Professor David Edwards MBE FMedSci

David Edwards is Weston Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Chairman of the Division of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College. He has made major advances in understanding the mechanisms of neurological impairment amongst the survivors of neonatal intensive care. He built the first dedicated neonatal MR imaging system sited within an intensive care unit. This has allowed the study of infants born at less than thirty weeks gestation from soon after birth. He is leading a randomised multi-centred controlled trial to study the therapeutic effects of whole-body cooling after asphyxia in term-born human infants.