Dr Robert Coombs
Consultant Neonatologist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield.

Robert qualified from the London Hospital Medical College in 1979 with an intercollated first class honours in physiology. He was a lecturer in paediatric gastroenterology and neonatology at the University of Birmingham from 1986-1991. Robert has a long standing interest in neonatal nutrition and its relationship to necrotising enterocolitis. His research interests include using Doppler ultrasound to investigate intestinal blood flow and manometric studies of intestinal motility.