Webinar – CONSORT- and SPIRIT-Children: Reflections on Emerging Guidelines for Paediatric clinical Trials

Dr. Martin Offringa is a paediatrician, clinical trialist, and chair of the SPIRIT|CONSORT-C guideline committee. Based at the Hospital for Sick Children’s in Toronto, he develops evidence informed tools that foster high quality design, conduct and analysis of child health trials. 

Ami Baba is a Senior Project Manager at The Hospital for Sick Children. Her work is focused on improving the transparency, quality, and utility of child health clinical research. She is the lead author of the SPIRIT-Children and Adolescents (SPIRIT-C) 2026 and CONSORT-Children and Adolescents (CONSORT-C) 2026 guideline extensions.

Professor Ed Juszczak is Professor of Clinical Trials and Statistics in Medicine at Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Nottingham. Ed has nearly 30 years of experience in the design, conduct, analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical trials, specializing in the perinatal field and multi-arm trial methodology, and is a contributor to major international trial reporting guidelines. 

Niina Kolehmainen is Professor of Child Health Research at Newcastle University, Lead of the Paediatric Methodology for the UK NIHR Methodology Incubator, and an allied health professional. She leads the development and evaluation of complex interventions, and contributed this expertise to the SPIRIT-C and CONSORT-C 2026 guidelines. 

Jenny Preston is Patient and Public Involvement Policy Manager at the University of Liverpool with more than two decades of experience working alongside patients, families, and the public. Jenny is a recognised specialist in involving children and young people in health research and champions inclusive, impactful involvement to ensure research reflects the voices and needs of diverse communities.

Chris Gale is a Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Deputy Director of Imperial Clinical Trials Unit, he also works clinically as a Consultant Neonatologist. His research focuses on neonatal population health – improving neonatal care through large clinical trials, observational research and population-level surveillance.

Michal Odermarsky is senior consultant pediatric cardiologist at Children Heart Center, Skåne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden. He expertise is heart failure, mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation.

Piet Leroy is a pediatric critical care specialist and professor of procedural comfort, sedation and analgesia at Maastricht University Medical Centre and the School of Health Professions Education (Maastricht University – The Netherlands)

Giorgio Reggiardo is an expert statistician with extensive experience in epidemiology, biostatistics, multivariate analysis, Bayesian inference, meta-analysis, big data analytics, and clinical trial design, including randomized controlled trials, power calculations, survival analysis, and regression methodologies. Giorgio Reggiardo is the Biostatistic Head at TEDDY as well as a member of TEDDY Board of Directors. He coordinates the TEDDY Working Group on “Paediatric Research Methodologies” with a particular focus on conducting studies and clinical research in the paediatric population.