Melanie Nana
Melanie Nana is an NIHR Research Training Fellow currently studying the mechanisms underpinning the neurocognitive and metabolic consequences of children born to women with severe Hyperemesis Gravidarum at King’s College London, supervised by Professor Catherine Williamson.
In 2020 she undertook the obstetric medicine fellowship at St Thomas’ Hospital where she was taught obstetric medicine by Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy. During that time she completed the RCP credential in obstetric medicine.
Melanie has several publications relating to obstetric medicine including the largest study exploring the lived-experience of women with hyperemesis gravidarum, a BMJ ‘State of the Art Review’ on COVID-19 in pregnancy and work relating to antiplatelet use in pregnancy. She has published chapters on COVID-19 in pregnancy in the Oxford Textbook of Medicine and pituitary and adrenal disease in pregnancy in EndoText. She is a co-author of the European Guideline for Liver Disease, the RCOG ‘The management of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum’ guidelines and developed the management flow charts for the RCOG ‘COVID-19 in pregnancy’.
She has a passion for medical education and completed the RCP Doctors as Educators accreditation in 2014 and enjoys lecturing on the topic of medical problems in pregnancy across Europe and internationally.
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19-Nov-2024