Professor Shakila Thangaratinam MRCOG, MD, PhD, FRCP Edin

Personal Statement

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam is Deputy Executive Dean of Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, Professor of Women's Health, and University Lead for India portfolio.

In her previous role as Professor at Queen Mary University of London (2012-2019), Professor Thangaratinam established the Barts Research Centre for Women’s Health (BARC). She established Katie’s Team, a dedicated Patient and Public Involvement group in East London, whose members contribute to NIHR Boards and studies. More recently, she established the Dame Hilda Lloyd Network, which brings together medical and midwifery students and trainees, school students, and senior clinical academics involved in Women’s Health Research in the West Midlands.

Professor Thangaratinam’s work focuses on prediction, prevention and treatment of complications in mothers with pre-eclampsia, epilepsy, diabetes, and obesity. She leads large global collaborative networks such as the NIHR-funded International Weight Management in Pregnancy (i-WIP) collaborative group (40 researchers, 16 countries, >50,000 women), with the largest live repository of individual data and the IPPIC (International Prediction of Complications in Pregnancy) collaborative network (73 collaborators, 21 countries, >5 million pregnancies). She has accrued research income of over £20 million, and published in first or last author position in Lancet (2022, 2019, 2015, 2012), BMJ (2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016, 2012, 2011), Lancet Global Health (2017), Lancet Haematology (2021), and multiple HTA monographs. Professor Thangaratinam was awarded the NIHR Senior Investigator Award in March 2021.