Leanne Bricker MB BCh, MRCOG

Dr Leanne Bricker was born in, and undertook undergraduate training in South Africa and moved to the UK where she undertook specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She is a subspecialist in Fetal Medicine and for 10 years was Director of the Fetal Medicine Unit of Liverpool Women's Hospital, UK, the largest women’s hospital in the UK. She moved to Abu Dhabi in February 2014 to become Chair of Fetal Medicine at Corniche Hospital.

She has been actively involved in research and has published over 60 papers, abstracts and book chapters. She is an expert in the management of multiple pregnancy having led the tertiary level multidisciplinary multiple pregnancy service in Liverpool and has been involved in the development of the UK National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidelines and quality standards for the management of multiple pregnancy and is currently updating the RCOG green top guidelines for the management of monochorionic twin pregnancy. Dr Bricker is planning to introduce advanced fetal medicine techniques at Corniche Hospital including fetoscopic laser treatment for the rare complication twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.