Professor of Fetal Medicine
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Aris Papageorghiou, MBChB, MD, FRCOG, FAIUM (Hon)
Aris is an Academic, Clinician-Scientist and Inventor. He divides his time between Oxford University, where he leads a large research group and is Clinical Research Director of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute; and St George’s Hospital where he works clinically.
His research focuses on maternal, fetal and perinatal health using diverse methods, including basic science, clinical epidemiology, trials, knowledge transfer and implementation science. These have included large global projects in low resource settings using ultrasound, biomarkers and clinical methods to improve phenotyping and outcomes of fetal and newborn growth and development, including the INTERGROWTH project. Aris is a prolific academic with over 450 original articles, over 20,000 citations and an h-index of 93.
One of his major research interests is the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in pregnancy imaging and screening. For several years he has worked collaboratively with biomedical engineers on these problems and co-supervised many joint graduate students. Through this work, he co-founded the Oxford University spin-out, Intelligent Ultrasound.
He is Editor-in-Chief for BJOG; National Chair of the Expert Working Group in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the UK. He is an ISUOG Fellow having served as a trustee and officer; has received the prestigious Honorary Membership of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine; is a visiting Professor at Capital Medical University in Beijing; and Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Athens.