Prizes

Prizes awarded at the BMFMS Annual Conference

2026

Maternal Medicine

Oral – Lucy Singh
Risk-stratified, timed birth at term to prevent pre-eclampsia: a Bayesian post-hoc analysis of the PREVENT-PE trial
Poster – Naheed Visram
Pulsenmore Self-Scan Proven Safe and Effective in HOLA (Home Ultrasound Assessment) – USA-based Multicenter Study

Fetal Medicine

Oral - William Cook
Pioneering prenatal therapy for spinal muscular atrophy: the UK experience with risdiplam
Poster - Kate Navaratnam
Non-small for gestational age fetuses with raised umbilical artery pulsatility index from 32 weeks: Experience of a tertiary referral center

Pregnancy Outcome

Oral – Sam MathewLynn
Early prediction of fetal growth restriction and pre-eclampsia with automated first trimester placental ultrasound biomarkers: results from model development and external validation in the FirstPLUS and OxPLUS studies
Poster - Laura van der Krogt
Incidence and Outcomes of Transabdominal Cerclage: Analysis of the UKOSS Dataset

Labour and Delivery

Oral – Xuan Zhao
Gestational age at term, fetal size, and neurodevelopmental and academic outcomes from infancy to adolescence
Oral Poster – Emily Hotton
Safety and Performance of the OdonAssist™ device for Assisted Vaginal Birth: clinical introduction at six hospitals in England

Quality Improvement

Oral – Jenny Myers
Implementation of the Manchester Maternity Assessment Triaging Tool (MMATT): a comparative analysis
Poster – Aparna Vimal
ELECTIVIST Re-Audit 2025: Sustained Effectiveness of a Risk Stratification System for Elective Caesarean Section Booking Despite Rising Caesarean Rates

Late breaking

Vicky Hodgetts Morton
C-STITCH2: Emergency Cervical Cerclage to Prevent Miscarriage and Preterm Birth - a Randomised Controlled Trial, Observational Cohort and Minimal Dataset

2025

Maternal Medicine

Oral - Luzia Borges Manna
Steatotic Liver Disease After Gestational Diabetes: Prevalence and Determinants in the Postpartum Period
Oral Poster - Imogen Cowdell
Association of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors with adverse perinatal outcomes in pregnant women living with HIV: systematic review and meta-analysis

Fetal Medicine

Oral - Sara Sonner
Findings prior to the introduction of sequencing retrospectively (ODYSSEY) – a cohort study
Oral Poster - Jack Le Vance
Remote maternal-fetal monitoring for high-risk pregnancies: a feasibility study

Pregnancy Outcome

Oral - Rosemary Townsend
Long term educational needs of babies born small at term: the case for enhanced school support
Oral Poster - Alexandra Emms
Should repeat cervical cerclage be inserted when the primary cerclage fails, to prevent pregnancy loss and preterm birth? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Labour and Delivery

Oral Poster - Sana Usman
Intrapartum caesarean delivery model: Two longitudinal studies in over 500 women

Late Breaking highest scoring

Rebecca Man
Childbirth acquired perineal trauma (CHAPTER): a uk, multi-centre, prospective cohort study up to six weeks postpartum

2024

Maternal Medicine

Oral - Jane Currie
Severe pyelonephritis in pregnancy – preliminary data from a prospective observational study.
Oral Poster- Laura Skinner
Changes in serum creatinine during pregnancy and at birth are predictive of adverse outcomes - early results from the AKID prospective cohort study

Fetal Medicine

Oral - Grace Westland
The use of folic acid supplementation for the prevention of non-neural tube midline congenital abnormalities: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 2,293,021 mothers
Oral Poster - Jack Hamer
Placental architectural characteristics and outcomes in monochorionic twins undergoing laser ablation for twin-twin transfusion syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Pregnancy Outcome

Oral - Ellie Cushion
Evaluating suitability of electronic cigarettes as a substitute for tobacco cigarettes in reducing preterm birth risk in pregnancy- a systematic review and meta-analysis
Oral Poster- Hannah Rosen O’Sullivan
Cervical remodelling biomarkers to predict spontaneous pre-term birth

Labour and Delivery

Oral Poster - Graham Tydeman
The need for vaginal cerclage standardisation increases

Late Breaking highest scoring

Jason Gardosi and Siobhan Quenby
Induction of Labour for large-for-gestational age: Results of the Big Baby Randomised Controlled Trial.

2022

Maternal Medicine

“Recurrent stillbirth due to chronic histiocytic intervillositis: discovery of a purified maternal alloantibody against placental antigen”; Emily Cornish
“Examining the impact of adopting the RCOG COVID-19 GDM care pathway(s) on pregnancy outcomes: A multicentre cohort study, UK”; Niamh Mclennan

Fetal Medicine

“Differences in risk factors for stillbirth between preterm and term births – a secondary analysis of the DESiGN Trial”; Chivon Winsloe
“Fetal ventricular strain in monochorionic twins with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and discordant growth restriction – a useful adjunct to clinical assessment?”; Sarah Newell

Pregnancy Outcome

“A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Emergency Cervical Cerclage”; Nicole Pilarski/Gurkiran Bhogal
“Effects of race and ethnicity on perinatal outcomes in high- and upper-middle-income countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis of 2,198,655 pregnancies” Jameela Sheika (also winner of the Medical Student Prize)
“Cervical stiffness measurements to predict risk of spontaneous preterm birth”; Hannah Rosen O’Sullivan

Labour and Delivery (In honour of Professor Fiona Denison)

“Detection of anal sphincter injury using a sensorised surgical glove”; Shireen Jaufuraully
“A retrospective cohort study investigating the maternal obstetric and cardiovascular, and fetal outcomes of Fontan pregnancies”; Tamlyn Knight
"Association of induction of labour in singleton pregnancy with subsequent risk of childhood special educational need: Scottish population cohort study”; Sarah Murray

Late breaking session

“SuPPoRT: a multi-centre randomised controlled trial to compare three treatments: cervical cerclage, cervical pessary and vaginal progesterone, for the prevention of preterm birth in women who develop a short cervix”; Natasha Hezelgrave
“Which suture thread should we use at cervical cerclage the theory and the practical”; Vicky Hodgetts Morton and Graham Tydeman

2019

Oral presentation prizes

Mat Cauldwell, Chelsea & Westminster, Maternal Medicine
Alexandra Ridout, KCL, Pregnancy Outcome
Lucy Chappell, KCL, Late Breaking Session
Brian Dromey, UCL, Fetal Medicine
Victoria Hodgetts Morton, Birmingham, Labour & Delivery

e-Poster Prizes

Kate Duhig, KCL, Maternal Medicine
Sarah Murray, Edinburgh, Pregnancy Outcome
Adalina Sacco, UCL, Fetal Medicine
Caroline Fox, Birmingham, Labour & Delivery
Oral/Poster Prizes
Nicola Vousden, KCL, Richard Johanson Award