David Edwards MB, DSc, FMedSci

David Edwards is professor of children's and neonatal medicine, Kings College London and Director of the King's College Centre for the Developing Brain. He was previously the Weston professor of neonatal medicine, Head in the Neonatal Medicine Group at the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, and Chairman and head of the division of paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology at Imperial College London.

After graduating from Oxford, David spent a year as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He trained at the Medical School at Guy's Hospital and studied neonatology at University College London before moving to the Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College.He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1986 and a Fellow in 1993, a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 1998, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2002. In 2009, David was made an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Radiologists.