Director of the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research
Professor of Gynaecology
Professor Arri Coomarasamy is the Director of Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research, with specialist teams in Birmingham, Coventry and London, putting patient priorities at the heart of efforts to tackle the widespread and devastating condition of early pregnancy loss.
Arri is one of our Birmingham Heroes - challenging the misconceptions of miscarriage and finding answers at a time when nothing makes sense.
Academic staff
Deputy Director of the Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research
Associate Professor of Maternal Health Clinical Trials
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research
Adam's primary research focus is clinical trials in early pregnancy care, with a particular focus on miscarriage, infertility and global women’s health.
Clinical Lead for the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research in Birmingham
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research
Clinical Lecturer
Dr Rima Dhillon-Smith is a clinical lecturer based at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital. She combines her academic work with clinical duties as a registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Rima’s main research interests lie in reproductive endocrinology, subfertility, paediatric gynaecology and early pregnancy. She is the clinical lead of the Birmingham Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage team.
Sub-Specialist Trainee in Reproductive Medicine, Honorary Academic Clinical Lecturer
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research
Justin is a senior registrar at the Birmingham Women's Hospital. He is one of the senior doctors working at the Tommy's Recurrent Miscarriage clinic. Justin has research and clinical interests in both miscarriage and infertility treatments such as IVF and pregnancy implantation.
Clinical staff
Oonagh Pickering
Lead Research Nurse for the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research
Oonagh leads the nursing team at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital. As well as providing clinical care to patients through the recurrent miscarriage service, Oonagh also leads the recruitment and follow-up of participants in our portfolio of studies.
Administrative staff
Dr Leah Fitzsimmons
Centre Manager for the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research
Research Programmes and Infrastructure
Graduate researchers
Dr Yealin Chung BSc MBBS MRCOG
PhD student
Yealin is a specialist trainee in Obstetrics & Gynaecology with research interest in reproductive medicine and early pregnancy. She is currently undertaking a PhD focusing on optimisation of the luteal phase to improve reproductive outcomes in women with history of infertility, subfertility and/or recurrent miscarriage.
Helen Williams
PhD student
My role as a part-time doctoral student within Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research enables me to explore and shine a light on male experiences of miscarriages and miscarriage care. Despite the prevalence of early pregnancy loss, the psychosocial effects are often unrecognised and unsupported. In the absence of any biomedical sequelae among men such marginalisation may be intensified. Men living through multiple miscarriages may also find any grief or anxiety intensified by loss of hope for future parenthood, but robust qualitative studies of these experiences are limited. We aim to rectify the deficiency.
Emily Fox
PhD student
Emily is a speciality trainee in obstetrics and gynaecology, working within the Tommy’s Recurrent Miscarriage team at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital. She is currently undertaking a PhD to investigate the role of Vitamin B3 in reproduction and pregnancy loss.
Dr Rosinder Kaur MBChB MRCOG
PhD student
Rosie is a specialist trainee in Obstetrics & Gynaecology with a research interest in early pregnancy. She is currently undertaking a PhD focusing on evidence based improvements to miscarriage care.
Dr Ishita Mishra MBBS MS MRCOG
PhD student
Ishita is a specialist trainee in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with special interest in reproductive medicine, recurrent miscarriage and ultrasound scan. She is currently undertaking a PhD focusing on adenomyosis and its association with pregnancy loss. She works as a clinical fellow in the recurrent miscarriage clinic at Birmingham Women's Hospital and in an assisted conception unit, CARE Fertility, Birmingham.