Faculty

Kate Farrer

After completing Neonatal training in South London in 2002, Kate was appointed to a Consultant Neonatologist post at St George’s Hospital, Tooting. In early 2007 she moved from London to join the team of Neonatologists in Cambridge her home town. Kate is Lead Clinician for the Acute Neonatal Transfer Service for the East of England (ANTS) one of the busiest neonatal transfer teams in the country. Her other neonatal interests include resuscitation, neonatal brain injury and infection.

Wilf Kelsall     

Wilf Kelsall has worked as a consultant in Cambridge for over 17 years.  He co-ordinates the paediatric cardiac care of patients in Cambridge working in a hub and spoke model with Great Ormond Street Hospital. His main interests are on the accuracy and outcome following antenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease, neonatal management of the patent ductus arteriosus and delivery of local cardiac services both in a paediatric led clinic and a specialist outreach clinic.  He has talked and published widely on these areas.  He is a keen teacher of echocardiography skills to paediatricians.  

Professor Colin Morley    

Professor Morley was educated at the University of Cambridge and undertook his paediatric training in the UK. He was a Nuffield Research Fellow in Oxford where he started work on surfactant treatment for premature babies. He was appointed a University Lecturer / Consultant Paediatrician in Cambridge in 1979.  

In May 1998, he was appointed Professor/Director of Neonatal Medicine at The Royal Women’s Hospital and the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. His current research is into understanding neonatal resuscitation, nasal CPAP, ventilation and cytomegalovirus infection. He has published over 150 papers of which 17 are related to neonatal resuscitation. He is a co-recipient of an NHMRC five year program grant to investigate lung disease in premature babies.

Sara Harris

Neonatal Discharge Planning
Co-ordinator and Community Lead

Sara trained as a general nurse in late 1970’s in North London and initially specialised in cardio-thoracic nursing, working in clinical trials and research at the Brompton Hospital. She has gained extensive experience throughout her career in many areas of nursing that enhances her overall practice.

In 1996 Sara joined Addenbrookes Hospital Women’s and Children’s service where she worked in Rosie theatres prior to joining the Neonatal service. She obtained her 405 neonatal qualification and Diploma in Nursing (Critical Care) in 2000. After a secondment to the Neonatal Outreach Team Sara decided this was the direction she wished to pursue in her career pathway.

In 2004 Sara undertook her BA (Hons) in Primary and Community Care Specialist Practice (Health Visitor)and she gained a wealth of extensive experience in community practice, communication and partnership, working with numerous external agencies and she has brought this back into her role within neonatal services enhancing the service and family experience.

Since returning to Neonatal services in 2008 Sara has been an active member of the Mother and Baby Service Workforce Planning Development Programme and has been involved in many initiatives throughout the service. She has worked with colleagues from the Institute of Innovation and Improvement producing a case study for one of the eight High Impact Actions at a national level and has been a key member in developing the Neonatal End of Life Pathway in partnership with EACH Milton Hospice following the release of funding from the DH in 2010.

Sara continues in the role of Cambridge CONI co-ordinator and supports both CONI and CONI Plus families. She is an active member of a national working party led by The Wellchild Trust and Bliss in developing a NICU/PICU pathway to improve care in this area of practice. She has recently been elected Chair of the Special Interest Community NeonatalGroup and is also a member of the Neonatal Nurses Association Executive Committee.

Amanda Ogilvy-Stuart

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.

Professor John Wyatt

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.

Hannah Harris

Perinatal Course Administrator
Post Graduate Medical Centre
Cambridge.

Hannah has been employed at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 8 years, gaining a wealth of experience in numerous departments throughout the Trust and in various administrative duties. She joined the Post Graduate Medical Centre in 2008 as the GP course administrator and has established herself as a valuable member within the team, forging excellent links with the East Anglia Deanery and faculty. She has recently taken on the administrative co-ordination and organisation of the Perinatal programme.

Educated to A level grades in Cambridge, Hannah has continued to further develop her expertise and education, she has gained extensive experience in all aspects of administration and has obtained both the level 2 and 3 NVQ Business Administration qualifications within 18 months of commencement. She is committed to providing a professional service at an extremely high standard and can be relied upon to consistently deliver.