Dr Julie-Clare Becher

Julie-Clare Becher is a Consultant Neonatologist at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and a Senior Lecturer in Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh. There, until 2013, she directed a programme of research into the aetiologies of perinatal brain injury. She also led the UK population study of ‘Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse’ and is a co-investigator on the current UK population study of 'Outcome of Infants with a 10 minute Apgar of 0'.  

She is the Chair of the Scottish Cooling Group, and led the Scottish National Guideline Group on Therapeutic Hypothermia and co-authored the British Association of Perinatal Medicine guideline on same. She held the post of Quality Lead for the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM) for 4 years till 2021 and chaired the BAPM ‘Building Successful Perinatal Teams’ resource group . She has represented the BAPM at the Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme and National Neonatal Audit Programme. She is a member of the national Obstetric Emergency Checklist group. She has previously been a Neonatal Advisor to the Scottish Patient Safety Programme and the Scottish Child Death Review Group. She chaired the BAPM Framework for Practice on Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse and co-authored the BAPM Framework on Baby Falls and Drops and the NNAP Annual Reports since 2017.

She is a fully accredited instructor of the Newborn Life Support Course and has authored book chapters on Neonatal Resuscitation and Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse.

Her clinical area of interests are Neonatal neurology and preterm optimisation and all of her clinical practice is spent caring for newborn infants.

She is accredited with The Academy of Experts, 2019 and registered with the Information Commissioner's Office.

University of Edinburgh

Inspire Medilaw 2019

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, British Association of Perinatal Medicine, Neonatal Society