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Director of the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research

Professor Arri CoomarasamyProfessor Arri Coomarasamy

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 

Dr Adam Devall

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.

Dr Adam Devall

Professor Ioannis Gallos

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research

Ioannis is a consultant for the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research based at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. He runs a weekly clinic alongside Professor Arri Coomarasamy and Dr Rima Dhillon-Smith for couples that have suffered recurrent miscarriages. 

Professor Ioannis Gallos

Dr Rima Dhillon-Smith

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.

Dr Rima Dhillon-Smith

Mr Lee Priest

Research Fellow for the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research, Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research

Lee's primary research focus is infertilty and miscarriage.

Lee Priest

Dr Jennifer Tamblyn

Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research
Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Dr Jennifer Tamblyn is Honorary Clinical Lecturer based at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital. She combines her academic work with clinical duties as a registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Jennifer's main research interests lie in reproductive immunology, disorders of implantation and early pregnancy. 

Dr Jennifer Tamblyn

Dr Justin Chu

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.

Dr Justin Chu

 

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.
Oonagh Pickering

Rachael Boothe

Research Assistant for the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research

Rachael Boothe

 

Administrative staff 

Rajinder Kaur

Centre Manager for the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research

Rajinder Kaur

Danai Bagkou Dimakou

Trial co-ordinator

Danai Bagkou Dimakou

Wendy Gibson

Clinical secretary for the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research

Chloe Trainor

PA to Professor Coomarasamy

Chloe Trainor

  

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.

Yealin Chung

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.

Helen Williams