CURRICULUM VITAE
DR MARTIN H. BELLMAN. MD., FRCP., FRCPH., DCH.,
PRESENT APPOINTMENT
Consultant Paediatrician, Camden Child Health Service,
Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust, London
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Department of Paediatrics, University College London
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Child Health London.
SPECIALIST ACCREDIATION (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS,
LONDON)
General paediatrics
Paediatric neurology
RELEVANT PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
1974
Paediatric Registrar, Westminster Children’s
Hospital.
1976
Lecturer in Child Health, Middlesex Hospital
Medical School.
Honorary Senior Registrar - Middlesex &
Central Middlesex Hospitals.
1981 Neurology Registrar, Hospital For Sick Children
Great Ormond Street.
1983 Lecturer in Child Health, Joint Academic Department
Medical College of St Bartholomew’s Hospital &
The Royal London Medical College.
Honorary Senior Registrar, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for
Children, Hackney.
1984 Consultant community paediatrician, Bloomsbury Health Authority, London
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MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES:
Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of London
Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
British Medical Association (Chairman of the Hampstead Division)
British Association of Community Child Health
Royal Society of Medicine - Member of Council and President-elect, Section of
Paediatrics and Child Health.
British Paediatric Neurology Association
British Association of Community Doctors in Audiology
European Academy of Childhood Disability.
PUBLICATIONS:
Total of 58 publications.
Major publications
MD Thesis:
Serious acute neurological disease of children. A clinical and epidemiological
investigation with special reference to whooping cough disease and immunisation.
University of London. 1984.
Original Papers In Peer Reviewed Journals (27)
Bellman MH. Dick G. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Post-graduate Medical
Journal 1978; 54:587-590.
Bellman MH, Ross EM, Miller DL. Reye’s syndrome in children under three years
old. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1982; 57:259-263.
Bacon CJ, Bellman MH. Heatstroke as a possible cause of encephalopathy in infants.
British Medical Journal 1983; 287:328.
Bellman MH, Ross EM, Miller DL. Infantile spasms and pertussis immunisation.
Lancet 1983; I:670-673.
Bellman MH, Hall S. Aetiology of Reye’s Syndrome. Archives of Disease in
Childhood 1983; 58:670-673.
Bellman MH, Rawson NSB, Ross EM, Miller DL, Cameron S.A developmental
screening test based on the STYCAR sequences. Child Care Health & Development
1985; 11:309-323.
Rosenthal M, Bellman MH. Infantile spasms: A price for ignoring parental anxiety?
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Lancet 1991; 338:1532-1533.
Issa A, Bellman M, Wright A. Short-term benefits of grommet insertion in children.
Clinical Otolaryngology 1999; 24:19-23.
Bellman M, Pathan A, Sinclair. L. A girl who laughed and fell down. Lancet 2000;
355:2216
Bellman M.H. Developmental assessment – commentary. Advances in Psychiatric
Treatment 2001; 7:40-42
Book Chapters
Infantile spasms: In: Recent advances in epilepsy, eds. Meldrum B, Pedley, T.
Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone 1983: 113-138.
Normal development. In: Community paediatrics, eds. Harvey D, Miles M, Smythe
D. Oxford, Butterworths Heinemann, 1995.
Development and Disability. In: Paediatrics and child Health eds. Bellman M,
Kennedy, N. Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 2000:
Neurology. In: Paediatrics and Child Health, eds. Bellman M, Kennedy N. Edinburgh
Churchill Livingstone, 2000:
Genetics. In: The Normal Child, eds. Bellman M, Peile E, 2006
Embryology. In: The Normal Child, eds. Bellman M, Peile E, 2006
Books:
Bellman M H, Cash J. Schedule of growing skills in practice. Windsor, NFER –
Nelson, 1987
Bellman M H, Lingam S, Aukett A. Schedule of Growing Skills II. Windsor, NFERNelson, 1996
Bellman M, Kennedy N. Paediatrics and child health. Edinburgh, Churchill
Livingstone, 2000.
Bellman M, Peile E. The normal child. Edinburgh, Elsevier, 2006
Developmental Screening Kit:
Bellman M, Lingam S, Aukett A. Schedule of growing skills (second edition). NFER
Nelson. 1996.
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ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES:
Camden & Islington Community Health Services /PCT
Lead Consultant (Paediatrics) (1998-2003)
Chairman, Local Negotiating Committee (2004-2006)
Consultant member, Professional Executive Committee, Camden PCT (2003-2006)
Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital
Audit co-ordinator, Nuffield Hearing & Speech Centre (1995-2002)
Clinical Lead for Patient & User Involvement
Regional Community Child Health
Vice-Chair/Secretary, NE Thames Regional Consultant, Community Paediatricians’
Group (1998 – 1991)
Chairman, NE Thames Consultant Community
Paediatrician’s Group (1991 – 1993)
Regional Representative for NE Thames on
the Executive Committee of the British
Association for Community Child Health (1994 – 1999)
Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
Member, Examinations Committee
Senior examiner for the Diploma in Child Health
Secretary, DCH Examination Board (1997 – 2002)
Vice-Chairman, Question group for DCH (1997- 2001)
Member, MRCPCH Part I Board
Chairman, DCH Board (2003- )
Principal Regional Examiner, NE Thames (2001-2006)
Occasional external assessor on Advisory Appointment Committees for consultant
paediatricians
Various external roles
Independent review of complaint about paediatric service, 2001 and 2007
Appraisal of community paediatric consultants, 2002 -2007
Community paediatrician on Clinical Excellence Award committee, 2003-2007
Journal reviews
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Child: Care, Health and Development
CLINICAL WORK
My training led to accreditation (Royal College of Physicians) in general paediatrics
and paediatric neurology. My specialist field is chronic neurodisability and my area of
special interest is communication and learning disorders.
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Camden Primary Care Trust
Child Development Team
The CDT was reconfigured in 1998 so that the team led by myself in South Camden
merged with the team at the Royal Free Hospital which covered North Camden. There
are now three consultants on the Camden CDT and I am the lead Consultant.
Children aged 0-5 years with a wide range of disabilities and neurological disorders
are assessed and managed at Greenland Road Children’s Centre. Appropriate children
are investigated at University College London Hospital or the Royal Free Hospital.
Specialist School Health Service
Children aged 5-19 years are looked after under the remit of the Specialist School
Health Service. Many attend a special school but an increasing proportion are being
placed in a mainstream school with support. Whenever possible they are medically
assessed in school but some are best seen at the Children’s Centre where there are
specialist facilities.
The work of both the above services is multidisciplinary with paramedical health
services and interagency with social services, education and voluntary agencies in
both age groups there are increasing numbers of children referred with a “behavioural
paediatric” disorder such as autism, attention deficit disorder and learning difficulty.
They often present with complex problems which are difficult to manage. I am the
lead Consultant for South Camden.
Royal Free Hospital
I am consultant neurodevelopmental paediatrician in the Nuffield Hearing and Speech
Centre which is the Children’s Out-patient Department of the Royal National Throat,
Nose and Ear Hospital Division of the Royal Free Hospital.
The patients I see include deaf children referred by my colleagues in audiological
medicine and children with a range of communication disorders caused by language
and learning difficulties alone or in combination referred by consultants and GPs
throughout the U.K.
I also run clinics for specific learning difficulty (dyslexia) and co-ordination disorder
(dyspraxia) with colleagues in clinical psychology, speech and language therapy and
occupational therapy.
I am working with a consultant audiological physician to set up a service for children
with central auditory processing disorders (CAPD) which is a new field to manage
listening and learning problems.
Medico-Legal Work
I have undertaken medico-legal work since 1992. Most cases involve brain injury
from antenatal, perinatal or postnatal causes. My expertise covers chronic
neurological and developmental disorders including autism, communication
difficulties, learning problems and audiological disorders. I also give opinion on cases
involving immunisation, which was my major research interest.
I take approximately 12 cases per year.
I have appeared in Court three times.
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I represent the Plaintiff in approximately 80% of cases, Defendant 10% and Joint
instruction 10%.
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