Lucy Mackillop

I am a Consultant Obstetric Physician, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford; Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; President of the UK’s MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society and a senior leader in the Med Tech Industry.

I trained in General, Renal and Obstetric Medicine in Oxford, London and Sydney before taking up her consultant post in 2008.

I have published over 120 peer-reviewed articles, national and international guidelines, book chapters and e-learning resources on a wide variety of medical conditions in pregnancy. I Chair for the Joint Committee for Obstetric Medicine with The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and co-wrote the RCP’s curriculum for the diploma in Obstetric Medicine. 

My research interests include the role of remote monitoring solutions in women with medical problems in pregnancy and construction of evidence-based algorithms to predict acutely unwell women in pregnancy and the immediate puerperium.

I led the development and evaluation of a patient app-to-clinician digital system (GDm-Health) for the management of women with diabetes in pregnancy through to commercialisation and scale; now used in over half of maternity units in England.

I have led several Med Tech companies as Chief Medical Officer and thrive at the intersection of academia, innovation and clinical care.