About Us

• Charlotte has previously worked in Research for eleven years. For three years she was the coordinating manager for Reproductive Health & Childbirth research which included strong links with Maternal Medicine
• Charlotte went on to operationally lead the delivery of clinical research as a senior manager in Research & Innovation. This included large multi centre clinical trials from set up to end of study status across all health care specialties at the Manchester Royal Infirmary
• Charlotte has experience of working with large national networks. She has strategically led research delivery by forming strong professional links with the Greater Manchester Clinical Research Network (CRN) that feeds into the CRN National Key Performance Indicators
• Prior to these roles Charlotte completed a PhD at the University of Manchester.

Consultant Obstetrician, Obstetric lead for Clinical Governance and Clinical Sub-Dean, responsible for undergraduate education programme at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

Mark has worked as a Consultant obstetrician for 7 years.

• His main area of interest is in High-Risk Obstetrics, Maternal Medicine and Risk Management
• Mark was Obstetric Lead at Liverpool Women’s Hospital for risk management and clinical governance from 2006 to 2011.
  He is fully conversant with all aspects of general antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care, and the implementation of national guidance.
  Mark is specifically trained and has extensive experience in the provision of antenatal care of women with medical disorders, especially diabetes and hypertensive conditions.

• I trained at the University of Birmingham and qualified in 2004. My core medical and specialist training in Diabetes and Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine was in the North-West of England. I was appointed as a Consultant Physician in 2017 at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
• During my training I developed an interest in maternal medicine. My appointment as a consultant included joining the tertiary diabetes in pregnancy clinic at St. Mary’s Hospital in Manchester. In 2019 alongside obstetric colleagues we set up the maternal medicine clinic and maternal medicine team to provide MDT care to women in Greater Manchester with medical problem in pregnancy, particularly those not already served by specialist maternal medicine clinics. Shortly after I received national running to formally train as an Obstetric Physician. I obtained a Diploma in Obstetric Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and now work within the North-West Maternal Medicine Network. I also continue to work with the Endocrine and Metabolic Bone teams at Manchester Royal.
• My role an obstetric physician is to provide the link between obstetric and the medical teams to ensure women get appropriate and timely care. I enjoy supporting my colleagues in managing women giving them the confidence to give women the most appropriate care. This reaches out beyond St. Mary’s to our provider hospitals within Greater Manchester and beyond. I love being part of the MDT as we bring together different skills and knowledge and as a result enhance women’s care.
• I also enjoy education and promoting this new speciality to junior colleagues and allied health professionals, and we have a steady stream coming to spend time with us. I am proud that we are now a pilot training centre for the Obstetric Medicine credential and have our first trainee. I want to bring Obstetric Physicians to the North of England and particularly the Northwest to ensure equity of care for women living in areas of deprivation and for our women from ethnic minority populations.

Emma undertook advanced training in maternal medicine in the Mersey region, and in 2019 was appointed as a Consultant Obstetrician at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Her main clinical interests are haematological disorders in pregnancy and the management of patients with diabetes and endocrine problems in pregnancy. Alongside colleagues from LUHFT, Dr McGoldrick runs the joint obstetric Haematology and Diabetes & Endocrine services at LWH. Dr McGoldrick became the maternal medicine lead at Liverpool Women’s Hospital in April 2022. The LWH launched as a MMC in July 2022 and host a weekly maternal medicine MDT meeting.

She is an NIHR Research Scholar, who graduated in Medicine from the University of Liverpool in 2006 and obtained Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians in 2012. During her postgraduate training she undertook research into the translation of evide nce into clinical practice, with a specific focus on antenatal corticosteroids and was awarded a PhD by the University of Auckland in 2017. She has presented both nationally and internationally and published in peer reviewed journals. She is a member of MOMs, BMFMs and the BSH SIG in Obstetric Haematology.