Professor of Paediatric Nutrition, Institute of Child Health UCL London (UK), Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Atul Singhal is Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity Professor of Paediatric Nutrition at University College London, Institute of Child Health, and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital. 

He graduated in Medicine from the Royal Free Hospital, London in 1986 and has been a consultant in paediatrics since 1998. Previously, he was the Director and Deputy Director of the Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health.    He has broad interests in paediatric nutrition, but his current research focuses on the influence of early nutrition for long-term health, the effects of nutritional interventions to reduce long-term cardiovascular risk, and nutritional interventions for obesity.