Prof Colin Morgan qualified from the University of Nottingham in 1989 and specialised in paediatrics the following year. He subsequently subspecialised in neonatal medicine and began his longstanding interest in neonatal nutrition and metabolism by studying neonatal long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid absorption in preterm and term infants. In 1999, he became Senior Lecturer in Neonatal Medicine at University College London (Royal Free Hospital) and moved to the Liverpool Women’s Hospital as Consultant Neonatologist in 2004. He became an Honorary Clinical Professor (University of Liverpool) in 2019 and Director of Starting Well, a multi-institutional collaborative for early years research across all health/education providers in Merseyside, which started in March 2019 As well as neonatal nutrition, his previous research interests included continuous physiological monitoring (blood gas status and glucose control). His current research interests focus on neonatal parenteral nutrition (PN) formulations and the impact of early neonatal nutrition on postnatal metabolic adaptation, inflammatory/immune pathways, brain growth and neurodevelopment outcomes in very preterm infants. His team of research fellows has expanded to include interests in body composition, bone mineralisation and glucose metabolism. He led the UK quality improvement programme for neonatal PN and has sat on neonatal PN guideline committees for the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (2016) and the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (2017-20) Prof Morgan has had leadership roles in postgraduate medical education and advanced nursing practice for nearly 20 years. He has been Head of School (Paediatrics) for North West England for 11 years, one of the largest regional postgraduate training programme in the UK. He is a national leader in Advanced Clinical Practice, overseeing the launch of a UK Paediatrics and Child Health Curriculum Framework in December 2023. Prof Morgan was the workforce strategy lead for the Cheshire and Mersey Women’s and Children’s Partnership until 2020, a regional programme to develop new models of clinical care focusing on the primary/secondary care interface. This complemented his national strategic role as UK Neonatal Clinical Reference Group lead for education and research (2013-19). He continues to be a regular speaker at regional and national workforce strategy meetings for all health professionals working with children.