The 2025 Summer Term Cardiac Function Seminar series talks will be back Thursday 22nd May 2025 when we will be welcoming Associate Professor Manisha Nair, Oxford Population Health (Nuffield Department of Population Health).
Talk Title: Effect of maternal iron deficiency and anaemia on maternal and fetal heart
Talk Time: 13:00 – 14:00 UK time (please note the different time of this talk)
Location: Hybrid Meeting (Hybrid – online Via Teams and Meeting room 427/428 4th Floor ICTEM, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road W12 0NN
Please note the seminar organizers and the Head of Section would like to request that attendees will in the majority of cases be physically present in the seminar room and a participation via Teams shall be the exception.
Short Bio:
Manisha is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Population Health. She is a clinician by training and specialised in clinical epidemiology and global population health research. She was a Medical Research Council (MRC) Career Development Fellow and recipient of an MRC Transition Support award. She established and leads a research and training platform for maternal and perinatal health research in India (called MaatHRI) and is using this platform to conduct large epidemiological studies. Her work focuses on improving the health of mothers and babies globally through innovative and translational research, with key areas including anaemia and iron deficiency in pregnancy, cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy and fetal heart development.
Talk Description:
Anaemia in pregnancy is a major problem in all countries globally and iron deficiency is a major cause. The talk will cover our research in India and in the UK investigating the effect of maternal iron deficiency and anaemia on fetal heart defects and maternal heart failure.
If you are joining online and you have not yet signed up to join the Cardiac Function Seminar Team group in order to participate in the seminar online please register via the linked tab on the left or here which will provide access to the Team.
Please do this ahead of time of the talk.
The Cardiac Function Seminar Team
(Prof. Thomas Brand, Natasha Richmond)
