DOHaD 2022 Speakers

David Edwards

MRI, Brain Imaging

UK

David is a consultant neonatologist at the London Children’s Hospital and Professor of pediatrics and neonatal medicine at Kings College, London.  He has studied mechanisms of perinatal brain damage, working to reduce death and severe neurological impairment caused by birth asphyxia, with an annual global loss of 50 million Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY), and brain abnormalities associated with preterm birth,  one of the “top ten” conditions assessed by the 20210 Global Burden of Disease Study.