Dr. Alex Barnacle

Dr. Barnacle undertook her undergraduate medical training at the University of Southampton. After a variety of specialist posts in paediatric medicine, neonatal intensive care and paediatric surgery on the south coast and in London, she completed training in radiology at Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals in London. This included an 18 month fellowship in paediatric radiology and interventional radiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, followed by a 12-month fellowship in paediatric radiology at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

She was appointed as a consultant in interventional radiology at GOSH in 2004. She is the lead radiologist in the Vascular Anomalies Service at GOSH with a special interest in children with complex malformations. She is the lead interventional radiologist in the team of doctors who manage children with kidney stone disease at GOSH, providing keyhole surgical techniques (PCNL and PCCL) for stone removal.

She is a member of: Society of Pediatric Interventional Radiology (SPIR), International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA), British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR), Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE), and European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR). She is also the co-director of the bi-annual UK conference ‘Vascular Anomalies: A clinical approach’.