Role:
Governance lead
Special interest:
Neonatal simulation, difficult airway
Dr Cox qualified as a doctor from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London in 1999. He started his paediatric training almost immediately as a house officer at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, and then on the Manchester junior doctor paediatric rotation in Booth Hall Children’s Hospital, and St Mary’s neonatal intensive care unit where he first
developed his interest in neonatal medicine. In 2004 he briefly left the UK and worked as a neonatal registrar on the large tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in Perth, Western Australia for 6 months to gain extra experience prior to returning to the northwest and being appointed as a GRID trainee.After completion of his specialist training he was appointed Consultant Neonatologist at St Mary’s Hospital Manchester, and was subsequently appointed consultant neonatologist at the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre in Burnley in 2011.
His main roles and interests within the department are risk management, information technology (he helped introduce one of the first fully integrated neonatal electronic patient record systems in the UK to Burnley), infant resuscitation and resuscitation training. He runs regular simulation training days for neonatal staff and paediatric doctors in training. He has also been involved in fundraising for NICU, has presented at regional and international academic meetings on simulation training and resuscitation, has represented the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre in the national media, and supports junior doctors and advanced nurse practitioners throughout their training.