Mark Johnson PhD, BM (Hons), BSc (Hons), FRCPCH

Dr. Mark Johnson is a consultant neonatologist at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and an honorary senior clinical lecturer in neonatal medicine at the University of Southampton. Mark's research centers around the nutritional care and growth of preterm infants, and the implementation of practice change to improve care. In particular, Mark’s research focuses on understanding and characterizing the optimal growth for infants born very prematurely, the factors that affect this, and how best to achieve this using nutrition in clinical practice.

Mark has been involved in national and international guidelines for intravenous and milk feeding for very premature babies and their nutritional requirements and has also written on topics that include nutritional assessment in children and premature babies neonatal nutritional screening and the assessment of growth in premature babies. Mark has also undertaken several systematic reviews in the area of neonatal nutrition. During his training, Mark was an NIHR (National Institute of Health Research) academic clinical fellow, and was later awarded a prestigious NIHR doctoral research fellowship to fund his PhD, which he was awarded by the University of Southampton in 2015. He is currently the lead for education and training for the nutrition theme of the Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.