karen luyt

Professor Karen Luyt

NCMD Director / Consultant and Professor of Neonatal Medicine, University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust

Professor Karen Luyt is Director of the National Child Mortality Database. She read medicine in South Africa and specialised in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) in the UK.

She has a clinical academic post, based in the Neonatal Intensive Care unit at St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol. In her academic position as Professor of Neonatal Medicine, University of Bristol, her research has focussed on optimising health outcomes in newborn infants. She was lead for neonatal mortality review for UHBristol NHS Trust since 2010 and the academic lead for child death review (University of Bristol) since 2014.

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