Mar Gil

Dr María del Mar Gil qualified in Medicine and specialized in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Madrid, Spain. From 2012 to 2015 she was a Research Fellow at Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London. She got her PhD in Medicine in Madrid, with her work “Clinical Implementation of maternal blood cell-free DNA testing in first-trimester screening for aneuploidies”. Currently, she is a Professor in Maternal-Fetal-Medicine at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, in Madrid (Spain), transitioning to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas (USA). She is active in clinical research in the field of Feto-Maternal Medicine and has a large number of publications in the prediction and prevention of pregnancy complications, with a special focus in interest in first-trimester assessment, genetics, preeclampsia and labor ultrasound.