Annual Conference 2023

This year the format included oral presentations from IfWH/UCLH Researchers presenting their work, and undergoing a Q&A session. Presentations were judged by our panel, and prizes awarded for the overall best performances.

In addition to this, as like every year, we had our poster presentations and prizes, including highlights from our Institute staff of the high profile research that has been undertaken and audit presentations from UCLH clinical staff.

At this meeting we celebrated how staff are delivering breakthroughs across women’s health. Digital health innovation is being touted as the next big thing but will artificial intelligence and robiotics really replace human beings in women’s health?  Go to our recordings below to listen to the Debate we had on this.  In neonatology we learnt about innovations that are using light to save babies and their families from preventable harm, how this is being applied in Uganda and how novel surfactant may improve lung function.  In maternal fetal medicine we highlighted how the new genetics is impacting fetal medicine, complications and outcomes of fetal shunt procedures and the potential long-term impact of fetal growth restriction on the maternal heart. The Audit and Quality improvement session gave two presentations featuring gestational diabetes and how we can improve outcomes in our busy maternity service.  

Reproductive health topics focused on healthcare and research priorities for women with polycystic ovary syndrome, minimally invasive gynaecologic surgery, and we were introduced to the new NIHR Policy Research Unit in Reproductive Health lead by Jenny Hall and Judith Stephenson.

In women’s cancer we learnt about cervical cancer vaccination, endometrial cancer awareness, novel markers of ovarian cancer and fertility preservation techniques for women of reproductive age with cancer.

Professor Marian Knight, Professor of Maternal & Child Population Health at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford presented our Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Keynote Lecture on ‘Inequality in Women’s Health’.

Recordings and pictures of the event can be found below.

Please click here to view the full abstract booklet and programme

If you didn’t manage to get to any of the sessions you can catch up via the recording links below:

Recording - Morning sessions

Recording - Afternoon sessions

Introductions to the Day, and Session 1: Innovation & The Women’s Health Lifecourse

• PDF Presentations

Session 2: Debate: This house believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics will replace Human Beings in Women’s Health Care

• PDF Presentations - Spiros Denaxas and Ying Cheong

 Session 3: Early Career Researcher Presentations:

• PDF Presentations - Break Out Room 1 (Maternal & Fetal Medicine & Neonatology) 

• PDF Presentations - Break Out Room 2 (Reproductive Health, Neonatology) 

Session 4: The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Reproductive Health

• PDF Presentation

Session 5: Medical Student Prize Talk

• PDF Presentation - Alicia Walker

Session 7: EGA Key Note Lecture - Inequality in Women’s Health

Professor Marian Knight (Professor of Maternal & Child Population Health at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford)

• PDF Presentation

Session 8: EGA Hospital Charity Presentations 

Anne Boutwood Travelling Fellowship

Dr Hajra Khattak - Optimising oocyte viability in cryopreserved ovarian tissue - Dr Hajra Khattak, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics % Gynaecology, EGA IfWH

Dr Neerujah Balachandren - Covid-19 conception and pregnancy study, a successful collaboration of clinicians and academics

PDF Presentations

Prize Categories & Winners

Oral Presentations - Winners 

Poster Presentations  - Winners