Meet the Team at School Health Check
Jaheed Khan – Director and Consultant Ophthalmologist
Dear Parent,
My name is Jaheed Khan and I am an ophthalmologist and father of 4 children.
I started School Health Check because I am guilty of not checking my children’s vision or hearing when they were young.
I was just too busy with other things. I never made time at the weekends to visit an optometrist, I assumed my kids’ hearing and speech development was ok. I had a general feeling that my kids were happy on the whole but how do you really know?
I don’t want parents to have to worry about these things and wanted to make these important health checks easier and convenient by doing them in schools.
I hope you find School Health Check useful.
Write to me if you think it has been or you have any ideas to improve what we do. We are always learning…
Best wishes
Jaheed
Meet the School Health Check specialist team.
I am immensely proud to work with specialists who are at the top of their game.
Reshma Pattani – Director and Specialist Optometrist
Reshma is a very experienced specialist optometrist who works at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
She helps deliver our vision screening service in schools and is very experienced in working with children of all ages.
She also runs the private children’s vision clinic that some of our children are referred to if we detect a vision problem in your child.
Mariam Ayad – Lead Specialist Orthoptist for Vision
Mariam is a very experienced specialist orthoptist who works at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
She leads the vision screening school service at School Health Check and also runs our private children’s vision clinic for onward referrals.
Rebecca Hill – Lead Specialist Audiologist for Hearing
Rebecca is a senior specialist paediatric audiologist who works at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Rebecca completed her Masters of Clinical Audiology at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia in 2009. and completed locum positions in several hospitals in London before starting her post at GOSH as senior audiologist in 2016.
In mid 2020 Rebecca begun a position leading community Paediatric Audiology at Barts Health.
She has special interests in complex paediatric diagnostic assessment and paediatric hearing aid fitting.
Before moving abroad Rebecca was a clinical educator at Macquarie University Speech and Hearing Clinic, a teaching clinic for masters of clinical audiology students.
Rebecca has previously worked in paediatric hearing implant fitting, community audiology and in clinical education.
Her research interests include, autism Spectrum Disorder, paediatric complex assessment, paediatric hearing aids /baha/CI.
She leads the hearing screening school service at School Health Check.
Philip Robinson – Lead Speech and Language Therapist for Speech
Philip Robinson is a Speech and Language Therapist who has been practising since 2012, having qualified from the University of Sheffield (MMedSci Clinical Communication Studies).
He has worked with a varied caseload both in the NHS and in independent practise, and now works predominantly in the field of Dysfluency (Stuttering).
He also works as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Assessment team, The Child & Family Practise.
Philip is a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT), the Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practise (ASLTIP), and his clinical work is regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Philip leads the Speech screening school service at School Health Check.