Child Health

Anne Marie is a Consultant in neonatal medicine, based at a large tertiary neonatal centre co-located with the Royal Hospital for Children and Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow.   Dr Heuchan has a strong interest in neonatal echocardiography, structural and haemodynamic and its relationship to clinical interventions and the impact on cerebral perfusion (NIRS).   She has published peer reviewed papers on management of the PDA, the effect of surgical ligation of the PDA, VAGM and SCV flow, the relationship of RASA1 mutations with VGAM and the impact of PDA ligation on cerebral NIRS.   Dr Heuchan is currently involved in an international RCT of PDA management as well as a UK study of predictive factors for outcomes of neonates presenting with VGAM.

Helen is a Consultant neonatologist and paediatrician with an expertise in bone disease based in the neonatal unit, Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. Her particular research interest is in bone disease presenting in infancy.  She is involved with families and children from her antenatal clinics, the neonatal unit and in paediatric clinics from birth until transition to adulthood. Helen's  clinical research includes vitamin D deficiency and population health, record-linkage investigation of life-course in congenital anomalies and application of new sensing technologies in neonatal care. She has collaborations with clinical and basic science research groups nationally.  Helen completed her research doctorate (MD, University of Glasgow) in 2009. 

Joyce was born and educated in Cork, Ireland.  Her paediatric training took place between Ireland, Scotland and Australia, where she completed a Neonatal Research Fellowship at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne.     The focus of this research was neonatal resuscitation with a particular emphasis on intubation and videolaryngoscopy.   Joyce has worked since 2014 as a Neonatal Consultant at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. 

Neil is a Consultant Neonatologist and clinical researcher. His research focuses on congenital neonatal disease and assessment and treatment of the neonatal circulation. He has a particular interest in pulmonary hypertension in congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Neil's current research includes record-linkage investigation of life-course in congenital anomalies and application of new sensing technologies in neonatal care. He collaborates with clinical and basic science research groups nationally and internationally.
Neil completed his research doctorate (MD, University of Edinburgh) in 2009. His research has been conducted at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and currently at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow and supported by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity.

Martina is a Consultant Neonatologist at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. Her research interests include neonatal endocrinology with a particular focus on differences of sex development (DSD) and rare conditions. She was previously the Lead Clinician for The Scottish DSD Managed Clinical Network and is the current Chair of Scottish Government Rare Disease Implementation Board. Martina also has experience in the use of international rare disease registries to facilitate collaborative research through the MRC funded International DSD Registry

Susanna is a Consultant Neonatologist at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. Her research interests include evaluating and improving parent experience in neonatal care, with a focus on family integrated care, parent co-design and associated parent experience questionnaire design.

Susanna was awarded her PhD from Imperial College London, which was supported by a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) fellowship grant, NIHR CLAHRC Northwest London and Rosetrees Trust grants. Her research involved utilising routinely-recorded neonatal data to improve the parent experience of neonatal care, using quality improvement methodology and a mixed methods design.'