Professor Alan Cameron MD FRCOG FRCP (Glas)

Alan was a Consultant Obstetrician in Glasgow for 28 years. He retired from the NHS in 2019. He undertook his subspeciality training in Maternal Fetal Medicine in the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. After this he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Glasgow. As an NHS consultant he retained an active research profile and he was rewarded with an Honorary Professorship from the University of Glasgow in 2007. His main research interests are in prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy. He was the Scottish Members representative on RCOG Council from 1996-2002 and was President of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society from 2005-08. He chaired the Scottish Committee of the RCOG from 2009-13. From 2013–16 he was Vice President for Clinical Quality at the RCOG. He was the co-principal investigator of the flagship RCOG project ‘Each Baby Counts’. After completing his term as Vice President he returned to clinical practice in Glasgow retiring from his consultant post at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in 2019 He was the local President when the European Board of Obstetrics and Gynaecology took place in Glasgow in 2014. He remains involved with EBCOG and was the chairman of the Scientific Committee for EBCOG Congress in Athens in 2021. He was the chair of the scientific committee of the International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA)/International Society for the study and prevention of perinatal and infant death (ISPID) which held its bi annual world conference in Glasgow in June 2018. In 2020 Alan was the local president of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISUOG) virtual congress. In 2019 he was appointed as the national clinical lead for obstetrics to the Maternity and Children Quality Improvement Collaborative (MCQIC), part of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) at Healthcare Improvement Scotland. This work is predominately around stillbirth reduction, neonatal mortality and postpartum haemorrhage. He finished his term in this post in April 2022 In 2019 the Welsh Health Secretary appointed Alan as the obstetric lead for an independent review of a Health Board’s maternity and neonatal services. This remains an ongoing commitment. Alan has been a speciality maternity advisor to Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) since 2019 and was appointed as clinical advisor to HSIB in 2020. He has held numerous research grants and has published over 100 research articles in peer reviewed medical journals mainly in the fields of high risk pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy.