Dr Bax has been a paediatrician for over 40 years. He was one of the pioneers of community paediatrics and brought a scholarly approach to the subject. He has inspired many paediatricians and has developed an active and productive research group.
Dr Bax was for many years senior editor of the Mac Keith Press, publishers of the
journal of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology and the book series 'Clinics
in Developmental Medicine'. Until recently he was chairperson of the European Academy for Childhood Disibility (EACD) and is currently president of The Society
for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes (SSBP).
His most recent research projects are the Multicentre Cerebral Palsy Study and
a study of Autism and Epilepsy. Papers have been published on these projects.
| 1962 |
Senior House Officer, St George’s Hospital Paediatric Unit |
| 1962 |
House Physician to Dr Arnold Bloom, Whittington Hospital |
| 1963 |
Personal Assistant to Dr Mac Keith, Guy's Hospital Department of Paediatrics |
| 1963 |
Assistant Editor, The Mac Keith Press (Developmental Medicine and Child
Neurology Journal & Red Books) |
| 1965 |
Part time lecturer, Department of Special Education, Institute of Education,
London |
| 1966 |
Research Interviewer for Neuropsychiatric Study on the Isle of Wight |
| 1968-1974 |
Senior Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, Guy’s Hospital: Paediatrician in
Charge Salamon's Centre. |
| 1974-1982 |
Research Community Paediatrician, Thomas Coram Research Unit |
| 1982 - 1985 |
Medical Director, Community Paediatric Research Unit, St Mary’s Hospital
Medical School |
| 1982 - 1993 |
Consultant Paediatrician, Thomas Coram Adoption Project |
| 1984 – 2003 |
Director of Community Paediatric Research Unit, Charing Cross & Westminster
Medical School (later Imperial College Faculty of Medicine) |
| 1978-2005 |
Senior Editor (Mac Keith Press) Developmental MedicineAnd Child Neurology:
Clinics in Developmental Medicine |
| 1963 |
Research Interviewer for neuropsychiatric study on the Isle of Wight |
| 1968-1973 |
School Entry Study on the Isle of Wight with Kingsley Whitmore and William Yule
(5 year follow up studies) 1st Publication Bax & Whitemore (Lancet) many
subsequent publications resulting from this study |
| 1971-1973 |
Study of School Health in Deptford (with Kingsley Whitemore, funded by the
London Research Centre |
| 1973-1984 |
Community Paediatrician to Thomas Coram Research Unit and St Mary’s Hospital
Medical School
Collaborative Study with Professor Jack Tizzard, Peter Moss and Ian Plewis on
Education, Health and Social Needs of Pre-School Children and their Families.
Report summarised in Child Development and Child Health (Blackwells). Funded by
the Department of Health
Study of School Health and Psychological Needs in the Queen’s Park area of
Paddington in collaboration with Kingsley Whitmore and Claire Watt (see
bibliography)
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| 1984-1986 |
District Handicap Teams and Child Development Centres. A study undertaken for
the Department of Health with Kingsley Whitmore. (Report published in Archives
of Disease in Childhood plus book on School Health by Kingsley Whitmore) |
| 1986-1992 |
Study of the Health and Social Needs of Young Handicapped Adults with Andrew
Thomas and Diane Smyth. |
| 1992-1995 |
Development and Behaviour in Children with Mucopolysaccharide disorders, funded
by the MPS Society with Gillian Colville |
| 1994-1995 |
Adults with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus, with Maddie Blackburn and
Richard Morgan |
| 1995-1997 |
Study of behavioural profiles in genetic disorders - funded by the Medical Research
Council, with William Yule, Orlee Udwin and Jennifer Dennis |
| 1995-1998 |
Study of Communication Disorders in Young Disabled Adults, with Sarah Barnett,
funded by Scope |
| 1997-on going |
Multicentre Study of Cerebral Palsy (central organising office). Centres,
Tubingen, Dublin, Scotland, Stockholm, Helsinki, Portugal, London |
| 2001-2003 |
Working for UNICEF on a survey of health care for young people with
disabilities in Eastern Europe (Questionnaires and site visits, arranged under
the auspices of UNICEF and the European Academy of Childhood Disability |
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2003 |
Provision of Services for Children with Disabilities in Eastern Europe. Report to
Unicef from EACD Dec 2003. UNICEF Innocenti Research Foundation Florence, Italy
(prepared by M Bax, G O'Brien, O. Hensey, H.Habefelljer. |
| 2003-on going |
Joint director with Professor Christopher Gillberg and Professor Jeremy Turk:
Study on Autism and Epilepsy. |
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Bax MCO (1964) Terminology and Classification of Cerebral palsy. Developmental
Medicine & Child Neurology, Vol.6, No.3 |
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Bax M & Whitmore K (1973) Neurodevelopmental Screening in the School
Entrant Medical Examination. Lancet 2: 368-370 |
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Bax MCO (1976) The Assessment of the Child at School Entry. Pediatrics, Vol.58,
No.3. |
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Bax MCO, Hart H (1976) Health Needs of Pre-school Children, Archives of Dis. In
Childhood, Vol.51, No.11 |
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Hart H, Bax M, Jenkins S (1978) The value of a Developmental History, Dev. Med.
And Child Neurol. 20, 442-452 |
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Jenkins S, Bax M, Hart H (1978) Behaviour Problems in Pre-School Children, J.
Psychol. & Psychiat. Vol.21, pp 5-17. |
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Bax M, (1980) Sleep Disturbance in the Young Child British Medical Journal, 10
May. |
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Bax M, Hart H, Jenkins S (1983) The behaviour, development, and health of the
young child: implications for care. British Med. Journal 286, 1793-1796 |
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Jenkins S, Owen C, Bax M, Hart H (1984) Continuities of Common Behaviour
Problems in Preschool Children. J.Child Psychol.Psychiat. Vol.25, No.1, pp
75-89 |
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Whitmore K, Bax M (1986) The school entry medical examination. Arch. Dis.
Childhood, 61: 807-817 |
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Bax M, Whitmore K (1987) The Medical Examination of Children on Entry to
School. The Results and Use of Neurodevelopmental Assessment. Dev. Med. &
Child Neurol. 29, 40-55. |
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Thomas A, Bax MCO, Smyth D (1987) The Health Care of Physically Handicapped
Young Adults. Z.Kinderchir. 42, Suppl. I: 57-59. |
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Tandy A & Bax M (1987) AIDS: Health Education in Schools. Children and
Society 2, 148-156. |
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Bax MCO, Smyth DPL, Thomas A P (1988), Health Care of Physically Handicapped
Young Adults. Brit. Med. Journal, 23 April, 296, 1153-1155 |
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Whitmore K, Bax M (1988) Screening or Examining? Dev. Med. & Child Neurol.
30, 673-682 |
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Bax MCO, Whitmore K (1991) District Handicap Teams in England 1983-8. Archives
of Disease in Childhood, 66: 656-664 |
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Morgan DJR, Blackburn M, Bax M (1995) Adults with Spina Bifida and/or
Hydrocephalus. Postgrad.Med.J. 71: 17-21. |
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Bax MCO & Colville G (1995) ‘Behaviour in mucopolysaccharide disorders:
Arch. Dis. Childhood 1995, 73: 77-81 |
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Morgan DJR, Blackburn M, Bax MCO ‘Adults with spina bifida and/or
hydrocephalus’. Postgrad. J. Medicine 1995: 71: 17-21 |
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Bax M (1995) ‘Foreward’ in Brazelton T, Nugent J. Neonatal Behavioural
Assessment Scale. 3rd Ed. Clinics in Developmental Medicine (CDM) 137 p.ix. |
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Colville G & Bax MCO ‘Early Presentation in the Mucopolysaccharide
Disorders’. Child Care: Health & Development, Jan 1996, pp 31-36 |
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Colville G & Bax MCO ‘Sleep Problems in Children With San Filippo
Syndrome’, Dev. Med. & Child Neurology. 1996 |
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EACD Supplement - Services for Children with Disabilities in European
Countries. Ed. McConachie H, Smyth D, Bax M, Dev. Med. & Child Neurology,
Suppl.76, 1998 |
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Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood, Ed. Jean Aicardi, Ch. ‘Cerebral
Palsy’ Martin Bax (2nd Ed) 1998 |
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Bax M (1999) Prevention and Management of Specific Learning Disorders in
‘Whitmore K, Hart H, Willems G (Eds) A neurodevelopmental approach to specific
learning disorders. Clinics in Developmental Medicine.
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Whitmore K, Bax M (1999) What do we mean by SLD? An historical perspective. In
Whitmore K, Hart H, Willems G (Eds) A Neurodevelopmental approach to specific
learning disorders. CDM 145. Pp 1-23 |
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Bax M, Whitmore K (1999) Prevention and management of specific learning
disorders in Whitmore K, Hart H, Willems G (Eds) A Neurodevelopmental Approach
to Specific Learning Disorders. CDM 145 pp 280-292 |
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Bax M (2000) Management of children with disabilities and behaviour problems.
In Gillberg C, O’Brien G (Eds) Developmental Disability and Behaviour. CDM 149,
pp. 171-178 |
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Colville G, Bax M (2001) Sleep problems in children with mucopolysaccharidosis.
In: Stores G, Wiggs L ‘Sleep Disturbance in Children and Adolescents with
Disorders of Development: its Significance and Management. CDM 155, 73-78. |
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Bax M et al (2004) Report to UNICEF byThe European Academy of Childhood
Disability: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence Italy. Provision of
Services for Children with Disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe and the
Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States. |
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Bax M, Brown K (2004) The Spectrum of Disorders known as Cerebral Palsy: in
Management of the Motor Disorders of Children with Cerebral Palsy, Ed. Scrutton
D, Damiano D, Mayston M, Clinics in Developmental Medicine No.161, The Mac
Keith Press. |
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Proposed definition and classification of cerebral palsy April 2005. Rosenbaum
P, Dan B, Leviton A, Paneth N, Jacobsson B, Goldstein M, Bax M: The Definition
of Cerebral Palsy: Paneth N, Damiano D, Rosenbaum P, Leviton A, Goldstein M,
Bax M: The Classification of Cerebral Palsy: Developmental Medicine & Child
Neurology 2005, 47: 571-76. |
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Bax M, Tydeman C, Flodmark O (2006) Clinical and MRI Correlates of Cerebral
Palsy. The European Cerebral Palsy Study. JAMA, October 4 2006 – Vol. 296,
No.13 pp1602-08 |
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Jan J, Wasdell MB, Freeman RD, Bax M: Mini Review: Evidence supporting the
use of melatonin in short gestation infants: J. Pineal Res. 2007, 42: 22-27. |
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Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood (3rd Edition). Joint Editor with
Aicardi J and Gillberg C 2009. |
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Visual Impairment due to Damage to the Brain. Ed Gordon Dutton and Martin Bax (in press)
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| North America: |
- Vancouver, University of British Columbia
- Hamilton, Ontario, Child Development Centre
- Montreal Children’s Hospital
- Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
- Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
- Boston Children’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School)(Many times)
- Albert Einstein in New York
- Vanderbilt University/Mehary Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee
- Children’s Hospital, Washington DC
- Lafayette Clinic, Detroit
- Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Clinic, UCLA.
- Meyer Children’s Centre, Omaha Nebraska (2 day course)
- Dept of Paediatrics, Little Rock, Arkansas
- Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital, San Diego, California
- I have been to 38 Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental medicine and frequently presented cases or talks.
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| British Council: |
- I have been to India twice (each time for 3 weeks). I went to Bombay in the 1970s to help set up a course for teachers of Special Needs. Lectured at Medical School.
- Mexico on 2 occasions in 1980s to advise on services for children with disabilities; teaching in Mexico City and Quenervaca.
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| South America: |
- Chile (1996). Teaching 1 week course on Neurodisability. Opening Lecture at Child Neurology Conference.
- Argentina: lecture/course at International Child Neurology Conference and lecture/teaching at Spastics Centre in Buenos Aires.
- Brazil (2001). 2 week course teaching/lecturing at SARAH Hospitals for the Disabled.
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| Hong Kong: |
- 1 week teaching at Caritas Medical Centre. Lecturing at University.
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| Europe: |
- Sweden: lectured at all 7 university medical schools: Copenhagen; Helsinki (many times)
- Tartu, Latvia
- St Petersburg, Moscow
- Bled, Slovenia
- Budapest
- Cracow (3 day course)
- Charles University, Prague (3 day course)
- Basle and Zurich Switzerland
- Tubingen and Mainz Germany
- Paris, Bicetre University
- Brussels, Erasmus University
- Amsterdam
- University of Groningen (many times)
- Lisbon, Gulbenkian Centre for Childhood Disability
- Coimbra, Portugal, guest speaker 3 day meeting)
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| Jerusalem: |
- Lectured twice at university
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| UK: |
- I have lectured at most Universities and Medical Schools.
- I taught regularly at Imperial College and at the School of Community Paediatrics in Edinburgh.
- Recent lecture (May 2007): Open University, Milton Keynes UK, ‘Autism and Epilepsy’
- Many lectures 2006/07 in UK, USA and Europe on the Multicentre Cerebral Palsy Study.
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