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TRUSTEES
Dr Parviz Habibi PhD FRCP FRCPCH - Chairman
Dr Parviz Habibi is a Reader in Paediatric Intensive Care and Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London and St Mary's NHS Trust London. He founded the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at St Mary’s Hospital in 1992 and was one of the pioneers of the Mobile Intensive Care Service for London.
Beverley Habibi MSc
The founder of COSMIC, Beverley Habibi was a manager at St Mary's NHS Trust between 1994 and 2000. She subsequently worked for the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust until she retired in 2003.
Dr Tom Lissauer MB BChir FRCP FRCPCH
Tom Lissauer is a specialist in neonatal medicine, he is Lead Neonatal Clinician for Clinical Governance and the Maternity Risk Management Board. He is also a Trustee of The Winnicott Foundation, another charity based at St Mary’s, whose purpose is to raise funds for the neonatal intensive care unit.
Jeremy Mills
Jeremy Mills is Managing Director of Lion Television Ltd. He has been the executive producer behind many of the most hard-hitting factual programmes on UK television, including award-winners Great Ormond Street and Children’s Hospital. He became involved in COSMIC in 1996 when the St Mary’s PICU team saved his daughter Katy’s life when she contracted meningococcal septicaemia.
Dr Simon Nadel FRCP
Simon Nadel is an Executive Board Member and Clinical Director, Paediatrics, at St Mary’s Hospital, London, where he has been a consultant since 1994. Prior to this, he was Research Fellow on the PICU for three years. Apart from his clinical work, he has a major research interest in the causes of serious infections in children and has been involved in the design and implementation of all the major clinical trials in children with septic shock.
Emma Rosenblatt
Emma Rosenblatt is the founder and chief executive of Redleaf Communications, a leading media and investor relations agency. Her son, Patrick Kane, was treated for meningococcal septicaemia in 1998 when he was nine months old. Emma has been actively involved in raising money for COSMIC including running the London Marathon (never again!) and sitting on the COSMIC Ball Committee.
Success Stories
Click on the links below to read how PICU helped these children through their illness. These PDF downloads are written by parents:
 Iona's story
 Katie's story
 Dominic's story
 Nurse Linda's story
Useful Links
For information on Meningoccocal disease, visit www.meningitis.org
For support in child bereavement, visit www.childbereavement.org.uk
For information about tax-efficient giving, visit www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk
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