Faculty

The Cambridge Perinatal Group is made up of clinicians involved in perinatal education, training and research.

Anna Curley

Anna Curley is a neonatal consultant In Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and overall director of Cambridge Perinatal Group. As a clinician she has a special interest in neonatal echocardiography. Primary research interests are neonatal respiratory medicine and neonatal haematology. She gained an MD in “The Role of Inflammation in the Evolution of Chronic Lung Disease in the Premature Neonate” in 2001. She is Research and Development Lead for Neonatal Services, Cambridge and is chief investigator for PlaNeT 2 a multi centre randomised controlled trial of platelet transfusion thresholds in neonates.     Other research interests included necrotising enterocolitis, chronic lung disease and transfusion related outcomes. 

Topun Austin

Dr Austin is the lead consultant for Neonatal Neurology in Cambridge. His research interests are in monitoring and imaging the developing brain to identify infants at risk of cerebral injury. He also is the project lead for the East of England Neonatal Neuroprotection Team, developing a coordinated service for neonatal neuroprotection, follow up and family centred care.

He has considerable teaching experience: as a Clinical Lecturer at University College London he was involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate education and training. He is currently an NLS instructor and also supervises undergraduates at Cambridge in neurobiology.

Angela D'Amore

Angela D’Amore is a neonatal consultant specialising in neonatal neurodevelopmental follow up. She leads a multidisciplinary team in regular follow up of high risk infants. She represents the Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire perinatal network on the South East of England Two Year Outcomes Group. Her research interests include encephalopathy, effects of growth restriction and outcomes of the very low birth weight infants. She is an experienced teacher who regularly teaches on national life support courses.

Christoph Lees

Christoph Lees MD MRCOG is a Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal-Maternal Medicine, and lead in Fetal Medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. He trained at Guy’s, King’s College and St George’s Hospitals in London and obtained subspecialty accreditation at the Harris Birthright Centre for Fetal Medicine. He has authored Pregnancy Questions and Answers (Dorling Kindersley 1997, 2001 & 2007), Making Sense of Obstetric Doppler (Arnold 2002) and contributed to Dewhurst’s Textbook (Blackwell 2007,2011). His 90+ research papers include Doppler screening for intra-uterine growth restriction, pre-eclampsia and ultrasound prenatal diagnosis. With colleagues at Addenbrooke’s, he runs practical and theory courses in ultrasound and fetal medicine in the UK and abroad in locations such as Peru, El Salvador and India. Christoph is National Ultrasound Officer for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Edile Murdoch

Edile Murdoch is an honorary consultant neonatologist at the Royal infirmary of Edinburgh. She trained in London before becoming a consultant at the Rosie Hospital Cambridge 2001-2011. She has an interest in the interface between fetal medicine and neonatology through her extended training in the departments of Fetal Medicine and Neonatology at UCLH, 1999-2001 and then as lead neonatologist for fetal medicine in Cambridge. She has published work on palliative care, perinatal mesenteric Doppler and long term follow-up of antenatally diagnosed congenital anomalies. Edile was asked to be Chair of the BAPM working party who developed the framework for perinatal palliative care 2010.