Jonathan Round is a Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, Professor of Practice – Clinical Education and Head of School at the London School of Paediatrics. Jonathan qualified from Oxford and then King’s College in 1990.
After training in London and Australia, he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics and Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at St George’s in 2002. He became a Reader in Clinical Education in 2011, served as Children’s Clinical Director 2012-2015, and was appointed as Training Programme Director for the London School of Paediatrics in 2011.
Following working as Director of Medical Education 2015-2019 at St George’s, he was appointed as Head of the London School of Paediatrics from April 2019. He was promoted to Professor in 2021. Jonathan’s clinical work is in Paediatric Intensive Care and Paediatric Cardiology. His unit manages children with a wide range of intensive care problems, specialising in oncology, neurology and surgical causes of critical illness. His cardiology practice sees him managing a wide range of children’s heart conditions. He is Lead for Paediatric Education at St George’s, University of London and has published numerous articles and an award-winning book in Medical Education and Paediatrics.
He works closely with the e-Learning Unit, developing educationally useful technologies. His research is in medical error, virtual patients and their use in education, in paediatric oncology, and in clinical system design. As Head of the London School of Paediatrics, he leads the training and development of 1,200 junior doctors as they develop into the consultants of the future. His vision is to see the best possible outcomes and experience for patients and families through improving medical education and by training the next generation of healthcare professionals to be better than their predecessors.