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 research centre aiming to improve outcome for mother and baby though clinically relevant pregnancy research. She is a maternal and fetal medicine specialist and Director of the MFM training programme at National Maternity Hospital. She is FIGO Division Director for Maternal and Newborn Health. She is Past Chair of FIGO committee on Impact of Pregnancy on Long- term Health and is a FIGO executive council member. She is lead on FIGO pregnancy obesity and nutrition initiative and FIGO Initiative on impact of pregnancy on long-term health. She is EBCOG council member and Chair of EBCOG Standing Committee for Training and Assessment. She has received over euro 50 million as CoPI/PI. has over 500 peer reviewed publications including national and international pregnancy care guidelines and has supervised over 20 higher research degrees. Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via X, Bluesky or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us 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 multinational research collaboration focussing on understanding and treating preeclampsia. Cathy is currently running her third double blind interventional treatment trial for preterm preeclampsia (PI3 trial), a multicentre preeclampsia prevention trial (APPLE PIE) and studies investigating novel therapeutics to treat preeclampsia (DM199). She is also supervising PhD projects in fetal growth restriction and preterm birth. Cathy obtained her MMed in 2011 cum laude and was awarded both the Daubenton Medal for outstanding results in the Fellowship examination of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the medal for the Best Postgraduate Student for a Structures Masters Qualification at Stellenbosch University. In 2013 she undertook a Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship at Mercy Hospital for Women, in Melbourne Australia. She then completed her subspecialist training in South Africa in 2016. After completing her PhD in 2019, she was appointed as an associate professor. In 2023 she was appointed as a full professor at Stellenbosch University. She is the youngest appointed professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In 2023 she was awarded the Women in Research Award by Stellenbosch University. She has over 100 publications including publications in the Lancet, BMJ, Lancet Global and Cochrane Library. She has published extensively in leading Obstetrics and Gynaecological journals including the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gyneacology. She has also presented invited plenary sessions at many international and national conferences.  Cardiac outflow anomalies chart: https://www.facebook.com/isuog.org/posts/we-are-pleased-to-share-the-fetal-cardiac-outflow-tract-anomalies-chart-with-a-f/10152822749322051/ Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via X, Bluesky or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us 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 Council England. His books include The Sexual Politics of Disability (1996) and Disability Rights and Wrongs (2006) and most recently the novels The Ha-ha (2024) and The Ends (2025). The Nuffield Council on Bioethics report that we discussed is called Non-invasive prenatal testing: ethical issues and can be found via this link: https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publication/non-invasive-prenatal-testing-ethical-issues/ Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via X, Bluesky or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us 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 Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS), Her clinical expertise spans high-risk pregnancies, multile pregnancies, prenatal diagnosis and screening.  In addition to her medical practice, Emma is actively involved in medicolegal work, serving as an adviser to the General Medicine Council (GMC) and the Medical Protection Society (MPS). She is also an editor and author, contributing to various medicolegal publications.  Some of the things we discussed included:  BMFMS: https://www.bmfms.org.uk/default.aspx The next BMFMS conference will be on 26-27 March in Leeds, UK, and registration and abstract submission is open now: https://bmfmsconference.co.uk/2026/en/page/home Dr Anthony Hart, paediatric neurologist, who has published many papers including Hart et al (2021) Antenatal counselling for prospective parents whose fetus has a neurological anomaly: part 1, experiences and recommendations for service design (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dmcn.15022) Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via X, Bluesky or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us 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. Pranav is dedicated to caring for pregnant women and in particular the well-being of their baby. His expertise is in the ultrasound examination of the mother and unborn baby(s) with particular interest in first trimester anomalies, fetal cardiology, surgical anomalies and fetal therapy. Pranav is also the Chair of the Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Advisory Group at the UK National Screening Committee, where he is involved in developing and implementing national policy on fetal anomaly scanning and screening for fetal aneuploidy and implementation of cell free fetal DNA within the NHS. He has published extensively in the field of fetal medicine and is Editor in Chief of a major textbook - Fetal Medicine Basic Science and Clinical Practice. Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X), Bluesky or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us 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 Scientific Chair at ISUOG, Editor-in-Chief at Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy and Director of the Erasmus Mundus European Doctorate in Fetal Medicine.  His main research lines have been placental insufficiency, fetal programming and fetal therapy in general, including most recently artificial placenta. He has published +600 peer reviewed papers, directed +60 national and international research projects and +40 doctoral theses.  He has provided training in maternal-fetal medicine to +400 specialists.  He is the founder of Fetal Medicine Barcelona, which offers worldwide medical training, with over 25,000 users. Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X), Bluesky or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us 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 is board certified in both Obstetrics & Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine and focuses her career on obstetric complications with a primary focus on preterm birth prevention. Dr. Gyamfi is a proficient, NIH funded researcher whose research has focused on preterm birth prediction and prevention and in interventions to improve outcomes for those delivering preterm, namely antenatal corticosteroids. Results of her randomized clinical trial on antenatal corticosteroids in women at risk for late preterm birth were published in the New England Journal of Medicine and changed obstetric practice in the United States. She also conducts research in the areas of preeclampsia, infectious disease, maternal morbidity and health disparities with over 200 peer-reviewed publications. She is currently the Steering Committee Chair of a multi-center NIHLBI ENRICH study focused on improving maternal and childhood outcomes for pregnant individuals from poorly resources backgrounds, and Steering Committee Chair for the Preventing pre- eclampsia: Evaluating AspiRin Low-dose regimens following risk Screening (PEARLS study), assessing aspirin dosing in sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, she was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a national medical honor society. Finally, she serves on the NICHD Council. Aside from her clinical and research endeavors, Dr. Gyamfi is the Immediate Past President for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), the national and international society representing all perinatologists after completing her President in February, 2025. She is actively involved in writing clinical guidelines in obstetrics for both SMFM and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and continues to mentor trainees and junior faculty from around the world. https://providers.ucsd.edu/details/1568494250/obstetrics-gynecology Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X), Bluesky or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie. 

Send us 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 invited member of the RCOG Genomic Standing Committee, Academic Board and Scientific Advisory Group. She is also secretary for the Fetal Genomics Group of the BSGM and scientific representative for BMFMS. She has over 60 publications in her field and contributes to international guidance related to prenatal genomics. Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us 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 national service for fetal imaging for all body areas and for assessing for placental invasion. Despite having an academic post her work has been driven by local need and requests from the clinicians and is heavily clinically based. She is also part of the team that have established the world’s first clinical service for imaging the post mortem fetus and neonate based on the teams work. In addition she works as part of a sociology team looking at the impact of MRI as a technology on patient care in the clinical setting both for in utero and post mortem imaging. The aim of this collaboration is to understand the landscape in which she works and how that integrates with society. This has altered her clinical practice in many ways, hopefully for the better. Her service is streamlined and designed so appointments are available at short notice but no appointment slots are unfilled. She tries to develop a ‘lean service’ model within the current working environment. Outside work she prioritises the family but find time for doing traditional and new crafts, running around the peak district with friends, aiming for brunch or coffee and cake at the end of the run, and time in the garden, the greenhouse acting as her sanctuary. https://www.fetalmri.co.uk/ https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smph/people/clinical-medicine/elspeth-whitby Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us a Text Message. 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 a bit more about the Blair Bell Research Society. With thanks to the RCOG and BBRS for permission to share the recording.  Professor Poston's bio: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lucilla-poston Professor Lucilla Poston CBE is a Professor of Maternal & Fetal Health in the School of Life Course & Population Sciences. Her research spans maternal nutrition, obesity and gestational diabetes with a focus on the short as well as longer term consequences for the health of mother and the child. Approaches include studies in mother -child cohorts and development of pragmatic interventions in pregnancy to improve pregnancy outcome and child health. Her team also interrogate the early life origins of disease through maternal and child electronic health record data linkages. Professor Poston is President of the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) and was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009. She was appointed NIHR Senior Investigator, Emeritus in 2017, having succeeded twice in open competition. In 2017, Lucilla was awarded a CBE for services to Women’s Health. In 2024 Lucilla was listed by Research.com as being one of the top 1000 female scientists in the world, according to the H Index. Previously Professor Poston was the Tommy's Chair of Maternal & Fetal Health and the Director of the Tommy’s Maternal & Fetal Research Unit based at St Thomas’ Hospital, and the Head of the School of Life Course & Population Sciences. RCOG Annual Academic Meeting info: The RCOG Annual Academic meeting ‘Save the date’ and call for abstracts has just been announced! 6-7 Feb 2025 https://rcog.eventsair.com/annual-academic-meeting-feb-2025 Dr Neil Ryan's bio: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/neilryan Neil is the RCOG Subspecialty Trainee in Gynaecology Oncology at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and a CSO/NES Clinical Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded a personal MRC fellowship to undertake a PhD at the University of Manchester (UoM) which he completed in 2020. His thesis was supervised by Professors Crosbie and Evans. His PhD led to a change in NICE guidelines relating to the testing of womb cancer along with numerous publications, presentations, invited lectures and awards. Neil's work was recognised by a President's Doctorial Scholarship and awarded the UoM's highest postgraduate award: The President's Medal. Neil was recently awarded the William Blair Bell Lecture by the RCOG. British Gynaecological Cancer Society (BGCS) podcast info: https://www.bgcs.org.uk/professionals/new-podcast-series/ Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic

Send us a Text Message. 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 consultant, director of tertiary referral Oxford Fetal Medicine Unit 23 years as practising obstetrician and fetal medicine specialist Director of subspeciality training in maternal and fetal medicine, Oxford Clinical Lead for Maternity Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley Visiting Professor in fetal medicine, Oxford University Author of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Impey and Child 6th (ed in preparation), and Oxford handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (current is 3rd ed) Collins, Arulkumaran, Hayes, Arambage and Impey Multiple blood chapters eg Oxford Textbook of Medicine Lead author of two greentop guidelines Publications on labour and the role of intrapartum risk factors, breech presentation, preterm birth and fetal growth restriction and risk factors for adverse outcomes Current research projects: predicting and preventing stillbirth, Machine learning based intrapartum CTG interpretation Father of Cicely and Orlando and grandfather of Fergus Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us a Text Message. 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 information about Twin Anemia Polycythemia Sequence (TAPS), the diagnosis she had received for her daughters.  This led to the creation of a Facebook community, and later grew to the charity TAPS Support,  Her aim is to help continue research into the complications of monochorionic twins, through actively raising funds for research projects, supporting researchers of the future, and talking with professionals about the perspective of parents with complicated twins pregnancies, and the additional considerations they may need. (And promises she's not out to start fights or arguments, she just has a lot to say).  She also has a passion for breaking down medical jargon, and helping families understand their diagnosis through giving good quality research in everyday terms. Patients should be an active part of their own care team, and need the resources and support to do this. She actively publishes research with two other TTTS mothers, and writes and speaks regularly on twin-related topics, as well as many other subjects, and works in marketing, specifically for companies dealing with clinical research, training and coaching.. In her spare time, she hangs out with the coolest twins ever (her daughters) and her long suffering, very patient husband, and drinks a lot of coffee (and doesn't mind the occasional G&T!). Find a portfolio of her work here: https://stephanieernst.nl/portfolio/ For more information on TAPS Support, visit https://www.tapssupport.com/ Additional resources:  ICOMBO Declaration of rights & statement of needs for twins and higher order multiples: https://icombo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Declaration-of-Rights-2022.pdf  European Standards of Care for Newborn Health: https://newborn-health-standards.org/ NICE Guidelines for Twin and Triple Pregnancy: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng137 Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us a Text Message. 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 Medicine team and leads two translational research clinics for women with hypertension and diabetes. She is also the Hospital Chief Clinical Informatics Officer for St Mary’s Managed Clinical Service (18000 births). She currently runs a portfolio of clinical and laboratory science studies which span vascular and placental biology research, preclinical models, observational cohort studies and intervention trials before, during and after pregnancy. Jenny is the chief/principal investigator for several multicenter studies related to hypertension and diabetes in pregnancy. Jenny is a Consulting Editor for Plos Medicine, President of the RCOG Blair Bell Research Society, obstetric advisor for the National Diabetes in Pregnancy Audit and has served on several NICE committees. World Pre-eclampsia Day 2024: This is on May 22nd 2024. Find out more about it from APEC (Action on Pre-eclampsia) here: https://action-on-pre-eclampsia.org.uk/world-pre-eclampsia-day/ Phoenix study: Find out more about the Phoenix study here: Chappell LC, Brocklehurst P, Green ME, Hunter R, Hardy P, Juszczak E, Linsell L, Chiocchia V, Greenland M, Placzek A, Townend J, Marlow N, Sandall J, Shennan A; PHOENIX Study Group. Planned early delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia (PHOENIX): a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2019 Sep https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2819%2931963-4/fulltext Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Send us a Text Message. 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 1980s. Among her achievements: ISUOG President (2018-2020), awardee Stuart Campbell award for Education (2022). She has mentored over 20 Phd Thesis. Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

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 Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. His main research interests are evidence based medicine and clinical trials in high risk obstetrics. He has over 300 publications listed in PubMed with H-index of 92. He speaks regularly at the international meetings on topics related to preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, induction of labour and evidence based medicine. He has been Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group since 2008 and remains an active member of Cochrane Community, currently serving on the Cochrane Library Editorial Board. Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

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 episode too (fingers crossed)! Sally Boxall's bio in her own words: Specialist nurse in Fetal Medicine, Wessex Fetal Medicine Unit, Southampton I initially trained as a nurse alongside a degree in life sciences at Liverpool university back in the dark ages, and then did my midwifery training in Southampton. Rather than working as a midwife I became the first specialist nurse in genetics in the Wessex Region, and then after 10 years, in 1996, was offered a post as a specialist nurse within the newly created Wessex fetal medicine unit. In 2000 I was appointed as a consultant nurse in fetal medicine and continued in that role until I semi-retired in 2022. I now work part-time as a specialist nurse and spend the rest of my time being a lady that lunches. Married with 2 grown up daughters, 2 grand-daughters and a manic dog. Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

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 invention with associated research. When not paragliding, sailing or in his shed, with his wife, he spends as much time with their 3 daughters as possible each of which has collaborated in various medical projects: the eldest is a producer and made the blood clock video; the middle is a product design engineer and worked on his cerclage simulator and the youngest is a post doc medical statistician at Kings and  they published their first Tydeman Tydeman paper together last year. (Editor's note - life goals, right there. Love it. ) Amnio Abby: https://www.adam-rouilly.co.uk/products/clinical-skills-simulators/ultrasound-training-models/ar60-amnio-abby-ultrasound-guided-invasive-procedures-simulator Graham's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/strathenry Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

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, Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Mercy Hospital for Women. She is the inaugural Sheila Handbury Chair of Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Melbourne, and is the co-director of Mercy Perinatal - a 3 pillar centre committed to clinical care, education and research in high-risk pregnancy. Her research interests include improving the detection and management of fetal growth disorders, stillbirth prevention, therapeutics for pre-eclampsia, perinatal epidemiology and the impact of Sleep Disordered Breathing on perinatal outcomes. Mercy Perinatal mailing list: If anyone would like to jump on the Mercy Perinatal mailing list so they can receive invitations to Fetal Medicine at Twilight, Global Obstetric Update and their regular ‘Journal Club on the Run’ emails, feel free to drop them a line  on mercyperinatal@mercy.com.au. The K-ISBAR tool: de Senneville LL, Brewin A, Thomas A, Calvert K. A qualitative analysis of adding kindness into the ISBAR handover tool. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol. 2022 Dec;62(6):901-905. doi: 10.1111/ajo.13607. Epub 2022 Sep 12. PMID: 36097379. Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

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 surrounding this often not openly discussed subject. Guests range from others who’ve experienced TFMR, to health professionals working with this patient group. Time to Talk TFMR podcast: https://talktfmr.buzzsprout.com/ Antenatal results and choices (ARC) supports Time to Talk TFMR podcast: https://www.arc-uk.org/for-parents/break-the-silence-around-tfmr/ __________________________________________ 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

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, John lived in the southern counties, then in the “Troubles” of Northern Ireland, before medical school Dublin, where he graduated from Trinity College in 1984. Living in the busy Rotunda Hospital in Dublin for 3 months, followed by a summer elective at the Fetal Medicine centre at the Queen Mother’s Hospital Glasgow, the home of Obstetric Ultrasound, set him firmly on his career path. He spent the next decade as a trainee in Glasgow, before moving to UCH, London to one of the very few UK subspecialty training positions at that time in Fetal Medicine. He held a senior lecturer position at UCL for only 3 years, before making the decision to cross the Pond to take up a unique opportunity as a clinician-scientist in major MFM centre. There he managed a molecular pathology research lab linked with his work as a high-risk Obstetrician, producing over 400 basic and more clinical publications thus far in his career, including guidelines on placenta accreta spectrum disorder and fetal growth restriction. In 2017, John led the first launch of real-time placenta growth factor testing (PlGF) in North America, which in 2023 is fast changing many aspects of care in our specialty. Since 2013, John has been Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, spanning a city of over 6 million. With over 300 consultants across all sub-specialities, working in a citywide network of 10 hospitals and over 40,000 births annually, UofT ObGyn now ranks second to Harvard. Mount Sinai MFM Division of over 20 consultants provides 24/7 in-house care in all dimension of Fetal Medicine, and is home to both the Ontario Fetal Centre and a new Complex Obstetrics Surgery program. Their city-wide MFM fellowship currently has 12 subspecialty trainees in 2-3 year programs, as a mix of Canadian and International trainees, including from the UK. John’s current passion beyond his own research focuses on mentorship across the fellowship to consultant transition, and ongoing academic career development. In Fall 2023 he was elected to fellowship of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Podcast information: 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 suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.