[0.46] Dr Pat and Brigid introduces Professor Joanne Said to the listeners.

[2.15] Professor Joanne explains what a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist (MFM) is.

[3.20] Brigid, Dr Pat and Professor Joanne talk about the training an MFM has to undertake to be qualified.

[5.22] Dr Pat and Professor Joanne talk about when a general Obstetrician would refer to a MFM.

[7.19] Dr Pat talks about the pathway of someone who has had something like CMV to seeing an MFM.

[8.35] Professor Joanne talks about how often an MFM would be at a birth.

[9.46] Professor Joanne talks about public and private MFMs.

[11.46] Professor Joanne talks about when an MFM might work with someone who is planning a pregnancy. Dr Pat and Professor Joanne talk about some of the pre-existing medical conditions people who see an MFM prior to having a pregnancy might have.

[14.20] Professor Joanne talks about the percentage of people who may need an MFM for their pregnancy.

[15.13] Professor Joanne talks about how MFMs go about delivering bad news to patients.

[16.22] Professor Joanne explains some of the joyful parts of an MFMs job.

[17.57] Professor Joanne talks about the work MFMs do with preterm births through the preterm birth clinic and the cervical surveillance clinic.

[19.36] Professor Joanne talks about what patients should expect when they go to see an MFM, she talks about the invasive testing MFMs might do and what patients should expect around that.

[21.57] Professor Joanne explains the PRECeDe trial and the C-steroid trial which she is leading. Professor Joanne talks about antenatal corticosteroids which is what both trials are exploring.

[25.00] Professor Joanne talks about the PRECeDe trial which is specific to antenatal corticosteroids and women with diabetes.

[27.48] Professor Joanne talks about where both trials are at in terms of the process.

[29.25] Professor Joanne talks about what listeners who want to be a part of the trials can do if they would like to sign up to them.

[30.38] Dr Pat and Professor Joanne talk about women’s willingness to be involved in clinical trials.

[32.12] Professor Joanne talks about placental abnormalities and umbilical cord abnormalities.

[33.38] Professor Joanne talks about VASA praevia.

[34.26] Professor Joanne explains the difference between an MFM and a Certificate of Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound (COGUS), and the differences between their roles.

[36.47] Professor Joanne talks about some research and trials that have come out that she found really fascinating.

[39.20] Professor Joanne talks about how long it takes for good research to come into common practice and some of the factors that effect this.

[41.11] Brigid, Dr Pat and Professor Joanne talk about Genetic Carrier Screening and the Medicare funding around it.