Fatima Crispi

Fàtima Crispi is physician in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at BCNatal (Hospitals Clínic and Sant Joan de Déu), associate Professor at the University of Barcelona, and member of the Board of Trustees at ISUOG. She has become a recognised clinical expert in fetal cardiac imaging and physiology and established a unique clinic on fetal cardiac function incorporating new imaging tools for assessing the fetal heart, enabling follow-up of fetal growth restriction, congenital heart diseases, and other relevant complications. She leads a research line on Fetal Cardiac Programming that has produced >250 research papers (H-index 50) demonstrating the vital importance of the fetal heart in the adaptation to placental disease, preeclampsia, assisted reproductive technologies and other prenatal conditions. Her work has also led the evidence on the long-term consequences of fetal growth restriction on cardiovascular health.