Cheryl Battersby PhD

Cheryl Battersby is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit, Section of Academic Neonatal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

Dr Battersby read Medicine at the University of Nottingham, graduating in 2003 (BMedSci first class, BMBS). She undertook paediatric training in London, gaining membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2006 and commenced subspecialty training in Neonatal Medicine in 2010.

Dr Battersby's research interests centre on utilising routinely collected operational clinical records for research and quality improvement purposes. Her PhD focused on the epidemiology of Necrotising Enterocolitis and she led the UK Neonatal Collaborative-Necrotising Enterocolitis Study. Her other interests include improving data capture in low resource settings to facilitate quality improvement initiatives and improve newborn outcomes.