Cheryl Battersby is a Clinical Senior Lecturer Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Neonatologist at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Hospital Foundation Trust.

She is also Deputy Chair at Informatics for Quality Committee at Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Her research interests centre on using routine data to improve the health and long-term wellbeing of babies born sick or premature.

For her PhD, she conducted the first prospective UK  epidemiological study on Necrotising Enterocolitis using data extracted from electronic neonatal records, held on the National Neonatal Research Database.