PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

House Surgeon, University College Hospital, London.       

House Physician, Barnet General Hospital, Hertfordshire.

Senior House Officer (SHO) (Accident & Emergency), Whittington Hospital, London.

SHO (General Paediatrics and Neonatology), Edgware General Hospital (EGH), Middlesex.

SHO (Paediatric Endocrinology and Oncology), The

Middlesex Hospital, London.                              

SHO (Neonatology), University College Hospital, London. 

SHO (Paediatric Cardiology, Intensive Care and

Pulmonology), Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung

Hospital, London.     

SHO (Paediatric Metabolic Diseases and Gastroenterology), Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London.

Clinical Research Fellow (Paediatric Metabolic Diseases),

Institute of Child Health (ICH), London.                        

Registrar (General Paediatrics and Neonatology), EGH.   

Part-time Clinical Research Fellow (Paediatric Metabolic Diseases), ICH, London.

Registrar (Paediatric Endocrinology and Oncology), The Middlesex Hospital, London.

Clinical Research Fellow (Paediatric Endocrinology), The Middlesex Hospital, London.

Senior Registrar/Clinical Lecturer (Paediatric Endocrinology and General Paediatrics).  Joint appointment between The Middlesex Hospital and Edgware General Hospital.

Senior Registrar/Clinical Lecturer (Paediatric Endocrinology and General Paediatrics), University College London Hospitals, London.

Part-time locum Consultant Paediatrician, Wellhouse Trust (Edgware and Barnet General Hospitals).

Senior Registrar (Paediatric Endocrinology), GOSH.

Visting Fellow (Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes), Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

•   Extensively trained in General and Neonatal Paediatrics at SHO, Registrar and Senior Registrar level. Practising Consultant in these areas since January 1999.

•   Extensively trained in clinical Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at all levels.  Practising Consultant in these sub-specialities since January 1999. 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

•   Trained, as a full-time Research Fellow, in basic and clinical Paediatric Endocrinology.   Worked largely on the investigation of the physiology of Growth Hormone Releasing Peptides (GHRPs).

•   Awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the University of London following the approval of my thesis “Growth Hormone Releasing Peptides: Physiological Studies in Man”.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

•   During my training years, lectured regularly on topics in General Paediatrics and Paediatric Endocrinology to undergraduate students as well as juniors doctors I worked with.  Provided undergraduate as well postgraduate clinical teaching for many years, and continue to do so.

•   Invited to lecture on numerous occasions on topics of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes during my Research Fellowship years, my Clinical Lecturer years and as a Consultant.

ADMINISTRATIVE and MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

•   Throughout my training I was actively involved in the organisation of audit meetings and projects, junior doctors' teaching programmes, hospital grand rounds, medical students' assessments, perinatal mortality meetings, directorate meetings and junior doctors' rotas.

•   Attended in-house management courses organised by UCLMS and GOSH. Attended numerous management training courses as part of my CPD at Northwick Park Hospital (NPH)

•   UK representative for Trainees in Paediatric Endocrinology 1996-1998

•   Team Leader for the redeveloping of paediatric in-patient facilities at NPH (£3M project).

•   Lead Clinician for negotiating the provision of paediatric services for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, a tertiary referral unit for complex orthopaedic surgery.

•   Vice Chairman/Training Advisor, Endocrinology CSAC (October 2000 – date).

•   Chairman, Paediatric Sub-Committee of the Portland Hospital (Jan 05 – date)

•   Member of the Programme Advisory Panel of MAP, a UK based charity (April 04 – date)

PUBLICATIONS 

Chapters

Massoud AF, Hindmarsh PC, Brook CGD (1997) Disorders of Stature.  In: Grossman (ed) Clinical Endocrinology.  Blackwell Science, Oxford.  2nd edition.

Massoud AF, Sidwell RU (2000) Endocrinology, Growth and Puberty.  In: Thomson and Sidwell (ed) Concise Paediatrics.  Greenwich Medical Media, London.  1^st edition. 

Massoud AF, Sidwell RU (In Press) Endocrinology, Growth and Puberty.  In: Thomson and Sidwell (ed) Concise Paediatrics.  Greenwich Medical Media, London.  2nd edition. 2004

Papers

Massoud AF, Leonard JV (1993)  Cardiomyopathy in propionic acidaemia.  Eur J Pediatr 152:441-445.

Clayton PT, Bowron A, Mills KA, Massoud AF, Casteels M, Milla PJ (1993)  Phytosterolemia in children with parenteral nutrition-associated cholestatic liver disease.  Gastroenterology 105:1806-1813.

Heales SJR, Thompson GN, Massoud AF, Rahman S, Halliday D, Leonard JV (1994)  Production and disposal of medium-chain fatty acids in children with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.  J Inherit Metab Dis 17:74-80.

Massoud AF, Hindmarsh PC, Brook CGD (1995)  Hexarelin induced growth hormone release is influenced by exogenous growth hormone.  Clin Endocrinol 43: 617-621.

Massoud AF, PC Hindmarsh PC, Matthews DR, Brook CGD (1996)  The effect of repeated administration of hexarelin, a growth hormone releasing peptide, and growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) on growth hormone (GH) responsivity.  Clin Endocrinol 44:555-562.

Rumsby G, Massoud AF, Avey C, Brook CGD (1996)  Non-expression of a common mutation in the 21-hydroxylase gene: implications for prenatal diagnosis and carrier testing.  J Med Genet 33:798-799.

Massoud AF, Hindmarsh PC, Brook CGD (1996)  Hexarelin-induced growth hormone, cortisol, prolactin release: a dose-response study.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab 81:4338-4341.

Massoud AF, Powell M, Williams RA, Hindmarsh PC, Brook CGD (1997) Transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumours.   Arch Dis Child 76:398-404.

Massoud AF, Hindmarsh PC, Brook CGD (1997)  Interaction of the growth hormone releasing peptide hexarelin with somatostatin.  Clin Endocrinol 47:537-547.

Raza J, Massoud AF, Hindmarsh PC, Robinson ICAF, Brook CGD (1997)  Direct effects of corticotrophin-releasing hormone on stimulated growth hormone secretion.   Clin Endocrinol 48, 217-222.