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External resources

• Vitamin D for Children educational site

Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Paediatrician
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore

Research interests

My first research thesis (MD) was a study of the psychological features of childhood eczema in Manchester in 1996. In 1999 I completed a research thesis on Influenza in childhood. My current research is centred on Bone Medicine and in particular Vitamin D Deficiency.

Awards received

Humanitarian Award 1998 Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

Publications

Self-portraits and self-concept of children with atopic eczema.
Ambulatory Child Health. 1997;3:148.

Jacobs B. Biblical origins of placebo.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. April 2000;93:213-214.

Jacobs B, Young NL, Dick PT, Ipp MM, Dutkowski R, Davies HD, Langley JM, Greenberg S, Stephens D, Wang EEL.
Canadian Acute Respiratory Illness and Flu Scale (CARIFS). Development of a valid measure for childhood respiratory infections.
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2000;53 (8):793-799.

Islam L, Gopinathan S, Jacobs B, Flannagan A. Chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis (CNO).
Archives of Disease in Childhood. 91 Supplement 1:A55-A56, April 2006.

Ramnarayan P, Winrow A, Coren M, Nanduri V, Buchdahl R, Jacobs B, Fisher H, Taylor PM, Wyatt JC, Britto J.
Diagnostic omission errors in acute paediatric practice: impact of a reminder system on decision-making.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2006, 6:37

Benjamin Jacobs and Deborah Eastwood: Orthopaedic problems. In Practical Paediatric Problems in Primary Care by Bannon MJ and Carter Y. Oxford University Press 2007.

Gikas PD, Islam L, Aston W, Tirabosco R, Saifuddin A, Briggs TW, Cannon SR, O'Donnell P, Jacobs B, and Flanagan AM.
Nonbacterial osteitis: a clinical, histopathological, and imaging study with a proposal for protocol-based management of patients with this diagnosis.
Journal of Orthopaedic Science 2009;14(5):505-16

Update of Asthma chapter in ABC of One to Seven (ABC Series) by Bernard Valman, BMJ Books 5th edition 2009.

Jacobs B.
Toe walking, flat feet and bow legs, in-toeing and out-toeing.
Paediatrics and Child Health 2010; 20(5): 221-224

Hypocalcaemic convulsions due to vitamin D deficiency may masquerade as simple febrile convulsions
Julies P, Jacobs B. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2011;96:A68

Arundel P, Ahmed SF, Allgrove J, Bishop NJ, Burren CP, Jacobs B, Mughal MZ, Offiah AC, Shaw NJ
British Paediatric and Adolescent Bone Group’s position statement on vitamin D deficiency
BMJ 2012;345:e8182

McAree T, Jacobs B, Manickavasagar T, Sivalokanathan S, Brennan L, Bassett P, Rainbow S, Blair M
Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy – still a public health issue
Maternal & Child Nutrition 2013;9:23-30

Is Single Oral Dose of 300,000 IU Vitamin D3 Adequate for Treatment of Nutritional Rickets?
Jacobs B
www.indianpediatrics.net/apr2014/260.pdf

Courses offered to GPs

Vitamin D Deficiency: Why the fuss?