Dr Anne Wright

Specialises in childhood bladder and bowel dysfunction as well as physical and learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Biography

Dr Anne Wright is a lead consultant paediatrician at the children’s bladder clinic at Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

She works closely with the nephrourology department and is responsible for paediatric video urodynamic investigation within the service, which also offers uroflowmetry with electromyography (EMG), bladder scans, biofeedback and neuromodulation.

Dr Wright has worked extensively with NICE, is President of the Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence (ERIC) charity and is the Education chairperson for the International Children’s Continence Society (ICCS). She also teaches and lectures nationally and internationally, publishing several papers and book chapters.

Conditions

• Childhood bladder bowel dysfunction.
• Enuresis/bedwetting.
• Overactive bladder/daytime urinary incontinence.
• Dysfunctional voiding.
• Giggle incontinence.
• Constipation and soiling.
• Toilet postponement.
• Neurogenic bladders.

Procedures/ treatments

• Urotherapy.
• Non-invasive (uroflowmetry +/- EMG) and invasive urodynamics.
• Bladder scan.
• Neuromodulation/TENS.

Special/ research interests

Dr Wright is an expert in childhood bladder and bowel dysfunction including bedwetting, daytime wetting, giggle incontinence, constipation and soiling and neuropathic bladders. She also specialises in physical and learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders (autistic spectrum disorders, ADHD).

Paediatric bladder dysfunction:

• Overactive bladders.
• Enuresis.
• Neurogenic bladder.
• Giggle incontinence.
• Bladder dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Memberships of professional bodies

• Member of Royal college of Paediatrics and Child Health
• International Children’s Continence Society

Practice locations

• Evelina London Children’s Hospital.