Dr Dionysios Alexandrou

Dr Alexandrou is a London-based Consultant Paediatrician and Neonatologist, with nearly 30 years’ career dedicated in children’s health and well-being. He has particular experience and expertise in all problems of the newborn and the first years of life. He specialises in a wide range of conditions including: jaundice, unsettled babies, feeding and growth problems, gastro-oesophageal reflux, chronic cough and wheeze/asthma, fever/infections, diarrhoea and vomiting, constipation, skin conditions such as cradle cap, nappy rash, eczema, urticaria. Additionally, he offers baby checks and developmental assessments, advice on weaning to solids and food diversification, advice on immunisation and prenatal consultations to prospective parents. 

Dr Alexandrou is a Consultant Paediatrician and the Named Doctor for safeguarding children at the Richard Desmond Children's Centre, Moorfields NHS Trust. There he manages children with complex problems, often in close collaboration with specialist colleagues and teams from other tertiary paediatric centres, such as Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Evelina Children’s Hospital, London.  

Dr Alexandrou graduated from Athens University Medical School and he undertook his entire paediatric specialist training in the UK. He had further subspecialty training in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

He held academic appointments as Clinical Lecturer in Child Health at St George’s Medical School in London, where he lectured Paediatrics and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Imperial College School of Medicine.  He completed his research on lung development and he was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) from London University.

feeding difficulties

gastric reflux

milk protein allergy

jaundice

Immunizations

Vaccinations/vaccines

Health check

Baby check

6-week baby check

cough

Fever

ear infections

throat infections

runny nose and cough

wheeziness

abdominal pain

headache

constipation

skin rashes

eczema

Due to the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID19 pandemic, I now offer remote telephone/video consultations. Almost all insurance companies have agreed to cover remote consultations after prior authorization.

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• Examination of the newborn infant
• Monitoring of growth & development during the first years of life
• Feeding problems and gastro-oesophageal reflux in infants
• Expert advice on immunisation
• Problems of airways and lungs: chronic cough and wheeziness, early asthma, ear and throat infections
• Investigation & management of urinary tract infections, skin and eye infections
• Skin problems in children: eczema, allergic reactions, skin infections
• Investigation and management of headaches in children
• Investigation and management of limping in children
• Investigation and management of acute and chronic abdominal pain in children