Professor Charles Christopher Roehr

(UK)

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Charles C. Roehr is an academic neonatologist working in the UK. He is the Professor and chair for Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine at the University of Bristol, Honorary Consultant Neonatologist at Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, and Clinical Consultant Advisor to the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit – Clinical Trials Unit, Oxford Population Health, at the University of Oxford. Charles plans and conducts large scale clinical trials at the fascinating cross-section of perinatology and neonatology.

Charles received his Paediatric training in the UK (Oxford) and at the Charité University Medical Centre in Berlin, Germany. Following the completion of his research and teaching degree at the Charité (the German Habilitation), Charles spent two years as post-doc researcher and clinician with Professors S. B. Hooper and P. G. Davis in Melbourne, Australia (2012-14) before settling in the UK.

Charles has a strong interest in studies that help answer clinically relevant questions to improve the lives of babies and their families. His own clinical and research interests centre around understanding the cardio-respiratory adaptation during fetal-to-neonatal transition and on how to best support the newly born infant. He is an avid researcher, has supervised over 10 M.D. and 2 PhD thesis. His h-factor is 55, his over 270 peer reviewed publications are cited over 35,000 times. As a strong proponent of evidence-based neonatology and care for the newborn infant. Charles is a member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) neonatal task force and guideline writing group and sits on several editorial boards of well-known international paediatric journals.

Charles served as the President of Europe’s largest Paediatric research network, the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR, 2016-2023), he acts as the immediate-past NLS Scientific Co-Chair and the co-leading guideline author for the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and the well-followed European Consensus on Management of Respiratory Distress Syndrome guideline. Being a vocal ambassador for fostering and developing collaborative research and a passionate advocate for active patient/parent-partnership in neonatology, Charles is a scientific advisor to the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI).