Research themes and background Professor Sarah Stock Professor in Maternal and Fetal Health Honorary Consultant and Subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine Contact details Social media: Twitter: @sarahjestock Email: Sarah.Stock@ed.ac.uk Research focus My research focuses on reducing preterm birth and stillbirth, and improving treatments to prevent complications in pregnancy. Each year more than 15 million babies are born preterm, and 2.5 million are stillborn. My aim is to develop better ways of predicting and diagnosing pregnancy complications enabling safe, personalised care for mothers and babies. Current research themes Program director In Utero, Wellcome Leap Data driven approaches to maternity research Antenatal corticosteroids: Benefits, harms and reducing unnecessary treatment COVID-19 in pregnancy in Scotland: effects of COVID-19 infection and COVID-19 vaccination on pregnancy and childhood outcomes International perinatal outcomes in the pandemic: wider impacts of lockdown on preterm birth and baby deaths Induction of labour: optimal setting and methods of induction of labour Medicines in pregnancy: addressing knowledge gaps about the safety, optimum dosage and long-term effects of medications in pregnancy Further details of Sarah’s projects, outputs and collaborations are found on her web page on the University of Edinburgh Research Explorer HTML This article was published on 2024-09-10
