ABOUT ME

Dr Hanci trained at St. George’s Hospital Medical School between 1997-2002. In 2003, he started specialist paediatric training in the London deanery. In 2014, he was employed as a full-time NHS Consultant Paediatrician at The Royal Surrey County Hospital. His day-to-day duties include caring for sick children ranging from those who are born premature up to adolescents and young adults with complex chronic illness such as cancer. He works both in the outpatient setting running general and specialist clinics, as well as undertaking resident work looking after acutely unwell patients on the paediatric ward, special care baby unit and paediatric A&E.

Dr Hanci has been awarded SPIN accreditation from the RCPCH and BSPGHAN for his interest and work in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition. He has been the Lead for Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the Royal Surrey County Hospital since 2014.

Dr Hanci also has an interest in Clinical Nutrition and has been awarded an MSc in this topic. His dissertation on coeliac disease has been used in a government consultation. He has presented his findings nationally and internationally and has won awards.

Furthermore, Dr. Hanci is passionate about medical education and has served a very successful tenure as the Paediatric College Tutor in Guildford and has been awarded an honorary contract with the University of Surrey as a Clinical Lecturer and St. George's University of London as an Honorary

Senior Lecturer.

In response to the global COVID pandemic, Dr. Hanci led on frontline paediatric research as co-principal investigator at The Royal Surrey County Hospital as part of the RECOVERY trial.

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Dr. Hanci has been awarded the prestigious Fellowship by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.