Speaker BIO:
Lyn Chitty is in the unique position of being the only UK Professor of Genetics and Fetal Medicine, and was appointed to this chair at the UCL Institute of Child Health in 2009. She is also Consultant in Fetal Medicine at UCLH NHS Foundation Trust. She has published extensively on prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound screening of fetal abnormalities, specifically skeletal abnormalities, and was responsible for creating the fetal size standards now in use throughout the UK and beyond. Her main current research interest is in NIPD and she leads a 5‐year NIHR programme grant (‘Rapid Accurate Prenatal non‐Invasive Diagnosis (RAPID) – an integrated project to refine and implement safer antenatal testing’) which is designed to develop standards for routine implementation of this exciting new technology. A member of the National Screening Committee on Routine Fetal Anomaly Scanning for some years, she is also an editor of the journal Prenatal Diagnosis, and on the Board of Directors of the ISPD. She has recently been appointed Clinical Director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network: North Thames.
