Conversations in Fetal Medicine

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the fourth episode of season six, in conversation with Professor Fionnuala McAuliffe.  Prof McAuliffe's bio: Fionnuala McAuliffe is a Full Academic Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at National Maternity Hospital Dublin, Head of Women’s and Child’s Health at University College Dublin. She is Director of the UCD Perinatal Research Centre, a multidisciplinary r...

Send a text Welcome to the third episode of season six, in conversation with Professor Cathy Cluver. Professor Cluver's Bio: Professor Cathy Cluver is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine subspecialist and clinician researcher. She founded and continues to lead the Preeclampsia Research Unit at Stellenbosch University ( www.preeclampsiaresearch.org ). This Research Unit is a multidisciplinary multinatio...

Send a text Welcome to the second episode of season six, in conversation with Professor Tom Shakespeare.  Professor Shakespeare's Bio: Tom Shakespeare is a sociologist and bioethicist. He is Professor of Disability Research at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, having worked at several UK universities and WHO. He is a former member of Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Arts Counci...

Send a text Welcome to the first episode of season six, in conversation with Dr Emma Ferriman. Dr Ferriman's Bio: Dr Ferriman graduated from Liverpool Medical School in 1990. From 2001 to 2016, she served as a Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine in Leeds, before taking up her current role in Sheffield in 2016.  She currently holds the role of President of the British Maternal and Feta...

Send a text Welcome to the fifth episode of season five, in conversation with Professor Pranav Pandya.  Professor Pandya's Bio: Professor Pranav P Pandya BSc MBBS MD FRCOG Consultant in Fetal Medicine Pranav Pandya is a Professor in Fetal Medicine at University College London. He is currently the Director and Clinical Lead of Fetal Medicine services at University College London Hospitals. Pra...

Send a text Welcome to the fourth episode of season five, in conversation with Professor Eduard Gratacós.  Professor Gratacós' Bio  Prof. Eduard Gratacós is director and professor at BCNatal, a referral clinical and research center in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University Hospitals Clinic and Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona.  Among other international positions, he has been Board and Scient...

Send a text Welcome to the third episode of season five, in conversation with Professor Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman.  Professor Gyamfi-Bannerman's Bio Dr. Gyamfi-Bannerman is Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UC San Diego Health, joining the faculty at UCSD in 2021. She holds the Samuel SC Yen Endowed Chair at UCSD and is a Professor with Tenure. She...

Send a text Welcome to the second episode of season five, in conversation with Dr Fionnuala Mone.  Fionnuala is a clinical academic in maternal fetal medicine based at Queen's University Belfast. She is dual qualified in genomics and fetal medicine and is an international expert in prenatal genomics acting as the genetics editor for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as an invite...

Send a text Welcome to the first episode of season five of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, in conversation with Dr Elspeth Whitby Dr Whitby is a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield and an Honorary consultant at Sheffield teaching hospitals NHS trust. Her areas of interest are based around obstetric imaging with MRI including the fetus, the placenta and post mortem imaging. She runs a n...

Send a text Welcome to a special bonus episode! Recorded live at the RCOG Annual Academic Meeting in January 2024, organised by the Blair Bell Research Society. Join us in conversation with Professor Lucilla Poston, co-hosted with the fabulous Dr Neil Ryan (a clinical academic and subspecialty trainee in gynae-oncology). This is also a chance to celebrate the RCOG Annual Academic Meeting and learn...

Send a text Welcome to the fifth episode of season four of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, in conversation with Professor Lawrence Impey. Professor Impey's bio: Qualification MBBS 1988 from the Middlesex Undergraduate degree 1985 in Oxford Trained in London, Dublin and Oxford. MRCOG 1993, FRCOG 2007 Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine in Oxford since 2001. Full time NHS clinical cons...

Send a text Welcome to the fourth episode of season four of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, in conversation with Stephanie Ernst, founder of the charity TAPS Support. Stephanie's bio: Stephanie Ernst: Twin mum, TAPS nerd, expert patient and Australian in the Netherlands (self identified as a clogaroo).  After delivering monochorionic twins at 31 weeks,, Stephanie struggled to find quality in...

Send a text Welcome to the third episode of season four of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we speak to Professor Jenny Myers. Professor Myers' bio: Jenny is Professor of Obstetrics & Maternal Medicine within the Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester and Consultant Obstetrician, St Mary’s Hospital. As an obstetrician, Jenny is part of the Maternal Med...

Send a text Welcome to the second episode of season four of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we speak to Professor Katia Bilardo. Professor Bilardo's bio: Katia Bilardo is an Italian gynaecologist, Professore, who practised in The Netherlands (University of Amsterdam and Groningen). She trained at King's College Hospital with Prof. Stuart Campbell and Prof. Kypros Nicolaides in the...

Send a text Welcome to season four of Conversations in Fetal Medicine! In this episode we speak to Professor Zarko Alfirevic, a legend of evidence-based obstetrics and fetal medicine.  Professor Alfirevic's bio: Zarko Alfirevic is Professor Emeritus at the University of Liverpool where he was Professor of Fetal and Maternal Medicine, Head of Department of Women’s and Children’s Health and Ass...

Send a text Welcome to the sixth episode of season three of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we speak to Sally Boxall, now a specialist nurse in Fetal Medicine in Southampton but consultant nurse in that unit for more than two decades until she semi-retired. It's the last one for this season, but we will definitely be back for more in a few months. Keep an eye out for a special bonus ep...

Send a text Welcome to the fifth episode of season three of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we speak to Dr Graham Tydeman. Dr Tydeman's bio: Graham Tydeman is a consultant obstetrician with subspecialty interest in fetal medicine who retired a few years ago but has found he’s not very good at it. He worked full-time in Fife for over 20 years and now focusses on medical innovation and i...

Send a text Welcome to the fourth episode of season three of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we talk to Professor Sue Walker. Professor Walker's bio: Professor Sue Walker AO, FAAHMS is the Head of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health at The University of Melbourne since 2016 and is also the Chair of the Division of Perinatal Medicine and Clinical Director, Mater...

Send a text Welcome to the third episode of season three of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we talk to Hayley Manning, host of the brilliant podcast Time To Talk TFMR (Termination for Medical Reasons). Hayley Manning: Hayley is a counsellor and therapist, who after her own termination for medical reasons (TFMR), went on to create the podcast Time To Talk TFMR to explore the issues surroundi...

Send a text Welcome to the second episode of season three of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we talk to Professor John Kingdom. Prof Kingdom's bio: John Kingdom is a consultant in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics at Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada, where he established their Placenta Clinic in 1999 with his career-long friend Rory Windrim. English by birth, Jo...

Send a text Welcome to the first episode of season three of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we talk to Professor Asma Khalil. See below for her bio. We have not included any patient identifiable information, and this podcast is intended for professional education rather than patient information (although welcome anyone interested in the field to listen). Please get in touch with feedback or...

Send a text Welcome to the sixth episode of season two of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we talk to Mr David Howe. It's the last episode of this season, but not the end of the podcast - season three is already being planned!  David is a recently retired consultant obstetrician who specialised in complex fetal problems and prenatal diagnosis. Training and education: Undergraduate train...

Send a text Welcome to the fifth episode of season two of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we talk to Dr David Coggin-Carr.   David is a UK+US dual-certified obstetrician, subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine, and early career clinical academic with additional training and expertise in Integrative Medicine and medical acupuncture. He currently practices full-spectrum MFM in both Verm...

Send a text Welcome to the fourth episode of season two of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we talk to Dr Surabhi Nanda.  Dr Surabhi Nanda is a consultant in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas Hospital and an honorary senior lecturer at King's College London. She leads the multiple pregnancy and obstetric neurology service at St Thomas, as well as looking after women wi...

Send a text Welcome to the third episode of season two of Conversations in Fetal Medicine, where we talk to Professor Jan Deprest.  Jan Deprest is a leading international fetal surgeon who works two days a week at UCLH as a consultant and at UCL as a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology. At UCL he works in the Institute for Women's Health and the Translational Imaging Group. For the rest o...