Kennedy, Professor Colin
MD FRCP FRCPCH 
Speciality
Paediatric Neurology
Training and Education
Read Medicine and also Psychol and Physiol (BA (Oxon) first class);
Clinical training at Westminster MedSchool (MBBS, London)
SHO jobs at Hammersmith, National Hosp Queen Square, Great Ormond Street Hospital; MRC Research Fellow andHon Reg in Paediatrics at Northwick Park CRC (MD, London);Lecturer and Hon SR in Paediatrics, Southampton; Fellow in Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA; Joint UK Accreditation in Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurology.
Experience
Professor Kennedy has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since 1984.
Set up single handed regional service in 1988 and have had 21 years general paediatric neurological experience in that post; now assisted by 4 colleagues.
Special interest in neuro-oncology.
Key achievements
Significant contributions to literature on encephalitis, management of post-h’rrhagic hydrocephalus of infants, universal newborn screening for permanent deafness, early brain tumour diagnosis, quality of survival following brain tumours. Current collaboration with WHO.
Former president of national specialty group (BPNA)
Current president of European specialty group scientific society (EPNS)
Key awards and prizes
Dr Michael Blacow Award, British Paediatric Association (now the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) - for the best paper at annual scientific meeting
Donald Paterson Prize, BPA (now the RCPCH) for best published paper in preceding 2 years by a Paediatrician in training
Research
The Lancet 1986 i: 989 991; Clin Immun Immunopathol, 1987, 42:218 228;
The Lancet, 1998, 352:433-40; The Lancet, 1998, 352:1957-1964;
The Lancet 2000, 356; 1903-04; Pediatrics 2001,108: 597-607;
The Lancet, 2004, 364: 1773-78; The Lancet, 2005, 366: 660-662;
The Lancet Neurol 2005, 4: 712-17; Pediatrics 2006, 117: 1101-12;
N Engl J Med, 2006, 354: 2131-41; Pediatrics, 2007,120 e694-e701;
The Lancet Oncol, 2007, 8: 685-695; Pediatrics, 2007, 120: 1044-52;
J Clin Oncol, 2007, 25: 4239-4245; Arch Dis Child, 2009, in press.