Anne Greenough, MBBS, MD

My research is clinically focused answering questions relevant to improving prevention and management concerning the early origins of respiratory disease. My particular interests are to evaluate antenatal diagnosis and management of conditions likely to affect lung growth and function, optimising delivery suite resuscitation and neonatal unit ventilatory support and identifying risk factors for long term respiratory morbidity and possible preventative interventions. I also have a particular interest on the impact of sickle cell disease on lung function. I have been lucky enough to have been awarded extensive grant income and hence support bright young trainees successfully through completion of their MDRes or PhD.  I have developed extensive international collaborations with like-minded clinical researchers.  As a consequence of all this research activity, I have authored a large number of research publications, which most importantly have changed clinical practice informing major international textbooks and guidelines.  I feel privileged to have developed the NICU at King’s College Hospital into one that has an international reputation for its clinical research attracting trainees and fellows from all over the world. It is essential to enthuse others in research, as research will improve outcomes, but also to give them the necessary skills and opportunities. Hence, I successfully applied to be the Chair of the NIHR Paediatrics (non-medicines) Speciality Group and was pleased that during my five year term we had a 40% year upon year increase in patient recruitment into paediatric studies. In 2014, I applied and was competitively elected to be Vice President (Science and Research) of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).  There, I was supported by an excellent team to increase research capacity, including by supporting a collaboration of research funders and generic research training for all trainees and developing a research funding database and an infants, children’s and young people’s research charter. As Head of School of Medicine at King’s College, London (KCL), I led the development of faculty to improve research outcomes and was delighted when, at the end of my term of office, KCL’s Clinical Medicine’s research had so improved we were third for quality in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.