The Team
Beth Albert
I trained as a general nurse in 1987 before qualifying as a midwife in 1991. I moved to Oxford soon after joining Oxford University Hospitals where I first met and worked with Prof Chris Redman and his team in April 1991. This is where my special interest in the Dawes-Redman computerised CTG system began.
From 2015 I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to present on the DR cCTG system at many UK and international conferences. I developed and presented the midwifery aspects on these occasions alongside the practical features of the system complementing the presentations from Prof Redman.
In 2016 I was recognised as the specialist midwife for Dawes-Redman training and education and have been developing the service for Dawes-Redman users since having identified an educational gap.
Between 2018-2020 I re-organised the Oxford DR configuration into a hospital wide, universal system (a world first) and led on this implementation of change project.
I left my role as Specialist maternal medicine midwife and lead midwife of the Feto-Maternal Medicine Department in Oxford at the end of February 2022 to take up the full time role of Specialist Midwife and Director of Dawes-Redman CTG Education at Oxford University.
Prof. Chris Redman
I joined the Department of the Regius Professor of Medicine (Prof Sir Richard Doll) in 1970. I moved as a University Lecturer and Consultant in Obstetric Medicine to the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1976. I became a Clinical Professor in 1992. In addition to my research interests I created the High Risk Service in the Women’s Centre and many of its associated clinics.
I am a Fellow ad eundum of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and recipient of the Chesley Award of the International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy (2000), the Barnes Award, of the International Society of Obstetric Medicine (2002), ex-President of the International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy (2006-2008) and Founder and Trustee of the charity Action on Pre-eclampsia.
Manu Vatish
Dr Manu Vatish is Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Oxford and Consultant at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is also Clinical Director for the National Institutes for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network in the Thames Valley and South Midlands. He sits on the NIHR National Reproductive Health & Childbirth committee. He is Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists College Tutor for Oxford, and Academic Training Programme Director for the Clinical Graduate School at Oxford. His clinical interest is high-risk pregnancy, with a special interest in preeclampsia; with several publications on angiogenic biomarkers in this disease as well as in the basic science underlying this condition. He has been involved in several high impact clinical trials. He is an experienced end-user of Dawes-Redman CTG and (together with Chris Redman) supervises new research in this area.
Dr Christina Aye
I studied Clinical Medicine and graduated from St John's College, Oxford University in 2006, beginning my specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Health Education Thames Valley two years later. From 2014-2017, I undertook a DPhil in Cardiovascular Medicine under the supervision of Professor Paul Leeson (Cardiovascular Medicine) and Dr Ingrid Granne (NDWRH) investigating the effects of pregnancy complications on fetal and neonatal cardiovascular development. During this time, I was awarded international and national prizes for my work including runner-up prize in the RCOG Blair Bell Research Society Prize in 2017.
I was appointed as an NIHR Academic Lecturer in 2017 alongside a Subspecialty Training post in Maternal Fetal Medicine in Health Education Thames Valley which I completed in 2021. I am currently a Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where I am also Fetal Monitoring Lead.
I continue to have a focussed clinical and research interest in fetal cardiology including the interpretation of the antepartum CTG and long-term cardiovascular consequences of pregnancy complications, such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and preterm birth, in the mother and child. I remain heavily involved in clinical research as an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford, Principal Investigator and co-investigator on a current MRC Programme Grant.
James Bland
Jim's has taken over the task of maintaining the growing clinical database of DR-CTG (now well over 100,000 records). He is the custodian of the Oxford CTG network which connects every single CTG device for ante-partum and intrapartum recordings and ensures that the antepartum CTGs provide the same standard of DR-CTG analysis regardless of their location.
His role is to ensure data integrity, tidiness and clarity. He links the clinical data to the CTG data and oversees the large Oxford archive. He is the ‘Go-To’ person for tables, analyses or audits of what is happening at the DR-CTG frontline.
Pawel Szafranski
Pawel joined the DR-CTG team in 2008 as a data programmer. He trained with Mary Moulden who wrote the first system more than 30 years ago. He was first responsible for managing the data collection but later took over Mary’s role for analysis and developing the programme itself. He modernised the code from its original obsolete programming language. His recent innovations are important to keep DR-CTG fit for modern practice, while he continues to maintain and develop the basic code. He has visited China twice to meet the medical IT team in the Shenzhen Hospital where DR-CTG is shortly to be installed and tested with a Mandarin front face.