# Neena Modi

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{{short description|President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2017}}

{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Neena Modi
| image             = Neena Modi in "Microbirth".jpg
| caption           = Modi in ''Microbirth'', 2015 documentary
| alma_mater        = [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh)
| workplaces        = [Imperial College London](/source/Imperial_College_London) <br /> [Chelsea and Westminster Hospital](/source/Chelsea_and_Westminster_Hospital)
}}

'''Neena Modi''' is a British physician and professor of [neonatal medicine](/source/Neonatology) at [Imperial College London](/source/Imperial_College_London). She is the current president of the UK [Medical Women's Federation](/source/Medical_Women's_Federation), and past president of the [Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health](/source/Royal_College_of_Paediatrics_and_Child_Health), serving in this role from April 2015 to April 2018. She is one of only four women to ever hold this position.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/women-medicine-neena-modi-and-june-lloyd|title=Women in medicine: Neena Modi and June Lloyd|date=2017-10-03|work=RCP London|access-date=2018-02-03}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Modi describes herself as coming from a multicultural background.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Neena Modi is appointed new chairwoman of BMJ ethics committee |url=http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b3787 |journal=[BMJ](/source/BMJ) |volume=339 |first=Zosia |last=Kmietowicz | name-list-style = vanc |article-number=b3787 |date=16 September 2009 |doi=10.1136/bmj.b3787|s2cid=71875100 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> She qualified from the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh). She undertook specialist training in neonatal medicine at [University College Hospital London](/source/University_College_Hospital), and the [University of Liverpool](/source/University_of_Liverpool).<ref>{{cite web|title=Annual Neonatal Conference|url=http://www.neonatalconference.co.uk/speakers.html|access-date=18 May 2015}}</ref>

== Research and career ==
Modi is a Professor of [Neonatal Medicine](/source/Neonatology) at [Imperial College London](/source/Imperial_College_London). She is also an Honorary Consultant in Neonatal Medicine in [Chelsea and Westminster](/source/Chelsea_and_Westminster_Hospital) NHS Foundation Trust. Moodi advocates for child health, gender equity, and equitable access to healthcare. She has called for lowering of the [voting age](/source/voting_age) to 16 years, and for the UK [National Health Service](/source/National_Health_Service) to be restored as a primarily publicly funded and publicly delivered healthcare service.

A practicing clinician and academic lead of a multidisciplinary neonatal research program, Modi's research interests include nutritional and other perinatal determinants of lifelong metabolic health, [medical ethics](/source/medical_ethics), and child health.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/n.modi/research.html|title=Research - Professor Neena Modi|website=www.imperial.ac.uk|access-date=2018-02-03}}</ref> In 2007 she led the establishment of the prize-winning UK National Neonatal Research Database. She now directs this national and international resource that contains detailed information on all admissions to neonatal units in England, Wales and Scotland, for research, quality improvement, audit, and surveillance. In 2012, she established the UK Neonatal Collaborative, with the aim of developing the use of clinical electronic data to support neonatal services and research. She directs the "Neonatal Update: the Science of Newborn Care" an annual weeklong international academic meeting held in London. 

== Academic service ==
During her career she has served, among many other roles, as President of the [UK Neonatal Society](/source/Neonatal_Society) (2012-15), President of the Academic Paediatrics Association of Great Britain and Ireland (2014-15), chair of [the British Medical Journal](/source/The_BMJ) Ethics Committee [3] (2009-2015),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/centre-reproductive-health/third-european-spontaneous-preterm-birth-congress/speakers/professor-neena-modi|title=Professor Neena Modi|work=The University of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-02-03|language=en}}</ref> and Chair of the NHS England Infant, Children and Young People Patient Safety Expert Group (2010-2014). During her tenure as Vice President for Research at the [Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health](/source/Royal_College_of_Paediatrics_and_Child_Health) (2009-2014), she was lead author on the RCPCH Turning the Tide report highlighting the need to strengthen child health research in the UK.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Modi|first=Neena|date=2011-10-01|title='Turning the Tide': increasing and strengthening child health research|url=https://adc.bmj.com/content/96/10/988.1|journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood|language=en|volume=96|issue=10|page=988|doi=10.1136/archdischild-2011-300721|issn=0003-9888|pmid=21862522|s2cid=9811368|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Turning the Tide|url=http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/harnessing-the-power-of-child-health-research|website=RCPCH|access-date=18 May 2015}}</ref>

She was elected as President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in December 2014, taking up the role on 29 April 2015. Her 3-year term ended in 2018. She is a fellow of the [Royal College of Physicians](/source/Royal_College_of_Physicians) (London), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and [Academy of Medical Sciences](/source/Academy_of_Medical_Sciences_(United_Kingdom)). She was awarded honorary fellowship of the [Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine](/source/Faculty_of_Pharmaceutical_Medicine) in 2017 and the [British Association of Perinatal Medicine](/source/British_Association_of_Perinatal_Medicine) in 2015. She was elected a Fellow of the [Academy of Medical Sciences](/source/Academy_of_Medical_Sciences_(United_Kingdom)) in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-13 |title=50 leading biomedical and health scientists elected to the prestigious Academy Fellowship |url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/50-leading-biomedical-and-health-scientists-elected-to-the-prestigious-academy-fellowship |access-date=2026-05-09 |website=Academy of Medical Sciences}}</ref>

In 2021, Modi became President of the [British Medical Association](/source/British_Medical_Association).

== Personal life ==
Modi is married and has two children.{{cn|date=July 2020}}

== Publications ==
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* {{cite journal | vauthors = Mills L, Modi N | title = Clinician enteral feeding preferences for very preterm babies in the UK | journal = Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition | volume = 100 | issue = 4 | pages = F372–3 | date = July 2015 | pmid = 25956669 | doi = 10.1136/archdischild-2014-308110 | s2cid = 29900942 }}
* {{cite journal | vauthors = Parkinson JR, Hyde MJ, Gale C, Santhakumaran S, Modi N | title = Preterm birth and the metabolic syndrome in adult life: a systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 131 | issue = 4 | pages = e1240–63 | date = April 2013 | pmid = 23509172 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2012-2177 | s2cid = 2021871 }}
* {{cite journal | vauthors = Battersby C, Santhalingam T, Costeloe K, Modi N | title = Incidence of neonatal necrotising enterocolitis in high-income countries: a systematic review | journal = Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition | volume = 103 | issue = 2 | pages = F182–F189 | date = January 2018 | pmid = 29317459 | doi = 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313880 | hdl = 10044/1/57073 | s2cid = 206861623 | hdl-access = free }}
* {{cite journal | vauthors = Achana F, Petrou S, Khan K, Gaye A, Modi N | title = A methodological framework for assessing agreement between cost-effectiveness outcomes estimated using alternative sources of data on treatment costs and effects for trial-based economic evaluations | journal = The European Journal of Health Economics | volume = 19 | issue = 1 | pages = 75–86 | date = January 2018 | pmid = 28180977 | pmc = 5773681 | doi = 10.1007/s10198-017-0868-8 }}
* {{cite journal | vauthors = Modi N, Clark H, Wolfe I, Costello A, Budge H, Goodier R, Hyde MJ, Lumsden D, Prayle A, Roland D | title = A healthy nation: strengthening child health research in the UK | journal = Lancet | volume = 381 | issue = 9860 | pages = 73–87 | date = January 2013 | pmid = 23176802 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61818-2 | s2cid = 205967699 }}
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