Basky Thilaganathan

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Professor Basky Thilaganathan, MD, FRCOG

About Basky

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).

Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles

Basky features prominently in the new Channel 4 documentary, Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles  where a documentary crew capture the extraordinary pioneering surgery on babies who are still inside the womb, saving lives before they are born.