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Professor John Wyatt

  Professor John Wyatt

 John Wyatt is Professor of Ethics &  Perinatology at UCL. He has a clinical background as an academic neonatologist working on the mechanisms, consequences and prevention of brain injury in critically ill newborn infants. His work is now concentrated on ethical issues raised by advances in reproductive and medical technology at the beginning of life, research ethics and governance and the philosophical basis of medical practice. He is lead for the Clinical Ethics network at UCLH, a member of the ethics committees of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and a board member of Biocentre.

Contact:

john.wyatt@uclh.nhs.uk

profjwyatt@gmail.com

 
 

Publications include:

Riley K, Roth S, Sellwood M, Wyatt JS. Survival and neurodevelopmental morbidity at 1 year of age following extremely preterm delivery over a 20-year period: a single centre cohort study. Acta Paediatr. 2008; 97: 159-65.

Wyatt J. End-of-life decisions, quality of life and the newborn. Acta Paediatr. 2007 Jun; 96(6): 790-1.