Invited Speakers

Dr Mackillop is a Consultant Obstetric Physician, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford; Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; President of the UK’s MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society and Chief Medical Officer – Data & Research at Optum UK.

Dr Mackillop trained in General, Renal and Obstetric Medicine in Oxford, London and Sydney before taking up her consultant post in 2008.

Dr Mackillop has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, national and international guidelines, book chapters and e-learning resources on a wide variety of medical conditions in pregnancy. She is Chair for the Joint Committee for Obstetric Medicine with The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and is a member of the medical specialities board and the programme board for the diploma in Obstetric Medicine, RCP.

Her research interests include the role of remote monitoring solutions in women with medical problems in pregnancy with a particular emphasis of the intersection between primary and secondary care.

She led the development and evaluation of a patient app-to-clinician digital system for the management of women with diabetes in pregnancy through to commercialisation and scale; now used in over half of maternity units in England.

She leads the Data and Research strategy for Optum UK, the largest provider of clinical systems in primary and community care in the UK.