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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.

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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

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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 [email protected].

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.

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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/

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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.

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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.

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Biography of Prof. Khalil:

Prof. Asma Khalil, MD,MBBCh, MRCOG, MSc(Epi), DFSRH, Dip(GUM)

Professor of Fetal Medicine, St George’s Hospital, University of London

Director of Fetal Medicine Unit, Liverpool Women’s Hospital

Vice-President of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Asma Khalil is a Professor of Fetal Medicine. She is the Obstetric Lead at the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA). She gained her MD at the University of London in 2008. She was elected as the Vice-President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

She set up the Laser service for fetal interventions at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2011.

Prof. Asma Khalil has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers, and many published review articles and chapters. She was awarded many research prizes, both at national and international meetings. She was awarded the 2021 FIGO Women's Awards: Recognising Female Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Her research interests include twin pregnancy, congenital infections, fetal growth restriction and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy.

She had a fellowship with the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).  committed to the implementation of clinical guidelines in practice. She is the Lead author of the ISUOG guideline on the role of ultrasound in twins and congenital infections. She also led the guideline team developing the FIGO guideline on twin pregnancies. She was a member of the NICE Guideline Committee updating the Twin and Multiple Pregnancy guidance. 

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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 training in Bristol
• Post-graduate training in obstetrics and gynaecology, Wessex
• Sub-specialty training, Birmingham Women's Hospital

Experience:
Mr Howe worked for University Hospital Southampton since February 1996 until 2023. He was responsible for complex fetal problems and prenatal diagnosis, and ran a clinic for monochorionic twins. He was also the obstetric lead for the joint obstetric cardiac clinic.

Alongside his role as a consultant in obstetrics, Mr Howe was an honorary senior lecturer in fetomaternal medicine.

Key achievements

• Establishing the Wessex fetal and maternal medicine service
• Clinical director for obstetrics and gynaecology, 2001 to 2006
• Divisional director of women and children’s services, 2006 to 2007
• Developing a sub-specialty service and sub-specialty training programme in fetal and maternal medicine

ISUOG trainee membership - free for first two years then reduced fee: https://www.isuog.org/membership/trainees.html

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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 Vermont and upstate New York and additionally serves as Associate Medical Director of the Birthing Center and Associate Director of Quality for Obstetrics at the University of Vermont Medical Center. His clinical interests include planned vaginal breech birth, assisted vaginal birth, fetal growth restriction and electronic fetal monitoring. His research interests are focused on the evidence-based integration of acupuncture and related techniques into conventional maternity care, as well as the exploration of novel applications of acupuncture in animal models of high-risk pregnancy. His lab is currently examining the efficacy, safety and mechanisms of action of electroacupuncture in a rat model of maternal obesity characterized by insulin resistance and uteroplacental insufficiency. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Acupuncture in Medicine (published by SAGE and owned by the British Medical Acupuncture Society) since 2015.

After graduating from UCL medical school in 2004, he spent 12 years in UK postgraduate training during which time he was awarded an MSc in Western Medical Acupuncture by the University of Hertfordshire and a PhD in Fetal Medicine from UCL under the supervision of Anna David and Jacqueline Wallace at the University of Aberdeen (to which he relocated for 18 months). His thesis was entitled “Evaluation of
Prenatal Adenoviral Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene Therapy in the Growth-Restricted Sheep Fetus and Neonate”. He began subspecialty training at St George’s, University of London, completed the RCOG ATMs in Maternal Medicine and Advanced Labour Ward Practice and ultimately gained his CCT in general O&G, but subsequently made the decision to emigrate to the USA and retrain in O&G and MFM.

He spent his first year as an intern at NYU (including a stint at Bellevue, the USA’s oldest public hospital) and then moved on to the University of Vermont for a further three years’ of Ob/Gyn residency followed by three years’ of MFM fellowship. While finally working in a substantive post (as an attending physician and Assistant Professor), he is currently rounding out 20 years’ of postgraduate training by completing a 1-year faculty fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the Osher Collaborative for Integrative Health.

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: [email protected], or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast. 

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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 with complex respiratory problems and cancer in pregnancy. She has published  and talks widely on areas relevant to her subspecialist interest. From an academic perspective, she is currently a national chief investigator for a multicentric study on non-invasive prenatal testing for neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia in pregnancy, and co-investigator for a study looking at preterm delivery in triplets. She is also co-investigator on a UKOSS study on non-invasive ventilation in pregnancy. She is one of the two national fetal medicine reps for BMFMS and incoming president for the Maternity and Newborn forum at the Royal Society of Medicine. She is the clinical trustee for Twins Trust, a multiple births charity in the UK. She works closely with the British Association of Perinatal Medicine in developing antenatal pathways for families needing paediatric palliative care. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and photography. 

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: [email protected], 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.