Editors
Leanne Bricker undertook undergraduate training in South Africa and then in the UK specialised in OBGYN and subspecialised in Fetomaternal Medicine. She was Director of Fetal Medicine at Liverpool Women's Hospital in the UK (2003-2014) and served on the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society executive committee (2009-2014).
Since 2014 she has been Chair of Fetal Medicine at Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE. She has published over sixty papers, abstracts and book chapters. She is an expert in the management of multiple pregnancy and was involved in the development of the UK NICE guidelines for the management of multiple pregnancy and the RCOG green top guideline for the management of monochorionic twin pregnancy. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetrics and GynaecologyJulian N. Robinson trained at Guy's Hospital, London and the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Oxford. He completed a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Faculty appointments include MFM attending posts at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York and the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. Julian was an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia Medical School, New York, and is currently an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. His clinical interests include obstetrics, prenatal diagnosis and the management of multiple pregnancy. He has approximately 150 peer-reviewed academic publications.
Basky Thilaganathan was appointed Director of Fetal Medicine at St George's Hospital in 1999. He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications in indexed journals. His major research interest is placental dysfunction leading to pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction and stillbirth (TED talk: http://bit.ly/2i1SqDk). He has led on the implementation of algorithm-based screening at St George's which has led to an 80% reduction in preterm preeclampsia - the severest form of the disease (https://vimeo.com/rcog/authorinsights16361). He is the Clinical Director of the Tommy's National Centre for Maternity Improvement (https://vimeo.com/638468663/23d205d029) located at the RCOG and is Editor Emeritus of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the medical journal affiliated to ISUOG. He is a Council Member on the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG) and represents the RCOG on the UK National Screening Committee and the DH Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle oversight committee. He is also the Clinical Lead for the first dedicated high-throughput cfDNA screening NHS lab to undertake cfDNA aneuploidy screening (NIPT) in pregnancy (www.theSAFEtest.co.uk).