Summary
James is a paediatric trainee doctor who is currently working as an Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Section of Neonatal Medicine at Imperial College London. His research is focused on the outcomes of neonatal care and which outcomes matter most to former patients, parents, healthcare workers and researchers.
During his PhD he led the Core Outcomes In Neonatology (COIN) project and identified a neonatal core outcomes set. More recently he led the creation of a European Standard of Care for Newborn Health for Quality Indicators and is now on the Chair Committee for this project. He also participated in the identification of an ICHOM Standard Set for Preterm and Hospitalized Newborn Health. Having grown up in Jersey, James studied medicine at Cambridge and completed his Foundation training in South Shields before coming to London to train in Paediatrics.
COIN has identified the outcomes of neonatal care that matter most to patients, parents and clinical staff to help improve current data collection and guide future research. Future work to identify standardised outcome measures and timepoints will ensure that the journey of each sick baby informs improvements in future neonatal care. Further details of this work can be found here.
Publications
Journals
Devane D, Ariff S, Battin MR, et al. , 2024, Optimising research for neonates with encephalopathy: the role of core outcome sets., Pediatr Res, Vol:95, Pages:869-870
Quirke FA, Ariff S, Battin MR, et al. , 2024, Cohesion: a core outcome set for the treatment of neonatal encephalopathy, Pediatric Research, Vol:95, ISSN:0031-3998, Pages:922-930
Evans K, Battersby C, Boardman JP, et al. , 2023, National priority setting partnership using a Delphi consensus process to develop neonatal research questions suitable for practice-changing randomised trials in the UK, Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition, Vol:108, ISSN:1359-2998, Pages:569-574
Baba A, Webbe J, Butcher N, et al. , 2023, Heterogeneity and gaps in reporting primary outcomes from neonatal trials, Pediatrics, Vol:152, ISSN:0031-4005
Webbe J, Baba A, Butcher N, et al. , 2023, Strengthening reporting of neonatal trials, Pediatrics, Vol:152, ISSN:0031-4005