Faculty

Shazia Hoodbhoy is a neonatal consultant at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. She trained at St Thomas’, King’s College and St George’s Hospitals in London and was a consultant at The Royal London Hospital from 2008-2012. She is the lead for neonatal nutrition within the service and has an interest in postgraduate and multiprofessional education. She has taught as an invited lecturer for a number of postgraduate and Masters level courses. She is a Neonatal Simulation Training instructor and also an NLS instructor.

Topun Austin is the lead consultant for Neonatal Neurology in Cambridge. His research interests are in monitoring and imaging the developing brain to identify infants at risk of cerebral injury. He also is the project lead for the East of England Neonatal Neuroprotection Team, developing a coordinated service for neonatal neuroprotection, follow up and family centred care.

He has considerable teaching experience: as a Clinical Lecturer at University College London he was involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate education and training. He is currently an NLS instructor and also supervises undergraduates at Cambridge in neurobiology.

Gusztav Belteki is a Consultant Neonatologist at The Rosie Hospital, Cambridge. He also holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and worked in leading genomic research institutes, the Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge. His main clinical and research interest is the neonatal lung. He is interested in the molecular biology of lung maturation and injury. He also has an interest in neonatal ventilation, particularly in long-term ventilation monitoring and ventilator-patient interactions.He also has neonatal echocardiography skills and has been performing structural and functional neonatal echos for over five years. Gusztav has been a member of the faculty of CPG since 2009. He is an enthusiastic teacher and truly enjoys his own work.

Amanda Ogilvy-Stuart has been a consultant neonatologist at the Rosie hospital since 1998 and is currently the clinical director. She is also a senior member of St Edmund's college, University of Cambridge. She trained in paediatrics in Nottingham, Oxford, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, New Zealand and Manchester. Although interested in all aspects of neonatal care, her main interest is neonatal endocrinology. She has a published textbook, chapter publications, a number of commissioned reviews and original research articles on neonatal endocrinology. She also has an interest in medical education and ran the East of England regional registrar study days for five years before becoming one of the training programme directors for the Eastern Deanery for three years. She is the honorary treasurer of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine.

 Maria Chalia works as a Neonatal Consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She trained in Paediatrics in the East of England and completed her Neonatal Grid training between Cambridge and Royal London Hospital. Her interests are neonatal neurology and neurophysiology. She has completed a post-CCT fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and has sub-specialised in neonatal and young paediatric EEG between Great Ormond Street and Cambridge University Hospitals. She holds an MD research degree by the University of Cambridge, having studied neonatal brain injury using multi-channel near-infrared optical imaging and multi-channel video-EEG. She has a number of national and international presentations, publications and research activities. Maria is an enthusiastic teacher with main focus on cranial ultrasonography, neonatal amplitude integrated EEG, neonatal EEG and neonatal neurology.

Anna Curley is a neonatal consultant at The National Maternity Hospital, Dublin and a founding director of the Cambridge Perinatal Group. As a clinician she has a special interest in neonatal echocardiography. Primary research interests are neonatal respiratory medicine and neonatal haematology. She gained an MD in “The Role of Inflammation in the Evolution of Chronic Lung Disease in the Premature Neonate” in 2001. She is Research and Development Lead for Neonatal Services, Cambridge and is chief investigator for PlaNeT 2 a multi-centre randomised controlled trial of platelet transfusion thresholds in neonates. Other research interests included necrotising enterocolitis, chronic lung disease and transfusion related outcomes.

Professor John Wyatt is emeritus Professor of Neonatal Medicine at University College London. He has over 30 years of clinical and research experience specialising in perinatal brain injury and more recently neonatal ethics. His research interests spanned non-invasive brain monitoring, neonatal neuroprotection (including chief investigator of the original RCT for cooling, the CoolCap trial) and neurodevelopmental follow up, leading one of the longest running follow up studies at UCL.

He has extensive teaching experience, both to generations of medical students and trainees as well as an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings talking on a broad range of topics from neonatal brain injury to perinatal ethics. For over 15 years he ran the UCL Neonatal Cranial Ultrasound course and has been a regular contributor to the Cambridge Perinatal Group courses since its inception.

Mary Starace completed her general nurse training at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 1984 and worked in adult respiratory medicine for two years. Following a desire to be a district nurse Mary undertook training in midwifery. Although she enjoyed the midwifery training she ‘fell in love’ with neonatal nursing during her placement on NICU and after a short period of practising as a midwife she transferred to NICU.

May has worked in many roles over the years including senior sister and lead nurse on NICU although her passion lies in education and practice development. She is currently lead nurse for clinical education at NICU in Cambridge. The role enables her to combine clinical practice with education, leadership and management activities. She particularly enjoys this as it allows her to promote and enhance clinical practice in an ever changing health environment. She provides multi disciplinary staff development and education which ensure that practice is evidence based and evaluated with an influence and impact on patient care.

Mary is an NLS and GIC Instruction ad contributes at local, strategic and national level in the delivery of multi professional resuscitation training events. Her special interests are respiratory physiology, ventilation and neonatal resuscitation.

Annita Budzanowski, MD gained her final medical degree in Vienna, Austria. She went on to obtain her training in paediatric surgery at the Medical University Hospital of Vienna, Austria. Annita then came to the UK where she spent a year in Manchester for a Fellowship in Neonatal Medicine and Paediatric Surgery. After returning to Vienna, Annita was part of a group paediatric registrars in Vienna who felt there was an increasing need for regular teaching sessions combined with an international network. This led to the formation of PESPOS - paediatric seminars postgraduate surgery.Now in its 4th year as an international conference and with delegate numbers increasing year on year PESPOS has become a showcase for leaders in this field from all over the world who speak at the conference on a variety of topics. The conference has become an important date in the calendar to hear of the latest developments from experts as well as being an opportunity to network with colleagues from around the world.

Annita came to live in Cambridge in 2014 and holds the post of Clinical Fellow in the Paediatric Surgery department of Addenbrooke’s Hospital.