Rate My Professor Anne Greenough

Professor Anne Greenough is Professor of Neonatology and Clinical Respiratory Physiology in the Department of Women and Children’s Health, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London. She holds the degrees of MB BS, MD, and DCH. Her research specializations encompass the early origins of chronic respiratory disease, factors influencing antenatal lung growth including pulmonary hypoplasia in neonatal deaths, optimisation of respiratory support for preterm infants, determinants of sudden infant death syndrome, and prevention and treatment of chronic lung disease particularly in relation to respiratory syncytial virus infections, sickle cell disease, and liver disorders. Greenough leads the Paediatric Respiratory Physiology Group, which focuses on developing antenatal assessment methods to predict chronic respiratory morbidity in neonates, evaluating the role of airway size and genetic predisposition in long-term outcomes following RSV infection in premature infants, and creating lung function tests suitable for all ages including those in intensive care to better manage paediatric asthma and assess impacts of chronic conditions on respiratory function.

Throughout her career, Greenough has served in prominent roles such as Director of Education and Training at King’s Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre, Board Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Chair of the National Institute for Health Research Paediatrics (non-medicines) Specialty Group, and Vice President for Science and Research at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2014 to 2019. She is Chair of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health and a member of the International Experts Group. Her accolades include the James Spence Medal and Catherine Chisholm Lecture from the RCPCH in 2017, George N Papanicolaou Humanitarian Award in 2017, Erich Saling Prize in Perinatology in 2009, Fellowship of the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine in 2010, and Fellowship of King’s College London in 2009. With 618 research outputs amassing 15,646 citations, key publications feature 'Hydrocortisone to Prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia' in the New England Journal of Medicine (2022), 'Standardized postnatal management of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia in Europe: the CDH EURO consortium consensus' (2015), 'Changes in the use of humidified high flow nasal cannula' (2016), and her book 'Respiratory Measurements in Preterm Ventilated Infants' (1985). Her contributions have profoundly shaped neonatal respiratory care practices, paediatric research policy, and international standards in perinatal medicine.