2021 EGA IfWH 16th Annual Conference - Poster Abstracts

Anjana Lakshmi Narasimhan 

I'm Anjana and I am a fourth year medical student and I have recently completed my intercalated degree in Women's Health'

A systematic review of brachial plexus injuries during caesarean section.

Anna Marsh

Anna Marsh - Antenatal Clinic Lead Midwife , Elizabeth Eddershaw- General Manager, Maternity and Neonatology & Gurth Fernando- Assistant General Manager .

Antenatal Education COVID-19 style – women’s experiences and preferences of Online Antenatal Education Classes in unprecedented times.

Annette Thwaites

Annette Thwaites is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Sexual and Reproductive Health and senior registrar at King’s College Hospitalcurrently working towards her MD(Res) into the contraceptive needs of women after successful in vitro fertilisation.

The fertility paradox: the need for contraception after in vitro fertilisation

Ariel Finkielsztein

Research Fellow EGA-IfWH with an interest in immune system and lung targeted therapies using cell therapy and biologics.

A Recombinant Fragment of Human Surfactant Protein D (rfhSP-D) Decreases Inflammation in Ventilated Pre-term Lambs

Arwa Almutlaq

Arwa Almutlaq, a lecturer at KSU, KSA, holding a master's degree in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine, UCl and current PhD candidate in Human Genetics and Reproductive Health, IfWH, UCL. Research interests include preimplantation genetics, epigenetics, post-transcriptional and post-translational regulatory mechanisms.

MiRNA Landscape in human blastocyst.

Bryony Stoneman

Bryony Stoneman is a community midwifery team leader at UCLH. She obtained a Master of Science in Midwifery with distinction from City, University of London and her research interests centre around improving access to maternity services and reducing inequalities in women's health. Andreia Goncalves is a community midwife at UCLH and a PhD Fellow at the University of Oporto, ICBAS School of Medicine and Biomedical sciences. She holds a degree in Nursing, a degree in Midwifery and a Masters in Social Research Methods. Maria Garcia de Frutos is a Midwifery Lecturer at City, University of London. She gained a MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and her clinical focus and research interests relate to social and reproductive justice, reducing health inequalities, women with complex socio-political needs, migrants and displaced populations. 

What are women’s perceptions of choice in the UK when they make decisions during their pregnancy? A mixed-methods systematic review.

Catherine Stewart

Catherine has recently graduated from UCL with a Master of Science in Reproductive Science and Women’s Health

Factors that affect the utilisation of maternal healthcare in the Mchinji District of Malawi

Ellie Chilcott

Ellie is a post-doc working with Raj Karda in the department of Maternal & Fetal Medicine and is working on a project to develop a potential genetic strategy to treat Dravet Syndrome. 

Gene editing for Dravet Syndrome

Georgia Graham

I am a recent UCL graduate having just completed a master's degree in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine, I also have a great interest in reproductive and global health.

The determinants of post-partum implant and IUD use in the Mchinji District of Malawi

Georgina Brown

Georgina Brown is a PhD student in the Targeted Lung Immunotherapy group in the Institute for Women's Health, and is currently researching the role of surfactant proteins in allergic asthma. 

Characterisation of the role of innate immune proteins in inflammatory lung disease

Hannah Yusuf

Hannah Yusuf, a fourth year UCL Medical Student who completed her iBSC in Women’s Health last year.

Chance of healthy pregnancy versus adverse outcome in subsequent pregnancy after previous pregnancy loss beyond 16 weeks: data from a specialised follow-up clinic.

Janina Schellenberg

3rd Year Biomedical Engineering student at King’s College London - working on “Multiparametric Modelling of Fetal MRI to Compare Fetal Organ Segmentations for Fetal Growth Restriction.

Multiparametric modelling of fetal MRI to compare lobular and whole-placental segmentations for fetal growth restriction

Kavita Prashar

Hello! I'm Kavita, a 4th year medical student with an intercalated degree in Women's Health. 

Fetal resuscitation during fetal surgery for spina bifida: a global review of policy and practice

Kelly Harvey-Jones

Research fellow in optical monitoring of newborn brain injury, department of neonatology, institute for women’s health, UCL.

Metabolic and haemodynamic reactivity indices of cerebral autoregulation provide an early assessment of injury severity and predict neurological outcome following neonatal encephalopathy.

Konstantina Tetorou

I am Konstantina Tetorou, a 3rd year PhD. student at Perinatal Brain Repair Group and my projects is focused on investigation new treatments for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy. 

Inhibition of Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3) – a promosing neuroprotection strategy for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic brain damage

Lily Hutton

My career began when I undertook my midwifery training at King's College London. An interest in consent to episiotomy then arose through observation of practice. This led me to undertake the MSc in Women's Health at UCL and align my dissertation with this topic. I now work as a Midwifery Lecturer at London South Bank University and am passionate about improving consent processes for both birthing people and healthcare professionals. 

Healthcare professionals’ experiences of consenting women to an episiotomy: a qualitative study

Maria Ivan

I am Specialty Trainee year 4 in Obstetrics and Gynaecology currently undertaking an out-of-programme fellowship at UCLH. My clinical research is on investigating the risk of preterm birth following full dilatation caesarean section.

Antenatal surveillance and pregnancy outcomes in women diagnosed with congenital unicornuate uterus

Michele Robinson

Dr Michele Robinson MBChB MRCOGC, Clinical fellow in Reproductive medicine at UCLH, and ST6 registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at North East London deanery.

Fertility preservation for benign conditions

Nada Mufti

My name is Nada Mufti. I am a final year PhD student working with Professor Anna David and Dr. Andrew Melbourne in the Guided Instrumentation for Fetal Therapy and Surgery (GIFT-Surg) project funded by the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences(WEISS). My research is on the application of advanced novel MRI techniques in fetal and maternal surgery to help improve surgical planning, case selection and outcomes.  

The use of super resolution reconstruction (SRR) MRI for surgical planning in fetal neck masses and congenital high airway obstruction syndrome (CHAOS): A retrospective case series

Natasha Liou

I am an O&G trainee currently studying for a PhD at the Institute of Women’s Health and Bladder Infection and Immunity Group (BIIG). We are using image-based machine learning to identify and enumerate markers of infection in the urine using microscopy. Our aim is to develop a tool to help us better diagnose urine infections, and provide insights into UTI pathophysiology. 

Application of image-based machine learning to identify urinary cells from microscope images

Naz Shagufta

Naz Shagufta, PhD student in Women’s Health and Reproductive Science. 

Characterisation of the recombinant fragment of the innate immunity molecule surfactant protein D (SP-D) with human rhinovirus and respiratory syncytial virus.

Radha Graham

Radha Graham is a Subspecialty Trainee in Gynaecological Oncology at UCLH. 

The surgical management and outcomes of stage I malignant ovarian germ cell tumours in the UK: a multicentre retrospective cohort study

Rose Maloney

Rose is a 4th year medical student at UCL who completed the iBSc in Women's Health last year. Her poster focuses on health inequalities amongst sex workers, who face a range of barriers when trying to access healthcare.

An evaluation of the unmet health needs of sex workers, including a review of the current provision of care for sex workers in London

Sania Latif

Sania Latif is a Clinical Research Fellow in Reproductive Medicine at University College London Hospital and is currently doing an MD at UCL. She is a Specialty Registrar in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in the North Central and East London Deanery. 

Fertility Preservation in girls: 6 years experience in a tertiary centre

Silvia Vignola

Dr Silvia Vignola, Specialty doctor in Fetal Ultrasound and Fetal and Maternal Medicine.

Use of the Focus Point for plane acquisition to improve reproducibility in fetal biometry
 

Sonia Johnson

I am a UCL iBSc Women’s Health Student (2020/21) and a medical student at Barts and the London  

Abnormal fetoplacental histopathology and glucose dysmetabolism in congenital pneumonia: a retrospective case review

Tatiana Nazarenko

Tatiana Nazarenko was graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) in 2008; got a PhD in Mathematics there in 2014; since January 2019, she has been working at UCL as a Research Fellow (and sharing this position between Department of Mathematics and the Department of Women's Cancer, IfWH) in the team of Alexei Zaikin and she is engaged in the development of network approaches and their application to biological and medical data.

Application of synolitic networks to the analysis of multidimensional data

Vaishali Kiridaran

Hi, I'm Vaishali. I'm a 4th year UCL medical student with an iBSc in Women's Health which I undertook last year to pursue my interest in Obstetrics and Gynaecology!

Attitudes and experiences of South Asian women with sexual health services in the UK: A Qualitative study

Vera Donadono

Vera is a specialist in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, trained in Italy, at Policlinico Federico II of Naples. She has been active in research for eight years and she has worked as Clinical Research Fellow at JR Oxford University Hospital and as Senior Fellow in Ultrasound at UCLH.

Training in obstetric ultrasound biometry: results from a multicentre reproducibility study

Vikram Talaulika

I work as an associate specialist in Reproductive Medicine at University College London Hospital

Knowledge and attitudes toward fertility awareness and fertility preservation among doctors in a teaching hospital in the United Kingdom

Xulin Foo

Dr Xulin Foo is a Clinical Fellow in Reproductive Medicine at University College London Hospital with advanced ultrasound skills in early pregnancy, benign gynaecology and endometriosis.

Fertility preservation in transgender males: A single centre experience