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MATERNAL-FETAL


                    BASKY THILAGANATHAN                                                            MD, PHD,

                                                                                                   FRCOG


                    ANEUPLOIDY IN PREGNANCY: HOW TO SCREEN?

                                                                                                  AUTHOR
                                                                                       BEATRIZ ANDRADE

           Basky Thilaganathan, MD, PhD, FR-  nity  Improvement, an alliance between   diac adaptation in pregnancy, fetal growth
        COG is Director and Professor of the Fetal   Tommy’s, Royal College of Obstetricians   restriction due to placental dysfunction,
        Medicine Unit at St George’s Hospital, in   and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Mid-  multiple pregnancy and preeclampsia.
        London, and  lead  trainer  for  the Mater-  wives, the National Health System (NHS),   He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed
        nal-Fetal medicine sub-specialty training   UK  universities and  parents to  improve   publications in indexed journals as well as
        program in that hospital. He is also Clini-  the quality of maternity care across the   two  undergraduate  and  five  postgraduate
        cal Director of the Tommy's National Cen-  UK. Under his leadership, researchers   text books in obstetrics and fetal medicine.
        tre for Maternity Improvement and Editor   work to create an ideal model of materni-  Within his multiple projects, Basky
        Emeritus of the Ultrasound in Obstetrics   ty care that can be scaled up nationwide,   Thilaganathan was also the Clinical Lead
        and Gynecology (UOG), the medical jour-  in order to reduce the current inequalities   for  the  development  of  the  first  NHS
        nal  affiliated  to  the  International  Society   between different providers and regions.  high-throughput lab dedicated to the de-
        for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecol-  Experienced Professor of Fetal Medi-  velopment  of  non-invasive  prenatal  test-
        ogy (ISUOG).                        cine, Professor Thilaganathan’s research in-  ing  to  undertake  cell-free  DNA  (cfDNA)
           Professor Thilaganathan undertook his   terests focus on Maternal-Fetal medicine,   aneuploidy screening in pregnancy.
        undergraduate training at King’s College   with a particular interest on maternal car-
        London, where he obtained MBBS (1988)
        and BSc in Genetic Engineering (1995).
        He completed his postgraduate train-
        ing at King’s College London and St Bart-
        holomew’s Hospitals, culminating in his
        Membership  of  the Royal  College of  Ob-
        stetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG)
        (1995), MD in Fetal Medicine (1996) and
        Certificate of Completion of Training (1998).
           In 1999 he was appointed Director of
        Fetal Medicine at St George’s Hospital, a
        position he holds until today. His experi-
        ence earned him the invitation to become
        a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetri-
        cians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) in 2007
        and an Honorary Doctorate (PhD) from
        Uppsala University in the same year.
           Basky Thilaganathan was appointed
        in 2008 as Professor of Fetal Medicine at
        St George’s, University of London. In 2010
        was nominated Editor-in-chief of the
        medical journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics
        and Gynecology and, since 2015, is the
        Obstetric representative of the Fetal, Ma-
        ternal and Child Health Sub-committee of
        the UK National Screening Committee.
           In March 2020, Professor Thilagana-
        than took on the role of Clinical Director
        of the Tommy's National Centre for Mater-



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