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Dr Anna Mathew has been a Consultant Paediatrician at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over the last 21 years, and is based at Worthing Hospital. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).

Dr Mathew works in General Paediatrics seeing children right across the age range from newborns to adolescents up to their 18th birthday, and has a special interest in children with respiratory and neurological problems.

She also has a special interest in Medical Education and obtained her MA in Medical Education from the University of Brighton in 2009. She regularly mentors 6th form students in their bid to apply to medical schools, and is involved in training and educating the full range of medical professionals, covering medical students, postgraduate doctors, GP's, nurses and allied health professionals.

Dr Mathew is also the Chair of the Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Clinical Examination (MRCPCH Clinical) and was the Chair of the Diploma in Child Health (DCH) Board for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and sits on its Examinations Executive. She has led and

participated in the postgraduate examinations of the RCPCH, both in the UK and internationally on several occasions.

Dr Mathew was a Governor in one of the local independent schools for 3 years relinquishing this role in around 2017. She is now a Staff Governor at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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I am a General Paediatrician, with a special interest in children with respiratory conditions and epilepsy.