Helena M. Gardiner MD, PhD

Helena Gardiner, M.D., Ph.D., is a world-renowned fetal cardiologist who specializes in fetal echocardiography. Her clinical and research interests include fetal vascular programming in monochorionic twins, fetal growth restriction and the use of percutaneous fetal valvuloplasty. Her recent translational research interests include MRI and MRS assessment of the fetal brain and neuro-developmental outcomes in babies with a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome; novel aspects of imaging the fetal heart early in gestation; and cardiovascular functional assessment later in childhood following fetal surgery for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

Dr. Gardiner graduated from medical school in Wales, United Kingdom, and went on to train in pediatrics and neonatal medicine in the U.K. and the Bahamas. After training and accreditation in pediatric cardiology, she was awarded a Medical Research Council (MRC) Visiting Scientist Fellowship at the University of Lund in Sweden, where she studied vascular programming of the fetal circulation. In 2002 she received a Ph.D. from Lund University. Dr. Gardiner is a member of the American Heart Association, the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG), secretary of the Fetal Working Group of the Association of European Paediatric Cardiology and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.