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Professor Neena Modi elected Honorary Fellow of Girton College

Professor Neena Modi with Dr Elisabeth Kendall in Eliza Baker Court at Girton College, University of Cambridge

We are delighted to announce the election of Professor Neena Modi as an Honorary Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. 

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Professor Modi is a trailblazing medical leader and clinical scientist specialising in neonatal medicine. She is Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Vice-Dean (International) in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London and Consultant in Neonatal Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and was previously a Council member (2020-23). 

An innovator and interdisciplinary thinker, Neena heads the multidisciplinary Neonatal Medicine Research Group, and the National Neonatal Research Database, a UK Information Asset, at the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit, at Imperial. She is also the lead for the "Pregnancy and Prematurity" theme of the Imperial Biomedical Research Centre. Neena’s clinical work and pioneering insight is nationally and internationally renowned. She has been president of the British Medical Association, UK Medical Women's Federation, and UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She has held by election, the three leading national children’s research positions in the UK, President of the Neonatal Society, President of the Academic Paediatrics Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Vice-President for Science and Research. 

A pioneer in the field of young people’s health, Neena led the establishment of a Child Health Research Collaboration and Children's Research Fellowship Fund. She has also been responsible for national reports on children’s biomedical research and child health in the UK and is an active campaigner in relation to UK health services, environmental issues and child refugees. As a trustee of the charities TheirWorld and Action Cerebral Palsy, and a campaigner for the retention of the National Health Service as a primarily publicly funded, publicly delivered healthcare system, Neena has striven for providing the best care for all children in the UK regardless of their level of need.

Chiara Falls performing with Dr Martin Ennis during the ceremony of admission for the Honorary Fellowship of Professor Neena Modi at Girton College, University of Cambridge

The celebrations opened with an ‘in conversation’ event with the Mistress, Dr Elisabeth Kendall and continued with the official Ceremony of Admission, which featured music from Director of Music, Dr Martin Ennis performing alongside Girton students Lindsey Lim, Chiara Falls, and Charlotte Howdle.

  • The 'In conversation' will be available on our YouTube in due course.
  • More photographs from the event will be on our Flickr shortly.