Neil McIntosh

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. McIntosh is an emeritus professor of Neonatology and Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh. During McIntosh's career he researched mineral metabolism in preterm infants, computerised acquisition of physiological data in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing.

Life McIntosh took his postgraduate clinical training in University College Hospital, London in 1968. Mcintosh was Senior Registrar in Paediatrics at University College Hospital, London, from 1972 to 1977.