clinical activities. Her clinical work encompasses all paediatric lung conditions with a focus on asthma and wheeze. Abigail also works with a variety of community, charity and young persons groups on air pollution health effects, and optimising asthma care in socially deprived settings.