Twin and Higher-order Pregnancies (PDF)

Asma Khalil, MBBCh MD MRCOG MSc, is a Professor of Maternal and Fetal Medicine and head of the Multiple Pregnancy service at St George's Hospital, London, the primary referral centre for prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy for multiple pregnancy in the South West region. She has organised several successful educational courses on "Multiple Pregnancy", and is a frequently invited national and international speaker on the management of twin pregnancy. She was awarded a NICE (National Institute of Health and Care Excellence) Fellowship (2013-2016) and was a member of the NICE Quality Standards Committee. She is involved in many committee and advisory roles including Expert Adviser for the NICE Centre for Guidelines, and is an International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) Ambassador. She has successfully led to completion an ISUOG Clinical Standard on the role of ultrasound in the management of twin pregnancy. In addition to serving as Chief Investigator for a number of multi-centre studies focusing on twins and multiple pregnancy, she set up the UK's first national Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome Registry.



Liesbeth Lewi, MD PhD, is a Professor of Fetal Medicine and head of the Multiple Pregnancy service at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, which is a national and international referral centre for complicated multiple twin pregnancies. She obtained a PhD degree in 2008 with her work on placental examination in complicated monochorionic twin pregnancies. She is a frequently invited speaker at national and international meetings on the management of twin pregnancies. She has published extensively on the subject of monochorionic pregnancies in several peer reviewed journals and international textbooks.



Enrico Lopriore is a Professor of Neonatology and Fetal Medicine and head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). He completed medical school and his doctoral research at