Dr (Prof) Leanne Bricker MBBCh FRCOG
Consultant in Fetal and Maternal Medicine
Chair of Fetal Medicine and Medical Imaging, Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
Dr Leanne Bricker undertook undergraduate training in South Africa and moved to the UK where she specialised in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and then subspecialised (fellowship) in Fetal and Maternal Medicine. For 10 years she was Co-Director of the Fetal Medicine Unit of Liverpool Women's Hospital, UK, the largest single site women's hospital in Britain. She served on the executive committee of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society from 2009-2014.
She moved to Abu Dhabi in February 2014 to become Chair of Fetal Medicine at Corniche Hospital. In 2018 she also took on the role of Chairing the Medical Imaging Department at Corniche Hospital. She has been actively involved in research and has published over 60 papers, abstracts and book chapters and books. She is a Cochrane review author for the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group. She is an expert in the management of multiple pregnancy having led the tertiary level multidisciplinary multiple pregnancy service in Liverpool; been involved in the development of the UK NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) guidelines and quality standards for the management of multiple pregnancy and the RCOG green top guidelines for the management of monochorionic twin pregnancy; and recently published textbook Management of Multiple Pregnancies: A Practical Guide (Cambridge University Press).
Dr Bricker leads the foremost fetal medicine service providing a wide range of fetal therapy in the UAE and has introduced advanced fetal therapeutic techniques at Corniche Hospital including fetal blood transfusions, fetoscopic laser treatment for the rare complication twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, fetal shunts and FETO (fetal tracheal balloons). Dr Bricker is Chair of the OBGYN Service Line and Network at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company.
