Perinatal Care and Operative Birth

Professor Dimitrios Siassakos

Research Group Lead

Research Profile

Publications

Aims

To optimise health and safety in pregnancy and birth for every parent

The group’s work specifically focusses on birth and birth emergencies, as well perinatal death and brain injury prevention

Objectives

Revolutionalise operative and assisted birth (ventouse, forceps, manual rotation) and obstetric surgery (caesarean birth) in the UK and globally
Investigate solutions to improve care and prevention for serious perinatal incidents from recurrent miscarriage to stillbirth and neonatal death and brain injury
Improve team care at the frontline: sophisticated research to develop simple solutions that make good care the easiest option
Robust evaluation of interventions to ensure all parents and staff have access to care that is effective, safe, and associated with positive experience
Develop high-tech and frugal solutions to improve safety of birth

Collaborations

National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit – Prof. Jenny Kurinczuk: PMRT Collaboration, Maternal & Neonatal Health and Care Policy Research Unit
Australian Stillbirth Centre for Research Excellence – Prof. Vicki Flenady
Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit – Prof. Peter Brocklehurst
University of Oxford – Dr Lisa Hinton
University of Edinburgh – Prof. Jane Norman
University of Manchester – Prof. Alex Heazell
University of Warwick – Prof. Jo Angouri
University of Liverpool – Prof. Andrew Weeks
University of Bristol & North Bristol NHS Trust – Dr Christy Burden, Dr Islam Gamaleldin, Dr Danya Bakhbakhi, Dr Stephen O’Brien

Group Members

Associate Professor Dimitrios Siassakos, UCL IfWH
Professor Anna David, UCL IfWH
Ms Chiara Messina, UCLH Clinical Research Manager
Professor Manish Tiwari, UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering
Professor Adrien Desjardin, UCL Engineering
Dr George Attilakos, Consultant Fetal Medicine, UCLH
Dr Melissa Whitten, Consultant Fetal Medicine, UCLH
Angela Velinor, Lead Midwife for Education & Maternity CPF Team Lead, UCLH
Research Training Fellow
Robert Stafford-Williams UCL CDT Medical Imaging Doctoral Student