Mr Nigel Hall is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton and Consultant Paediatric and Neonatal Surgeon at Southampton Children’s Hospital.

Nigel Hall graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1997. He trained in General and Specialist Paediatric Surgery at Southampton Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. 

During his training he was also Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellow at University College London and completed a PhD at the University of London.Mr Hall leads an active research program in children's surgical conditions with a specific focus on necrotising enterocolitis, other congenital gastrointestinal anomalies and the design and conduct of randomised trials on paediatric surgery. 

His team focusses on understanding the pathophysiology of necrotising enterocolitis and the. The development of novel therapies and other interventions aiming to improve short and long term outcome.Nationally he sits on the research committee of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and is the BAPS/RCSEng multicentre collaborative research lead for Paediatric Surgery. He is also Chair of the Network Office of the European Paediatric Surgeons Association.