Neena Modi

Neena Modiis a Professor of Neonatal medicine at Imperial College London, and has been the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health since April 2015 (one of only three women to ever hold that position).

Modi is a Professor of Neonatal Medicine at Imperial College London. She is also an Honorary Consultant in Neonatal Medicine in Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.

She was elected as President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in December 2014, taking up the role on 29 April 2015. She is the current chair of the British Medical Journal's Ethics Committee. She is also President of the Neonatal Society.

Modi describes herself as coming from a multicultural background. Neena is married and has two children.

Modi qualified from the University of Edinburgh. She undertook specialist training in neonatal medicine at University College Hospital London, and the University of Liverpool.

During her career she has served, among many other roles, as President of the UK Neonatal Society, President of the Academic Paediatrics Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and chair of The British Medical Ethics committee (from 2009 to 2015), and Chair of the NHS England Infant, Children and Young People Patient Safety Expert Group. She led the development of the UK National Neonatal Research Database and now directs this national and international resource for research, quality improvement, audit, and surveillance that contains detailed information on all admissions to neonatal units in England, Wales and Scotland.

A practicing clinician and academic lead of a multidisciplinary neonatal research program, Modi's research interests include nutritional and other perinatal determinants of lifelong metabolic health, medical ethics, and child health. In 2007 she led the establishment of the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit at Imperial College London, and in 2012, the UK Neonatal Collaborative, with the aim of developing the use of clinical electronic data to support neonatal services and research. During her tenure as Vice President for Research at the RCPCH, Modi was lead author on the RCPCH's Turning the Tide report highlighting the need to strengthen child health research in the UK. Modi is chair of the NHS England Infant, Children's and Young People's Patient Safety Expert Group. She directs"Neonatal Update: the Science of Newborn Care" anannual week-long international meeting held in London.