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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.

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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.

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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.