Hall, Dr Michael

MB ChB, FRCPH,FRCP,DCH

Speciality

General Paediatrics

Sub-speciality

Neonatology

Training and Education

Training posts in Aberdeen, Newcastle, London, Southampton and Toronto

Experience

Dr Hall has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since 1983. 

Consultant paediatrician and neonatologist. Previous Clinical Director of Child Health.  Currently Lead Consultant Neonatologist at Princess Anne Hospital. Member of national committes relating to postgraduate education and paediatric nursing.  Currently Chair of the national Part 1 MRCPCH Examination Board.

Key achievements

Sustained enjoyment of consultant roles in both neonatology and outpatient general paediatrics.  Founding medical coordinator of the country’s first training course for advanced neonatal nurse practitioners.  Section editor of “MasterCourse in Paediatrics” and co-editor of textbook accepted for publication to be entitled “A Scientific Basis for Perinatal Practice”.

Research

Hall MA, Cole CB, Smith SL, Fuller R, Rolles CJ.   Factors influencing the presence of faecal lactobacilli in early infancy.  Archives of Disease in Childhood 1990;65:185-188.

Austin NC, Pairaudeau PW, Hames TK, Hall MA.  Regional cerebral blood flow velocity changes following indomethacin infusion in premature infants.  Archives of Disease in Childhood 1992;67(4):851-854.

Millar MR, Bacon C, Smith SL, Walker V, Hall MA.  Enteral feeding of premature infants with Lactobacillus GG.  Archives of Disease in Childhood 1993;69:483-487.

Hall MA, Cuttini M, Flemmer AW, Greisen G, Marlow N, Schulze A, Smith S, Valls-i-Soler A, Truffert P, Conole G, de Laat M.European online postgraduate educational programme in neonatology—the way forward? European Journal of Pediatrics 2008.  Volume 168, Issue4 (2009), Page 449

Textbook
A Foundation for Neonatal Practice
Hall MA, Noble AR, Smith SL.
In Press (2009):  Radcliffe Publishers.