Prof. Neil Marlow

Neil Marlow is Professor of Neonatal Medicine at University College London. Until this year he was Chair of the NHS England Neonatal Critical Care Clinical Reference Group and the ongoing NHS England Neonatal Transformation Review.

He took up his appointment at UCL following 11 years as Professor of Neonatal Medicine at Nottingham and 7 years as Senior Lecturer in Bristol.  He is an Honorary Consultant in the University College Hospital Neonatal Service.  Neil provided neonatal advice to the DH Working Groups that reported on Neonatal Services in 2002 and to the Toolkit for Quality Neonatal Services published in 2008.

 

His major academic interests have been in long-term outcomes following prematurity and he is the Director of the MRC-funded EPICure studies. He runs a series of local studies into brain and cognitive development following very preterm birth, communication about extremely preterm birth and is a co-investigator on a range of mainly UK based cohort and randomised studies.

Neil has been President of the British Association for Perinatal Medicine, Director of the UCL Institute for Women’s Health, President of the European Society for Paediatric Research and Chair of two European Academy of Paediatric Societies Meetings.  He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and is an Honorary Life Friend of Bliss, the UK-based charity for premature babies. He is also a member of the executive of the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants.