Rate My Professor Christoph Lees

Professor Christoph Lees is Professor of Obstetrics in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction within the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. He holds the position of Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Head of Fetal Medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where he leads the Centre for Fetal Care at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital. Qualifying from Guy’s Hospital, London in 1990 with MB BS, BSc, MD, and MRCOG qualifications, he obtained subspecialty accreditation in fetal-maternal medicine under Professor Kypros Nicolaides at the Harris Birthright Centre for Fetal Medicine, King’s College Hospital. He served as research fellow and lecturer under Professor Stuart Campbell at King’s College and St George’s Hospitals, established the fetal medicine unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge in 2001, and assumed the role of Head of Fetal Medicine at Queen Charlotte’s in 2013. In 2010, he was appointed Visiting Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium.

His research focuses on fetal assessment, particularly using Doppler ultrasound, fetal growth restriction, management of severe early-onset pre-eclampsia, scanning in labour, and non-invasive fetal surgery. As chief investigator of the TRUFFLE Study and co-founder of the International Working Group of Maternal Haemodynamics, he has advanced clinical practices in these areas. He has secured significant funding, including a £2.2 million Medical Research Council grant in 2017 for first-in-human studies of high-intensity focused ultrasound and over £2.4 million for research into stillbirth prevention related to fetal growth issues. Professor Lees has authored key textbooks such as Placental-Fetal Growth Restriction (2018) and Maternal Hemodynamics, and contributed to Dewhurst’s Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. With over 12,000 citations across hundreds of publications, his work influences international guidelines on fetal growth management. He serves on the board of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology since 2015, chairs its Doppler and vascular imaging group, and is a member of its Safety Committee.