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Personal details
Name Professor Andrew Whitelaw
Job title Emeritus Professor
Department Bristol Medical School (THS) University of Bristol
Work contact details
Email address
 
Telephone number work(0117) 968 1236
Qualifications MB B Chir, MD., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.C.H.
Professional details
Membership of professional bodies Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
European Society for Paediatric Research
British Association of Perinatal Medicine
Neonatal Society
Keywords newborn brain injury
newborn intensive care
experimental brain treatment
brain haemorrhage
hydrocephalus
Areas of expertise I have 30 years of clinical experience with sick newborn infants and have worked on the mechanisms and treatment of brain injury in babies for over 20 years.

I have extensive experience of clinical trials of treatments to protect the newborn brain from injury, particulary premature babies with brain haemorrhage. I am a co-ordinator of the Cochrane Library Neonatal Review Group.
Languages (other than English)
Norwegian spoken    written
Media experience My clinical work has been featured on BBC TV, Channel 4 News and Discovery Channel.