Medical complications in pregnancy course itinerary

25th - 27th February 2026

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DATE

TIME

SESSION

CHAIR

SPEAKERS

25/02/26

09.00hrs

Registration

09.30hrs

Introduction

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

09.35hrs

The role of the Obstetric Physician

Prof David Williams

09.55hrs

HIV and pregnancy

Prof Yvonne Gilleece

10.25hrs

Infectious diseases in pregnancy

Professor Alison Rodger

11.05hrs

Coffee

11.30hrs

Connective tissue disorders

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

Dr Bethan Goulden

12.10hrs

The role of the obstetrician; How and when to deliver

Miss Mandish Dhanjal

12.40hrs

Lunch

13.40hrs

Thyroid disease

Professor David Williams

Dr Tim Korevar

14.10hrs

Other endocrine problems

Prof Catherine Williamson

14.50hrs

Tea

15.15hrs

Pre-gestational diabetes

Professor Catherine Williamson

Dr Robbie Lindsay

15.45hrs

Gestational diabetes mellitus

Dr Caroline Ovadia

16.15hrs

Challenging metabolic emergencies

Dr Charlotte Frise

16.45hrs

Obesity, bariatric surgery; is there a place for GLP-1 inhibitors?

Professor Tricia Tan

17.10hrs

Discussion on diabetes and metabolic disorders in pregnancy

Robbie Linsay, Caroline Ovadia, Charlotte Frise
and Tricia Tan

17.30hrs

End of Day 1 - Evening Drinks Reception

26/02/26

09.00hrs

Management of pre-eclampsia

Professor Cath Williamson

Dr Lucy MacKillop

09.25hrs

Pre-eclampsia like syndromes

Professor David Williams

09.50hrs

Challenging cases with hypertensive disease

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

10.15hrs

Discussion on pre-eclampsia and hypertension

Cathy Nelson-Piercy, Dr Lucy MacKillop, David Williams

11.00hrs

Coffee

11.30hrs

Essential haematology for obstetricians

Professor David Williams

Dr Sue Pavord

12.05hrs

Thromboembolism

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

12.45hrs

Lunch

13.45hrs

Heart disease in pregnancy

Professor David Williams

Dr Hannah Douglas

14.25hrs

Respiratory disease in pregnancy

Dr Siara Teelucksingh

14.55hrs

Maternal Critical Care

Dr Bhaskar Narayan

15.25hrs

Tea

15.55hrs

Stump the expert - audience to submit cases

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

Dr Kate Wiles, Miss Mandish Dhanjal, Siara Teelucksingh, Bhaskar Naryan

17.00hrs

End of Day 2

27/02/26

09.00hrs

Epilepsy

Professor Catherine Williamson

Ms Jen Nightingale

09.30hrs

Other neurology in pregnancy

Dr Pooja Dassan

10.10hrs

Psychiatric problems in pregnancy

Dr Kate Womersley

10.40hrs

Coffee

11.10hrs

Inflammatory bowel disease

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

Dr Oseme Etomi

11.35hrs

Liver disease in pregnancy

Professor Catherine Williamson

12.15hrs

Skin disease

Dr Lizemarie Wium

12.45hrs

Lunch

13.45hrs

Renal disease (Chronic Kidney Disease)

Professor Cath Williamson

Dr Kate Wiles

14.15hrs

Renal disease (Acute Kidney Injury)

Professor David Williams

14.45hrs

Cancer

Dr Melanie Nana

15.15hrs

Tea

15.35hrs

Controversies in obstetric medicine

Professor David Williams

Dr Lizemarie Wium, CW, DW, CNP

16.35hrs

The role of maternal medicine networks at reducing inequalities

Dr Yasmin Jamil

17.00hrs

Closing remarks and end of meeting

Dr Oseme Etomi

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Dr Oseme Etomi is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Obstetric Physician in South East London and works across 2 NHS trusts including Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich.

She trained in North-East London, in some of the most prestigious centres for Rheumatology including the Royal Free Hospital (National Centre for Scleroderma and other Connective tissue disorders) and Bart’s and the Royal London (National Centre of inflammatory arthritis and SLE). In 2017, Oseme undertook a clinical fellowship at St Thomas’s Hospital under Professor Nelson Piercy.

Within the field of Obstetric Medicine, her main interest is looking after women with inflammatory diseases and immunosuppression in pregnancy. She runs a weekly inflammatory rheumatic disease and a weekly inflammatory bowel disease clinic in pregnancy.

Oseme has published abstracts and papers on Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease in pregnancy. In 2018 she was awarded the best oral presentation at the international Society of Obstetric Medicine for her work in this field. She was also instrumental in setting up the British Society of Rheumatology Specialist interest group in Pregnancy in 2019. She sits on the advisory board for the Biologics in Rheumatoid arthritis Pregnancy (BiRAP) group and was one of the organisers of the highly successful 12th Rheumapreg Symposium in September 2023 in London.

Her other interests include work on diversity, inclusion and wellbeing. She is the lead for trainee wellbeing in O&G at GSTT. A role she is extremely passionate about.