Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Cymbeline Moore

Director of Strategy and Engagement

Cymbeline is a trained journalist who has worked in communications for the NHS for the last 12 years. After working for the Trinity Mirror group of newspapers as a news editor she moved into NHS communications at Hammersmith Hospitals. During her time there she became head of public relations and then director of communications for the newly-formed Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Cymbeline has headed up communications, and press activity for GOSH since 2012. Between 2012 – 2021 she also oversaw press, family stories and celebrity activity for GOSH Charity.

Jason Dawson

Chief Infrastructure and Redevelopment Officer

Jason joined GOSH in October 2022 as Interim Director of Space and Place. A Chartered Quantity Surveyor by background, Jason is an experienced healthcare director as well as a qualified property and commercial professional. Jason worked at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust from 2008 to 2019 during which time he led the construction and delivery of the UK’s first High Energy Proton Beam Therapy Centre before becoming Chief Operating Officer of The Christie Private Care until 2021.

Kiki Syrad

Director of Research and Innovation

Prior to this, Kiki was Head of Research and Funding at Breast Cancer Now. Kiki did her PhD at Melbourne University, Australia, focusing on cancer therapies. As a researcher, she was part of the Angiogenesis group at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford, working on a potential therapeutic cancer target and identifying novel cancer markers. Kiki currently serves as a trustee of the UCL ICH – The Child Health Research Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). She has previously been a trustee of both the National Children’s Bureau and NHS Charities Together, bringing experience across children’s services, health policy and the wider NHS charity sector.

Margaret Monckton

Chief Finance Officer

Margaret joined GOSH in January 2025 from the University of Nottingham where she was Chief Financial Officer for 8 years. Margaret has also previously worked at Staffordshire University, Nottinghamshire Police, The National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services and Boots and has held a number of non executive roles including being a governor for a further education college, the lead higher education sector pension scheme negotiator for UCEA and an independent member of the Officer for Students Audit Committee. She is currently the Chair of the NOVA Education Trust and a Non Executive Director at University Hospital North Midlands NHS Trust. Margaret attends Audit Committee and Finance and Performance Committee.

Sarah Ottaway

Acting Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development

Tracy joined GOSH in February 2022 from Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where she had been Director of Nursing and Allied Healthcare Professions since 2011. Tracy began her nursing career in North Wales at Wrexham Maelor Hospital and worked in several trusts including Homerton University Hospital, where she was a senior nurse leader responsible for children and women’s services. Her commitment to nursing was recognised when she was presented with a prestigious Gold Award from the NHS chief nursing officer, Ruth May. Tracy attends Quality, Safety and Experience Assurance Committee and People and Education Assurance Committee. Jason joined GOSH in October 2022 as Interim Director of Space and Place. A Chartered Quantity Surveyor by background, Jason is an experienced healthcare director as well as a qualified property and commercial professional. Jason worked at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust from 2008 to 2019 during which time he led the construction and delivery of the UK’s first High Energy Proton Beam Therapy Centre before becoming Chief Operating Officer of The Christie Private Care until 2021.

Sophia Varadkar

Chief Medical Officer

Sophia is a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist and is currently the Acting Chief Medical Officer at GOSH having previously held the roles of Co-Medical Director for the North Thames Genomics Medicine Service and Deputy Medical Director at GOSH. She is an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London. Sophia completed her undergraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and her postgraduate medical training in Dublin and London. Her clinical work focuses on complex epilepsy, the Children’s Epilepsy Surgery Service, and MR-guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LiTT). Her clinical research training and PhD were in GOSH UCL Institute of Child Health. Since then, she has been site principle investigator and co-investigator on a number of clinical studies and co-applicant on an NIHR Programme Grant: Transforming the mental health treatment of young people with epilepsy. Currently Sophia sits on the NHS England Paediatric Neuroscience Clinical Reference Group, and she is Chair of the British Paediatric Neurology Association Paediatric Epilepsy Training Programme Steering Committee. Previously she has been a member of the NHS England Genomics Ethics, Equity and Legal Advisory Group. She attends Quality, Safety and Experience Assurance Committee and the People and Education Assurance Committee.

Tracy Luckett

Chief Nurse

Tracy joined GOSH in February 2022 from Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where she had been Director of Nursing and Allied Healthcare Professions since 2011. Tracy began her nursing career in North Wales at Wrexham Maelor Hospital and worked in several trusts including Homerton University Hospital, where she was a senior nurse leader responsible for children and women’s services. Her commitment to nursing was recognised when she was presented with a prestigious Gold Award from the NHS chief nursing officer, Ruth May. Tracy attends Quality, Safety and Experience Assurance Committee and People and Education Assurance Committee.

Adam White

Non-Executive Director

Adam is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) with over 20 years' experience in financing, procuring and delivering complex real estate projects. His current advisory work spans major schemes of national significance, including the North Manchester General Hospital - Healthy Neighbourhood redevelopment, Cambridge Science Park, Sister innovation district (Manchester) and Weavers Cross (Belfast).

Amanda Rajkumar

Non-Executive Director

Camilla Kingdon

Deputy Chair and Senior Independent Director

Camilla is a consultant neonatologist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and has worked there since 2000. She graduated with an MBChB from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and undertook her Paediatric training in London. Until March 2024 she was President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). She has an MA in Medical Careers Management and was Head of the London School of Paediatrics and Child Health for five years from 2014. Camilla has recently been appointed to chair the Children and Young People’s Gender Services National Provider Network for England. In this capacity she is leading the implementation of the Cass Review into Children’s Gender Services which has the holistic care of gender questioning young people at its heart. She also chairs the National Multidisciplinary Team for Gender Services. Camilla is especially interested in the impact of climate change and air pollution on children globally. She chairs the UK Healthy Air Coalition which is a group of transport, health and environmental groups all focussed on improving air quality in the UK. Camilla chairs the Quality, Safety and Experience Assurance Committee and is a member of the People and Education Assurance Committee. She is also the Board Sustainability and Mental Health champion.

Gautam Dalal

Non-Executive Director

Helen Cross OBE

Non-Executive Director

Helen is a member of the Quality, Safety and Experience Assurance Committee and the People and Education Assurance Committee.

Suzanne Ellis

Non-Executive Director