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Contact

Email: baskaran.thilaganathan@stgeorges.nhs.uk

Telephone: 020 8725 0071

Secretary: Michael O'Dath

Secretary email: Michael.ODath@stgeorges.nhs.uk

Secretary telephone: 020 8725 0071

Clinical interests

Clinical interests are focused on Maternal-Fetal medicine, with a particular focus on fetal growth restriction due to placental dysfunction, multiple pregnancy and preeclampsia (TED talk: http://bit.ly/2i1SqDk ).

Professional profile

Basky is the lead trainer for the Maternal-Fetal medicine sub-speciality training programme at St George’s Hospital and Editor-in Chief of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the medical journal affiliated to the International Society for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications in indexed journals. He represents the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology on the UK National Screening Committee and is the Clinical Lead for the development of the first dedicated high-throughput NIPT lab in the UK NHS (www.theSAFEtest.co.uk) to undertake cfDNA aneuploidy screening in pregnancy.

  • Member: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - 1995
  • Fellow: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - 2007
  • Personal Chair in fetal medicine University of London - 2008
  • Editor-in-chief Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology - 2010