Professor Andrew Wilkinson
MB ChB, MA, DCH, FRCP, FRCPCH
Emeritus Fellow since 2011
Professor of Paediatrics
Director of Neonatal Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital
Contact by email
Background
- Clinical Reader in paediatrics, University of Oxford (from 1992 to 1997)
- Consultant Paediatrician, Oxfordshire Health Authority (from 1981 to 1992)
- Clinical Lecturer in paediatrics, University of Oxford (from 1978 to 1981)
- Fellow, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA (from 1975 to 1977)
- Nuffield Medical Research Fellow, University of Oxford (from 1974 to 1975)
- Senior House Officer in paediatrics at: Great Ormond Street Hospital and Oxford. Registrar, Southampton (from 1973 to 1974)
- Senior House Officer and Registrar in medicine, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, King Edward V11 Hospital, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon (from 1970 to 1972)
- House Officer in paediatrics, Warwick Hospital (from 1969 to 1970)
- House Officer in medicine and surgery, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham (from 1968 to 1969)
- University of Birmingham Medical School (to 1968)
Research interests
- Clinical neurodevelopmental research, particularly in newborn babies
Selected publications
- Wilkinson AR, Ahluwalia J, Cole A, Crawford D, Fyle J, Gordon A, Moorcraft J, Pollard T, Roberts T. The Management of Babies born Extremely Preterm at less than 26 weeks of gestation. A Framework for Clinical Practice at the time of Birth
- Wilkinson AR, Haines L, Head K, Fielder AR. UK Retinopathy of Prematurity Guideline. Early Human Development 2008, 84: 71-74
- Birtles DB, Braddick OJ, Wattam-Bell J, Atkinson J, Wilkinson AR. Orientation and motion-specific visual cortex responses in infants born preterm . NeuroReports.2007, 18: 1975-1979
- Bodeau-Livinec F, Surman G, Kaminski M, Wilkinson AR. Recent trends in visual impairment and blindness in the UK. Arch Dis Child. 2007, 92: 1099-1104
- Wilkinson AR, Brosi DM, Jiang ZD. Functional impairment of the brainstem in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Pediatrics. 2007, 120: 362-371
- Wood NS, Costeloe K, Gibson AT, Hennessy EM, Marlow N, Wilkinson AR. EPICure Study Group. The EPICure study: associations and antecedents of neurological and developmental disability at 30 months of age following extremely preterm birth.
- Lucey JF, Rowan CA, Shiono P, Wilkinson AR, Kilpatrick S, Payne NR, Horbar J, Carpenter J, Rogowski J, Soll RF. Fetal infants: the fate of 4172 infants with birth weights of 401 to 500 grams - the Vermont Oxford Network experience (1996-2
- de Silva GDI, Justice A, Wilkinson AR, Buttery J, Herbert M, Day N.P.J, Peacock S.J. Genetic Population Structure of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Associated with Carriage and Disease in Preterm Infants. Clinical Infectious Disease 200
- Wood N. S, Marlow N, Costeloe K, Gibson A.T, Wilkinson AR. Neurologic and developmental disability after extremely preterm birth New Engl J Med 2000, 343: 378-84
Teaching and supervision
- Medical students
- Advanced nurses
- Graduate research supervision
Other professional memberships and roles
- Trustee, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Funds (from 2005)
- Trustee, Helen and Douglas House Hospice, Oxford (from 2003)
- President, Neonatal Society (from 2003 to 2006)
- President, British Association of Perinatal Medicine (from 1992 to 2002)
- 1942 Club. Chair, Academic Board RCPCH (from 1988 to 1989)
- Knight, 1st Class, Order of the White Rose of Finland
Research awards and grants
- Research supported by Wellcome Trust, WellChild, Deafness Research UK