Dr R B Beattie FRCOG.
He is an accredited subspecialist Consultant in Fetal Medicine based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
He was responsible for setting up the Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit at the University Hospital of Wales. He holds the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists / Royal College of Radiologists Joint Diploma in Advanced Obstetric Ultrasound and is accredited by the RCOG as being Subspecialty Trained in Fetal Medicine. He has been performing obstetric ultrasound scans for over 18 years and is a Director of the BUMPS, now MUMS, UK Network. www.bumps-uk.net
RESEARCH: Doppler ultrasound in normal and high risk pregnancy. Stem Cell Research
Dr Delyth Rich FRCOG
She is a Consultant in Maternal and Fetal Medicine based at the Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny.
She holds the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists / Royal College of Radiologists Joint Diploma in Advanced Obstetric Ultrasound. She has been performing obstetric ultrasound scans for over 9 years and is a Director of the BUMPS UK Network. www.bumps-uk.net. She is the Labour Ward Lead and Obstetric Lead for Clinical Risk in Nevill Hall Hospital. She also serves on the Welsh Specialty Training Committee and is responsible for training junior doctors in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
RESEARCH: Neurobehavioural studies in depression.
Dr Tony Griffiths MRCOG DFFP Dip MedEd FHEA
He is a Consultant Gynaecologist with a special interest in infertility based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff
He graduated from Cardiff in 1996 with several honours and awards. He is a consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the University Hospital of Wales teaching hospital with specialist interests in minimal access surgery, endometriosis and intertility. He provides care for women with endometriosis as part of multidisciplinary tertiary referral centre for endometriosis for all of Wales. His gynaecological practice is also focused upon providing assisted conception treatments and minimal access surgical treatments for infertility in IVF Wales.
He has had extensive training and experience in minimal access surgery for endometriosis in Cardiff, Surrey University and also internationally in Atlanta USA. He holds the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists certificate in minimal access surgery and assisted conception. He has also completed minimal access surgery training to master's level. He teaches advanced minimal access surgery through the Welsh Institute of Minimal Access Surgery, Royal College courses and internationally through the University of Athens.
He is known for having a very down to earth approach and believe communication and accessibility are vital to deliver first rate healthcare. He believes in providing an individualised, evidence based patient centred service.
Dr Kiron Bhal MRCOG
He is a Consultant Urogynaecologist based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff
He was appointed as Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in Cardiff in 2003. He developed an interest in the management of female urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse and spent his sabbatical in 2006 with Professor Linda Cardozo at King’s College Hospital London pursuing his interest in urogynaecology.
Since 2003, he developed the Urogynaecology service within the Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust. This was through the provision of Urodynamics services (including video & ambulatory urodynamics) and the setting up of a Multidisciplinary Continence/Urogynaecology Clinic. A full range of conservative, medical, conventional and novel surgical treatment options are offered. More recently, the Obstetric Perineal Trauma clinic has been incorporated as part of the Urogynaecology service. Mr. Bhal has continued with his passion for research and evidence based medicine and has presented work at numerous meetings both nationally and internationally.
Dr Claire Lipetz MRCOG
Dr Lipetz is a consultant in sexual and reproductive health with particular responsibility for forensic gynaecology. She has a wide range of experience in medical gynaecology. Her clinical work covers complex contraception, vasectomy, genitourinary medicine and psychosexual medicine. Her NHS practice is based at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.
Recent work has been on health economics of long acting methods of contraception (LARCs). Current work on forensic gynaecology and risk taking behaviour.
Dr Ken Lim MD MRCOG
He is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gyanecologist based in the Cardiff Vale NHS Trust and is a Subspecialist in Gynae Oncology
Hi subspeciality interest is in gynaecological cancer surgery, which was developed through his research interest in the immunological reaction to cervical precancerous and cancerous changes in the body, at the University Hospital of Wales. His obstetrics and gynaecology training has taken him around the hospitals of South East Wales, and his subspecialist training in gynaecological cancers was based at the Welsh Regional Centre for Gynaecological Oncology in Cardiff. He has an an interest in minimal access surgery and has developed the first pelvic mass clinic in Wales to accelerate the management process of these patients. He is currently the clinical audit lead for the department and he also regularly teaches on postgraduate courses around South Wales.
MEMEBRSHIP OF PROFESIONAL BODIES: British Society of Colposcopy & Cystoscopy, British Gynaecology Cancer Society, European Society of Gynaecological Oncology
Viv Mumby BA(Hons) Dip Couns Dip Supervision Cert Ed. Cert Mediation Studies
Viv is a counsellor, trainer and supervisor of other counsellors. She has worked as a counsellor for 17 years in a variety of settings and agencies.
She works in an integrative way, which means she combines elements from different therapeutic approaches to provide the most effective help for each client. Her core approach is collaborative, warm, empathic and respectful. She has also had extensive training in family therapy.
Viv’s special areas of interest include working with behaviour change (substance misuse/smoking and other problematic behaviours), loss, bereavement, depression, stress and anxiety.
She currently works in a local authority counselling service and in a private capacity for a number of organisations.
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:. BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) and she subscribes to their ethical guidelines.
