Elaine Boyle is Professor of Neonatal Medicine at the University of Leicester, UK and Honorary Consultant Neonatologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. She initially trained and worked as a nurse before changing direction to study medicine at the University of Sheffield, qualifying as a doctor in 1993. She completed postgraduate training in paediatrics in Sheffield and Birmingham. Before taking up her post in Leicester in 2006, she trained in academic neonatal medicine in Edinburgh, UK McMaster University, Canada.

The major focus of Elaine’s research is the effects of gestational age at birth on neonatal and childhood outcomes, and in particular the effects of moderate-late preterm and early term birth. She was the lead for LAMBS - Late And Moderately preterm Birth Studies, the first large population-based studies in the UK focused on this group of babies and she led the development of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine Framework for the Early Care of Moderate to Late Preterm Infants. She is Chief Investigator for SurfON, a large UK multicentre trial of the use of early surfactant versus expectant management in late preterm and early term infants with respiratory distress.