Don is Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Technologies, University of Nottingham, and Honorary Consultant Neonatologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. He has a broad research portfolio including a particular interest in healthcare technology for babies and children. He is involved with medical device development in the fields of neonatal resuscitation, neonatal monitoring and diagnostics, automated early warning score systems incorporating electronic assessment of capillary refill, and also medical App development.

His other main research focus relates to inter-hospital transport of neonatal patients and the stress, vibration, noise and safety aspects of this.

Don is the lead clinical investigator on a number of healthcare technology studies including HeartLight (newborn resuscitation), DoppCord (newborn transition at the point of cord clamping), Preterm infant transport stress (PremiTranS) study, Gestational assessment tool (GestATion Study), Neonatal perfusion monitoring using laser speckle imaging (NeoPerf) and paediatric continuous early warning system (PRefill Study).

In addition to these, Don’s team is involved in developing models for neonatal transport stress and utility of near infra-red spectroscopy in a variety of neonatal settings.

Jon is Professor of Child Health and Neonatology at the University of Leeds, and Honorary Consultant Neonatologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He has a significant research portfolio of grant funding for multi-centre research studies in the UK, Canada and Australia.

His research interests include infant nutrition and feeding, placental transfusion, perinatal epidemiology and clinical trials, postoperative pain management in infants, maternal and child health, and family integrated care.

Jon’s current neonatal and perinatal trials include NeoGASTRIC, FEED1, COMET, DEXTA, WHEAT and GBS3. He was the chief investigator for SIFT (Speed of Increasing Feeds Trial), which compared two rates of increasing milk feeds in very preterm infants and resulted in a first author paper in the New England Journal of Medicine. He was the neonatal lead for the CORD pilot trial of deferred cord clamping. He has published over 160 peer reviewed papers.

Professor Katie Morris is a Consultant Obstetrician and subspecialism in maternal-fetal health at Birmingham Women’s Hospital and holds an academic appointment as a Reader in Maternal-Fetal Health at the University of Birmingham. Her clinical expertise relates to prenatal diagnosis, the diagnosis of fetal anomalies, conditions requiring fetal therapy including complications of monochorionic twins and intrauterine growth restriction and high-risk obstetrics including maternal cardiac disease and preterm birth. Her research relates to her areas of clinical expertise and employs diverse methodologies including prognostic modelling, test accuracy research, epidemiology studies, randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. As Director of Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit she is responsible for leading, developing and delivering a robust and effective clinical trials strategy to assure excellence of the research programme.

Dr Katie Gallagher is an neonatal nurse specialising in clinical neonatal research. Katie trained as a nurse at the University of Nottingham before completing her PhD in 2010. Katie has spent time in various clinical, teaching, and research positions in London, where Katie is currently a clinical lecturer at the Institute for Women’s Health at University College London.

Katie’s current funded projects include the development of a core outcome set for neonatal palliative care (the NeoPace study), the exploration of attitudes towards the treatment of extremely preterm infants, and determining optimal frequency of bathing babies in neonatal care (the NeoBath study). Katie is an Executive Board member of the Neonatal Nurses Association (NNA) and Chairs the NNA PhD support group.

Adele is the Lead ANNP at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, with over 18 years previous experience in both a tertiary centre and transport setting.

Working within a local level two neonatal unit she is responsible for supporting medical,  nursing and midwifery staff in the resuscitation and on-going management of neonatal patients. She is currently developing the newly introduced role of the ANNP within the unit and line managing both qualified and trainee ANNPs. Service improvement is quickly becoming a large part of her work, including the transitional care project, reducing separation of infants from their families and Black Maternity Matters.

Adele is an ARNI and NLS instructor and also enjoys teaching midwives, nurses and junior doctors on local programmes.

After being awarded a Scholarship with the NNA she successfully introduced the use of an infant harness in the UK, allowing infants to be transported whilst receiving kangaroo cuddles from parents. She has enjoyed sharing her project at local events and national conferences and is looking forward to introducing exciting new concepts in a local neonatal unit.