Dr Tony Walls
Senior Lecturer
Paediatric
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Tony Walls is a graduate of the University of Otago, having trained in Paediatrics at both Christchurch and Dunedin Hospitals. He trained as a Paediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at the Royal London Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. At this time he completed an M.D. through the University of London, focusing on adenovirus infection in children following bone marrow transplantation.
Research Interest
in the management of infection in immunocompromised children
Publications
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Moeeni, V., Walls, T., & Day, A. S. (2014). The STRONGkids nutritional risk screening tool can be used by paediatric nurses to identify hospitalised children at risk. Acta Paediatrica, 103, e528-e531. doi: 10.1111/apa.12768
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Foster, M. A., & Walls, T. (2014). High rates of complications following Kingella kingae infective endocarditis in children: A case series and review of the literature. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 33(7), 785-786. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000303
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Ingram, P. R., Cheng, A. C., Murray, R. J., Blyth, C. C., Walls, T., Fisher, D. A., … on behalf of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network. (2014). What do infectious diseases physicians do? A 2-week snapshot of inpatient consultative activities across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Clinical Microbiology & Infection, 20(10), O737-O744. doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12581
