Neena Modi holds the positions of Distinguished Principal Scientist and Deputy Executive Director at A*STAR IHDP. She is also Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Vice-Dean (International Affairs) at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London and Consultant with Neonatal Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.
A fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and president-elect of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, Modi is a past president of the British Medical Association, Medical Women’s Federation, and the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She has also headed the research organisations, The Neonatal Society and Academic Paediatrics Association of Great Britain and Ireland.
Modi leads a multidisciplinary neonatal research group tackling the care of sick and preterm newborn infants to improve life-long health. Her contributions have included national reports on children’s biomedical research and child health in the UK, and campaigning in relation to UK health services, environmental issues and child refugees. She led the establishment of a Child Health Research Collaboration and Children's Research Fellowship Fund. She has held by election, the three leading national children’s research positions in the UK, President of the Neonatal Society, President of the Academic Paediatrics Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Vice-President for Science and Research. She chaired the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee for five year, currently serves on a number of research committees and working groups, and is a trustee of the charities TheirWorld and Action Cerebral Palsy.
She leads the UK National Neonatal Research Database and eNewborn, an International Neonatal Research Database, registries of real-world clinical data curated for research. Her work on real-world clinical data for patient benefit has been widely acclaimed. In 2018 she received the Royal College of Physicians of London, “Excellence in Patient Care Award for Innovation” and in 2022, the US Critical-Path Institute International Neonatal Consortium “Data Pioneer Award for contributions to health data research” and the Medical Women’s International Association award for “a physician who has made outstanding contributions to the cause of women in medicine”. She is an advocate for child health and well-being, and youth enfranchisement, and a campaigner for the retention of the National Health Service as a primarily publicly funded, publicly delivered healthcare system.
Modi qualified from the University of Edinburgh, and undertook specialist training in neonatal medicine at University College Hospital London, and the University of Liverpool.
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