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Dr Margarita Burmester is a leading consultant paediatric specialist based in London with over 30 years’ experience who is trained in all aspects of paediatrics. This includes preventative paediatric care, general paediatric care, paediatric cardiac intensive care and paediatric critical care, as well as child development, infant colic, constipation, upper respiratory tract infections and health screening and surveillance.
With a passion for preventing ill health, Dr Burmester is the co-founder and director of the award winning Bright Futures Programme, an extensive all-encompassing health surveillance and screening programme for families based on the American Academy of Pediatrics model. This programme is currently available at 77 Wimpole Street and at the Chiswick Medical Centre, where Dr Burmester consults privately, offering paediatric care, child health surveillance, and health check-ups.
Dr Burmester qualified from St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, University of London, in 1989. Since then, she has worked in Canada at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, in the USA at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, and in London at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Dr Burmester was awarded her postgraduate certification in clinical education from King’s College University London in 2016, and has been both a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority and a Member of the Academy of Medical Educators. In addition to her dedicated private practice, Dr Burmester has been a consultant paediatric intensivist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London since 2002, where she was director of paediatric intensive care from 2009-2023. In 2008, Dr Burmester founded the multiple prize winning patient-safety educational SPRinT (Simulated Interprofessional Team Training) programme at Royal Brompton Hospital, with the objective of enhancing patient care.
Dr Burmester was the President of the Paediatrics and Child Health section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2018 to 2021, and is a senior lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute. She has authored multiple publications, presented at numerous lectures, and has developed patented tools for patient care improvement. Dr Burmester's clinical performance has been recognised nationally through receiving the silver clinical excellence award given to the top 1.8% of all consultants, and she is a co-recipient of a prestigious Wellcome Trust Award.
Following her many quality improvement initiatives, Dr Burmester has been appointed “Q” fellow by the Health Foundation UK.
As paediatrician and mother of three children, Dr Burmester is passionate about prioritising children's futures and understands the importance of maximising children’s health so that they can look forward to the brightest possible future.
Education
MBBS (1989) St Thomas' Medical School
MRCP (UK) 1994
ECFMG (USA) 1997
FRCPCH 2011
PGCert in Clinical Education (2016) King's College University
Memberships
Fellow, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Member, European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care
Academy of Medical Educators (MAcadMEd)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Q Member, The Heath Foundation
