Meet the staff

Aris is a Clinician-Scientist and divides his time between St George’s Hospital (where he works clinically) and Oxford University (where he is Clinical Research Director of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute). He has a special interest in fetal ultrasound assessment, fetal growth and intrauterine/endoscopic fetal surgery.  Aris trained at the University of Sheffield; worked for over two years as a clinical research fellow at the Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine at Kings College Hospital; and has dual sub-specialist accreditation in both Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal medicine.

His research is focused in the area of maternal, fetal and perinatal health using diverse methods, including basic science, clinical epidemiology, trials, knowledge transfer and implementation science. These have included large global projects in low resource settings using ultrasound, biomarkers and clinical methods to monitor fetal and newborn growth and development, and to improve outcomes. Aris is a prolific academic with over 300 original articles.

He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief for BJOG; National Chair of the Expert Working Group in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the UK; and a visiting Professor at Capital Medical University in Beijing. He has received the prestigious Honorary Membership of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Unviersity of Athens.

Basky Thilaganathan was appointed Director of Fetal Medicine at St George’s Hospital in 1999. His research interests are focused on Maternal-Fetal medicine, with a particular interest on placental dysfunction and preeclampsia (view his TED talk). He undertook his undergraduate training at King’s College London, where he obtained a BSc in Genetic Engineering (1985) and MBBS (1988). He completed his postgraduate training at King’s College London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals, culminating in attainment of MRCOG (1995) and MD in Fetal Medicine (1996). He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) and an Honorary Doctorate (PhD) from Uppsala University in 2007.

He has authored two undergraduate and six postgraduate text books in obstetrics and fetal medicine. He is the lead trainer for the Maternal-Fetal medicine sub-speciality training programme at St George’s Hospital and is Emeritus Editor of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the medical journal affiliated to ISUOG from 2010. He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications in indexed journals. He is a Council Member on the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG) and represents the RCOG on the UK National Screening Committee and the DH Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle oversight committee. He is also the Clinical Lead for the development of the first dedicated high-throughput cfDNA screening NHS lab to undertake cfDNA aneuploidy screening in pregnancy (www.theSAFEtest.co.uk).

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Guy graduated form Cambridge University in 1984 and sub specialised in Fetal medicine under the supervision of Professor Kypros Nicolaides at Kings College Hospital, obtaining his MD in 1991.  He was appointed consultant in Fetal Medicine in 1996 at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, Guy was also the obstetric lead clinician for 10 years. he has published extensively and now combines his knowledge of fetal medicine with practical obstetrics having a particular interest in high risk pregnancies.

Raffaele Napolitano is a Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at UCLH, where he works on labour ward and in preterm birth, fetal medicine and late fetal growth restriction clinics. He completed his training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Naples, Federico II, Italy, and underwent subspecialist training in Maternal and Fetal Medicine in Oxford. He studied neurosonography during his PhD at the University of Naples and the University of Oxford. His research interests are in fetal growth restriction, ultrasound imaging, preterm labour and intrapartum care, working within the TRUFFLE group, INTERGROWTH-21st Project and GIFT-SURG. He is a member of the RCOG CSG on Intrapartum Care and the ISUOG Guidelines Committee. He is published in more than 30 journals.

At UCLH he  leads the 2 years Training Programme in Obstetrics Ultrasound and Fetal Medicine.

Dr Bharwani qualified with honours from Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ Medical School in 2000 and undertook basic medical training in London and Brighton, obtaining membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003. She completed general Radiology training at St George’s Hospital (2003-2008) and a fellowship in body MRI at Barts and The London NHS Trust (2008-2010), becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 2008. She is a Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT) and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.

Nishat’s radiological interests include gynaecological, oncological and urological imaging and she has published in these areas. She was head of specialty for Gynaecological and Urological Imaging at ICHNT between 2017 and 2023 and is now the department’s Cancer Imaging lead.

Nishat is heavily involved in teaching and has served as Training Programme Director for Radiology trainees on the ICHNT radiology training scheme and until recently as joint academic training lead for the London School of Radiology. Nishat delivers lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally.

Nishat was an examiner for the Royal College of Radiologists FRCR 2a examination and is now a member of the RCR Learning Committee for Clinical Radiology and an associate editor for Clinical Radiology.

Professor John Simpson studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He then trained in children’s and fetal cardiology at Guy’s Hospital, London and at the University of California, San Fransisco, USA.

He has been a consultant at Evelina London Children’s Hospital since 1999 and leads the echocardiography service. He has received an award for National Clinical Excellence.

His special interests include, prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease, imaging of congenital heart disease and 3D echocardiography.

Consultant in Clinical Genetics at St Georges’s Hospital NHS Trust with a special interest in dysmorphology, primary lymphoedema, prenatal diagnosis and cancer genetics. Sahar trained at Nottingham University Medical School and has an MSc in Medical Genetics from the Institute of Child Health, London.

Dr. Tsai-Goodman has been a Consultant Paediatric and Fetal Cardiologist for almost 18 years and joined the Royal Brompton Hospital in 2017. Her main interest lies with detecting abnormalities of the fetal heart as early as 15-16 weeks gestation as well as managing newborn infants and children with congenital heart defects.

Dr. Tsai-Goodman works closely with obstetricians and obstetric ultrasonographers to improve recognition of congenital heart disease before birth and has delivered lectures, hands-on training and live scans at local and national level. She was one of the members of the fetal cardiac subcommittee for the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Program (FASP) that compiled the national guidelines on fetal cardiac screening.

Dr. Tsai-Goodman’s training in paediatric cardiology occurred mainly in Bristol with an additional 15 months’ period at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the USA which is one of the leading children’s hospitals for paediatric and fetal cardiology in the world. During that time, she undertook subspecialty training in cardiac MRI, echocardiography and fetal cardiology. She was also awarded the Madeine Steel Fellowship in 2013 which allowed her to join the Cardiac MRI team at Toronto Sick Children’s Hospital to conduct some research in fetal cardiac MRI.

She was awarded the Doctorate of Medicine by the University of Bristol in 2004 and she has widely published her research in peer-review journals. She completed her MSc degree in Genomics Medicine at Imperial College in 2019 with the intention of combining the latest research in human genomics with her clinical expertise in paediatric and fetal cardiology.

Dr Tsai-Goodman has a great interest in medical education and is currently the Director of Medical Education for the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. Previously, she was the Deputy Dean of South Bristol Academy which is part of University of Bristol Medical School and the Training Program Director for Paediatric Cardiology for the South West of England.

Consultant in Clinical Genetics at St George’s Hospital NHS Trust with over 15 years experience in developmental paediatrics, prenatal/pre-implantation diagnosis, cardiac and cancer genetics. Tessa qualified at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School and is research active with over 30 publications in the field of clinical genetics.

Alison qualified as a Radiographer in 1981 working at Charring Cross Hospital London until 1983. She moved to St Thomas’s Hospital to train as an Ultra sonographer in 1985 and worked in a variety of hospitals. Alison joined UDS in 1992 specialising in Obstetric and Gynaecology Ultrasound.

Gordon has worked  in Obstetric and gynaecological ultrasound for over 30 years.

and was superintendent of the ultrasound department at Central Middlesex hospital for 15 years.

He currently works 3 days in the NHS at Northwick Park Hospital and 2 days in private practice.

Gordon is currently involved in obstetric ultrasound audit at Northwick Park and is the cardiac champion for the obstetric ultrasound service which is a scheme to improve the pick up of cardiac defects in the obstetric ultrasound department

Sayli trained at St Georges Hospital in the Fetal Medicine unit under Professor Thilaganathan. She completed her PG diploma with a distinction in medical ultrasound from Kings college hospital London.  She continued to work at the FMU from 2011-2016 and moved to Brighton-Sussex university Hospital in 2016 where she splits her time with working at UDS.

Lorraine trained as a nurse at University College Hospital and as a midwife at St George’s Hospital qualifying in 1990. She completed her postgraduate diploma in ultrasound at Southbank University and has worked as a sonographer at the Harris Birthright Centre at kings NHS trust since 1992 Lorraine is highly skilled in all aspects of obstetric and gynaecology scanning.

Jill joined the clinic in July 2012 and is a registered nurse with over 20 years experience including 12 years working in the Obstetric and Gynaecology unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Sue has been at UDS since January 1998. Prior to coming to UDS, Sue worked as personal assistant to Professor Stuart Campbell, Head of the Academic Unit of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at King’s College Hospital London.

Sharon has worked at UDS since 2007. She has worked as receptionist in many Harley Street practices over the last ten years since coming to London from Glasgow.

Rashaun has worked at UDS Dec 2019. Prior to working at UDS Rashaun worked for the NHS as an receptionist and administrator.

Edit joined UDS in 2022. Prior to working at UDS Edit gained experience working in Hospitality and has also spent time working as a GP receptionist.