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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

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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 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.

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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.

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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.