Dr Serena Braccio details
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Location:
- University College Hospital
GMC/GDC number:
7093795
Professional background
Dr Serena Braccio is a general paediatrician with an interest in paediatric allergy.
She graduated from the University of Bari (Italy) in 2009 and completed her paediatric training in London, working in general and subspeciality paediatric posts including neonatal and paediatric intensive care, allergy, infectious disease, and emergency medicine. She completed a MSc in Allergy at Imperial College London and has worked in infectious disease and vaccine research at St. George’s University, London and Public Health England (PHE). She has presented at national and international paediatric and allergy conferences.
Serena is an Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) and Neonatal Life Support (NLS) instructor. She works full time, is part of the attending and on call acute paediatric rota and runs general paediatric and paediatric allergy clinics.
Specialties
Research interests
- Paediatric allergy
- Paediatric infectious disease
Languages spoken
Italian
Publications
- Braccio S, Holmes E, Hughes T, et al. 1084 Patients’ experience of telemedicine in paediatric allergy. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2021;106:A220-A221
- Braccio S, Rutherford P, Watson M. 887 Innovative use of videoconference tool for parental education during COVID19. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2021;106:A149-A150.
- Verow R, Cotton R, Braccio S, et al. 526 Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a learning tool to shape Paediatric outpatient consultations. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2021;106:A32.
- Kent A, Beebeejaun K, Braccio S, The National Neonatal Audit Network, et al. Safety of meningococcal group B vaccination in hospitalised premature infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2019;104:F171-F175.
- Kadambari S, Braccio S, Ribeiro S, et al. Enterovirus and parechovirus meningitis in infants younger than 90 days old in the UK and Republic of Ireland: a British Paediatric Surveillance Unit study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2019;104:552-557
- Ferreras Antolín L, Kadambari S, Braccio S, the Parechovirus Surveillance Network, et al. Increased detection of human parechovirus infection in infants in England during 2016: epidemiology and clinical characteristics. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2018;103:1061-1066
- S Braccio, A Irwin, A Riordan, D Shingadia, D Kelly, S Bansal, M Ramsay, S Ladhani. Acute Infectious Hepatitis in Hospitalised Children: A BPSU study. Archives of Disease in Childhood Published Online First: 04 April 2017. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-311916
- Braccio S, Kapetanstrataki M, Sharland M, Ladhani S. Intensive Care Admissions for Children with Enterovirus and Human Parechovirus Infections in the United Kingdom and The Republic of Ireland, 2010-14. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2017 Mar;36(3):339342. PMID: 27977558
- S Braccio, M Sharland, S Ladhani. Prevention and treatment of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis. Co Infectious Diseases. Volume 29, Number 3, June 2016, pg. 268-274. PMID: 27078816
- S Braccio, Z Chadderton, A Sherridan, M Upadhyaya. Tongue-tie division. Is it worth it? A retrospective cohort study. British Journal of Midwifery. May 2016. Vol 24, No 5, pg. 3-7
- S Braccio, V Saliba, M Ramsay, S Ladhani. Question: Does prophylactic paracetamol prevent fever after vaccination in infants? Archives of Disease in Childhood. Arch Dis Child December 2015 Vol 100 No 12, pg. 1178-1181. PMID: 26586519