Neil McIntosh (born 1942) is a British and Scottish paediatrician and neonatologist who was most notable for being the leading writer of a pivotal article that defined standards of ethical behaviour in paediatrics, including withdrawal of newborn intensive care.
[1] McIntosh is an emeritus professor of Neonatology and Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh.
[2] During McIntosh's career he researched mineral metabolism in preterm infants, computerised acquisition of physiological data in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing.
[2] In 1978 McIntosh was appointed as a senior lecturer and consultant paediatric neonatologist at St George's Hospital, a position he held until 1987.
[2] In 1987 he was elected to the Edward Clarke Chair of Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh,[3] a position McIntosh held until 2007.