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Pat O’Brien has been a Consultant & Honorary Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University College London Hospitals since 1999. He is currently the Divisional Clinical Director for Women's Health. He specialises in Maternal Medicine and high-risk obstetrics, and at UCLH jointly runs a multi-disciplinary antenatal clinic involving consultants in Fetal Medicine, Cardiology, Haematology, Diabetes, Anaesthesia, and an Obstetric Physician. He has a particular interest in medical complications of pregnancy. He lectures widely in the UK and abroad, and runs courses on fetal monitoring, medical problems on the delivery suite, psychiatric problems and cardiac disorders in pregnancy.

He is the Chair of the International Division of the Institute for Women’s Health in London and a media spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. He is a reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration and several medical journals. He sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and the BJM. He examines for the DRCOG examination. He has been a member of the obstetric guideline development group of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the UK. He also works regularly with BBC Television (British Broadcasting Corporation) as an obstetric advisor.

Asma Khalil is a Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine at St George’s University Hospital (University of London). She is a subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine, specialising in scanning women and babies with complications in pregnancy. She is the lead for the Multiple Pregnancy service at St George’s Hospital, the referral unit for the South West London region, but also cares for women with low risk pregnancies.

Dr Khalil gained her MD at the University of London in 2009 following two years’ research into pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure in pregnancy). She also has a Masters degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an MRC scholarship.

She is a representative member for fetal medicine at the national Clinical Reference Groups for specialised services. She has active collaborations with international societies, particularly in developing countries. She is also an active member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS), International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy (ISPD), International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG), International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy (ISSHP) and Society of Reproductive Investigation (SRI). She works closely with the team in the Twins and Multiple Births Association (TAMBA).