University College London and University College Hospital
Dimitrios Siassakos is a Professor and Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics at University College London and University College Hospital. His clinical work is devoted to managing labour ward, and to looking after women with previous adverse pregnancy outcome, to optimize their chance of a healthy subsequent pregnancy.
He has developed three national guidelines, and mandatory courses in the current national RCOG training curriculum. He co-led the development and dissemination of UK-wide (and globally adopted) courses, including PROMPT, ROBUST, ART&CRAFT (advanced operative birth and head disimpaction) and SUPPORT (bereavement care). He has led faculties delivering globally training in shoulder dystocia, umbilical cord prolapse, anal sphincter injury diagnosis and repair, and other high risk situations.
Professor Siassakos lead a comprehensive portfolio of research in stillbirth care and prevention including initiatives relevant to diabetes and glucose dysmetabolism, prevention of perinatal brain injury, patient involvement in serious incident reviews, intrapartum care and operative birth, safety of maternity services, preterm birth, and technology-enhanced care.
He has held grants in excess of £31m and published more than 100 papers including in the Lancet Stillbirth Series. He works closely with healthcare engineers to design novel tools that aim to improve the safety of birth using nanosensors, MRI, AI, and virtual reality.