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Dr Gillian Stephen

Consultant Obstetrician BSc, MBChB, MRCOG
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Dr Stephen is a Consultant Obstetrician who has a special interest in multiple pregnancies, perinatal mental health and fetal medicine

She has completed the Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate, having completed the excellence in report writing, cross examination, courtroom skills, and civil law courses.

She is instructed by Claimants and Defendants in clinical negligence and personal injury cases.

Dr Stephen is happy to opine on causation, condition and prognosis, breach of duty and liability.

Dr Stephen has experience in cases relating to:

  • Intrapartum care
  • Delay in diagnosis
  • Fetal medicine
  • Multiple pregnancy management
  • Maternal mental health
  • High risk antenatal care
  • Early neonatal deaths
  • Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE)
  • Abnormal CTG assessment
  • Mismanagement of DVT/P
  • Failure to discuss risks (foetal macrosomia (large baby))
  • Trauma relating to delivery (mother and baby)
  • Traumatic births
  • Failure to expedite delivery following abnormal red flags:
    – Abnormal CTG
    – Abnormal FBS
    – Breech/footing deliveries

Dr Stephen’s availability is 1 – 2 weeks and has a report turnaround time of 4 – 6 weeks.

Clinical Experience

Dr Stephen is working at one of the biggest maternity care providers in the UK. Currently based at Oxford Road Campus (ORC) that deliver approx. 10,000 babies per annum. She provides tertiary level care to women and babies with complex medical and surgical problems.

Dr Stephen is directly responsible for managing the busy delivery unit, triaging the development and antenatal assessment unit, she oversees 20 delivery rooms, 4 of which are designed for high dependency cases.

Dr Stephen is an advocate for women’s mental health, she collaborated to helped set up the current model for the obstetric perinatal mental health clinic as a subspeciality trainee.

She is responsible for chairing the monthly labour ward forum. This in turn creates discussions to improve the safety and quality of care provided.

Dr Stephen is a member for the Greater Manchester Perinatal and Parent-Infant Mental Health Expert reference group. She is also chair of an obstetric steering group contributing to the development of GMEC Strategic Clinical Network Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health Guide.

Publications

  • Transcriptomic profiling of Human Choriodecidua during Term Labor: Inflammation as a Key Driver of Labor. Oct 2014. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology G. Stephen, S, Lui, L. Harris, R. Jones
  • Neonatal Outcomes following Rotational Instrumental Delivery June 2014 Archives of Diseases in Childhood-fetal and neonatal addition 99 (supp 1) R. Conroy, E. Redwood, C. Tower, G. Stephen
  • Consequences of Failed Instrumental Delivery: How bad is it? April 2013 Archives of Diseases in Childhoodfetal and neonatal edition 98 G. Stephen, R. Conroy, S. Vause, C. Tower
  • Successful Treatment of Two Cases of Severe Aortic Stenosis in Pregnancy. April 2013 Archives of Diseases in Childhood- fetal and neonatal edition 98 S. Cox, G. Stephen, S. Vause, B. Clarke
  • Case Based Learning Fetal Infection: a pragmatic approach to recognition and management Gillian Stephen and Joanna Gillham (2012) Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine 299-303
  • Atrial Myxoma in Early Pregnancy April 2012 Archives of Diseases in Childhood- fetal and neonatal edition 97 H. Kither, G. Stephen, S. Vause, B. Clarke
  • Outcomes of Pregnancy Following Maternal Fontan Repair April 2012 Archives of Diseases in Childhoodfetal and neonatal edition 97 G. Stephen, S. Vause, B. Clarke
  • Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) identifies Clinical Deterioration Prior to Development of Acute Unexpected Pulmonary Oedema April 2012 Archives of Diseases in Childhood- fetal and neonatal edition 97 S. Worton, L. Higgins, G. Stephen, J.C. Gillham
  • Pregnancy Outcome after Maternal Childhood Correction of Transposition of the Great Arteries April 2012 Archives of Diseases in Childhood- fetal and neonatal edition 97 G. Stephen, S. Vause, B. Clarke
  • Macrophages Infiltrate the Human and Rat Decidua in Term and Preterm Labor: Evidence that Decidual Inflammation Precedes Labor Feb 2012 Biology of Reproduction 86(2):39 S. Hamilton, G. Stephen, O. Shynlova, R. Jones
  • Macrophage Infiltration of the Decidua: early event in the labour process June 2011 Archives of Diseases in Childhood- fetal and neonatal edition 96 S. Hamilton, C. Tower, G. Stephen, R. Jones
  • Theca-Lutein cysts complicating recovery after a Termination of a Triploid Pregnancy. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2009 29(2):158-159 G. Stephen, M.J. Willett
  • Postnatal maternal readmissions(abstract) Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.2006 26(1): G. Stephen, J. Charova, F.R. Clarke

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