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Details for Professor Andrew Whitelaw
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| Name | Professor Andrew Whitelaw | ||||||||
| Job title | Emeritus Professor |
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| Department | School of Clinical Sciences University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | MB B Chir, MD, MRCP, FRCPCH | ||||||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health European Society for Paediatric Research British Association of Perinatal Medicine Neonatal Society |
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| Keywords | newborn brain injury newborn intensive care experimental brain treatment brain haemorrhage hydrocephalus |
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| 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. |
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| Media experience | My clinical work has been featured on BBC TV, Channel 4 News and Discovery Channel. |
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