Liona Chiu Yee Poon MBBS, MD, MRCOG, Cert RCOG

Liona Poon was awarded MBBS from the University of London in 2002 and undertook her specialty training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in London. She gained a 3-year training fellowship from the Fetal Medicine Foundation and during this time, established a major screening program for early detection of preeclampsia, which led to a Doctorate of Medicine (Research) in 2011. She then undertook subspecialty training in maternal-fetal medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with Mr. TG Teoh and Professor KH Nicolaides as supervisors.

Her main research interests are in the prediction and prevention of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. These include developing screening models for the prediction of aneuploidies, preeclampsia, fetal growth restriction, gestational diabetes, macrosomia, stillbirth, spontaneous preterm birth, and induced labor. She is currently conducting a pan-European multicentre randomized controlled trial of Aspirin vs. placebo in the prevention of preterm preeclampsia (ASPIRE), which is funded by the EC FP7 scheme. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the top quartile of international journals in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Hypertension.