Year James Spence Medal awarded: 2016
Professor Costeloe is a consultant neonatologist at the Homerton Hospital and Professor of Paediatrics at Barts and the London Hospitals.
In the latter capacity, she has led a number of important research projects in the field of neonatology. She has been instrumental in leading the influential and highly cited EPICure studies since 1995; these are population-based studies of survival and health status in extremely preterm infants. She is Co-Chair of the Steering Board of the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit at Imperial College London, one of the °µÍø½ûÇø’s main collaborators in its Neonatal Audit Programme. She recently completed the NIHR-funded Probiotics in Preterm Infants Trial, the largest randomised controlled study of this intervention in neonates. She has authored or co-authored many papers in peer-reviewed journals and has an extensive and distinguished record as a neonatal paediatrician, teacher and professional leader. For all of these achievements, she is strongly commended for the James Spence Medal.
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