Dr Katie Malbon

Dr Katie Malbon

Consultant Paediatrician & Adolescent Medicine Specialist

MBChB, MD (USA), FRCPCH

GMC: 4401791

Speaks:
  • English

Conditions

  • Well baby checks
  • Newborn advice on feeding, sleeping and development
  • Colic and feeding difficulties
  • Weaning advice
  • Constipation
  • Diarrhoea
  • Growth and developmental concerns
  • Behavioural concerns
  • Sleep problems
  • Bed wetting
  • Headaches
  • Joint or muscular pains
  • Abdominal pain
  • Weight loss
  • Weight gain
  • Recurrent cough
  • Skin conditions including rashes
  • Palpitations
  • Mental health concerns
  • General physical health concerns
  • Troublesome or heavy periods
  • Absent or delayed periods
  • Irregular or abnormal bleeding
  • Concerns about genital anatomy
  • Sore, itchy genital area
  • Vaginal discharge
  • Sexual health concerns
  • Contraceptive counselling
  • Suspected or confirmed genital infections
  • Concerns about sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

Test & Procedures

  • Routine Childhood Vaccinations
  • Travel Vaccinations
  • HPV vaccination
  • Sexual health screening for teens
  • STI testing
  • Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia Testing
  • Herpes simplex virus (HSV) swabs for suspected herpes
  • Microbiology cultures for genital discharge
  • Pregnancy test
  • Blood tests (based on symptoms or clinical need)

Biography

Dr Katie Malbon is a Consultant Paediatrician and Adolescent Medicine Specialists. She is the lead for Children and young people’s Mental Health at Imperial College NHS Trust.

Having completed paediatric training in London, she moved to the USA in 2007 to undertake a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. During that time, she established an innovative text messaging service “Text in the City” for young people attending an adolescent health centre. In 2013 she took a position at Tribeca Paediatrics where she developed and led a specialist adolescent service and served as president of the New York chapter of the society for adolescent health and medicine. Katie moved back to London in 2015 to take up her current post where she has established new services for Paediatric Rheumatology, Gynaecology, and Adolescent Medicine and has been the named doctor for safeguarding.

Katie is currently the Chief medical advisor and safeguarding lead for a health and well-being App for Young People – Luna. She is also the clinical coordinator for child studies for the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD).

Subspecialties/Areas of Interest

  • Adolescent medicine
  • Gynaecology
  • Rheumatology
  • Immunisation
  • CYP Mental Health