Clinical specialist sonographer in Obstetric ultrasound/PhD scholar
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland
Fiona Cody MSc/ PhD scholar
Fetal Medicine sonographer/ Researcher
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Rotunda Hospital Dublin, Ireland
I am an experienced clinical speciailist sonographer working in a fetal medicine department in a tertiary care unit in Dublin, Ireland for over 16 years. I have worked also on many local and national research projects with RCSI/The Rotunda Hospital and perinatal Ireland consortium to date. I am a named author on over 35 publications with 3 first author publicationa in obstetric research.
I have been working in a dedicated fetal medicine/fetal echcardiography clinic for over 2 years with a fetal medicine specialist and a paediatric cardiologist to gain more expertise in prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease and fetal echocardiography.
I am currently in year 3 of my PhD with RCSI and the title of my thesis is " Improving the prenatal detection of critical congenital heart defects (CCHD) across Ireland – Investigation of current policies and implementation of a national consensus- based targeted fetal echocardiography screening strategy."