Medical complications in pregnancy course itinerary

12th-14th February 2025

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DATE

TIME

SESSION

CHAIR

SPEAKERS (2025)

12/02/25

09.00hrs

Registration

09.30hrs

Introduction

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

09.30hrs

Why obstetric medicine is important

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 Catherine Williamson

Prof Catherine Nelson-Piercy

12.10hrs

Inflammatory bowel disease

Dr Oseme Etomi

12.40hrs

Lunch

13.40hrs

Renal disease (Chronic Kidney Disease)

Professor David Williams

Dr Kate Wiles

14.10hrs

Renal disease (Acute Kidney Injury)

Dr Kate Bramham

14.50hrs

Tea

15.15hrs

Pre-gestational diabetes and Diabetes Technology - So What, Now What?

Professor Catherine Williamson

Professor Helen Murphy

15.50hrs

Gestational diabetes mellitus and timing of delivery in women with diabetes

Dr Caroline Ovadia

16.20hrs

Diabetic ketoacidosis and Saving Babies Lives

Dr Lucy MacKillop

16.45hrs

Obesity, bariatric surgery and metabolic disorders

Dr Charlie Frise

17.10hrs

Discussion on diabetes and metabolic disorders in pregnancy

Dr Helen Murphy, Dr Lucy MacKillop, Dr Caroline Ovadia, Dr Charlie Frise

17.30hrs

End of Day 1 - Evening Drinks Reception

13/02/25

09.00hrs

Prediction and prevention of pre-eclampsia

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

Professor Kypros Nicolaides

09.25hrs

Diagnosis and Management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy

Professor Lucy Chappell

09.50hrs

Management of Severe Pre-eclampsia-like Syndromes

Professor David Williams

10.15hrs

Hypertension and pre-eclampsia workshop

Professor Kypros Nicolaides, Professor Lucy Chappell, Professor David Williams

11.00hrs

Coffee

11.30hrs

Essential haematology for obstetricians

Professor David Williams

Dr Mike Desborough

12.05hrs

Thromboembolism

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

12.45hrs

Lunch

13.45hrs

Heart disease in pregnancy

Professor Catherine Williamson

Dr Cathy Head

14.25hrs

Respiratory disease in pregnancy

Dr Siara Teelucksingh

14.55hrs

Maternal Critical Care

Dr Bhaskar Narayan

15.25hrs

Tea

15.55hrs

Clinical cases workshop

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

Dr Paarul Prinja, Miss Mandish Dhanial, Dr Lizemarie Wium, Dr Felicity Coad

17.00hrs

End of Day 2

14/02/25

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

Hyperemesis gravidarum

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

Dr Melanie Nana

11.35hrs

Liver disease in pregnancy

Professor Catherine Williamson

12.15hrs

Dermatological disorders

Professor David Williams

12.45hrs

Lunch

13.45hrs

Thyroid disease

Professor David Williams

Dr Tim Korevar

14.15hrs

Other endrocrine problems

Prof Catherine Williamson

14.45hrs

Cancer

Professor Kristel Van Calsteren

15.15hrs

Tea

15.35hrs

Clinical cases workshop

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy

Dr Carol Postelthwaite, Dr Aarthi Mohan, Dr Fran Neuberger

16.35hrs

Controversies in obstetric medicine, prescribing in medical disorders in pregnancy

Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy, Professor David Williams, Professor Catherine Williamson

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.