Abstract winners

RCOG World Congress is an opportunity for individuals across all career stages in O&G to share their latest research and ideas, supporting our mission to improve women’s healthcare globally. 

Celebrating success

The top 500 abstracts at #RCOG2023 were included in a special World Congress online supplement of BJOG.

To mark the end of our annual flagship event and celebrate their fantastic work, the top three abstract authors had the opportunity to present to their global peers.

Highest scoring abstracts overall, presented in a plenary session at Congress

Best overall oral presentation at Congress

• 1st prize - Thillagavathie Pillay - Place of preterm births at 27-31 weeks: mortality and morbidity outcomes from OPTIPREM
• 2nd prize - Natasha Hezelgrave - SuPPoRT: Stitch Progesterone or Pessary: a Randomised Trial
• 3rd prize - Susan Logan - Age of menopause, prevalence & correlates of menopausal symptoms in midlife Singaporean women

Best oral presentation by a trainee/student

• Natasha Hezelgrave - SuPPoRT: Stitch Progesterone or Pessary: a Randomised Trial

Best oral presentation in session

• Maddalena Ardissino - Maternal hemodynamic traits and adverse outcomes in pregnancy: a Mendelian randomization study
• James Morris - Fertility preservation outcomes are comparable in luteal and follicular oncology patients
• Susan Logan - Age of menopause, prevalence & correlates of menopausal symptoms in midlife Singaporean women
• Mary Garven - Ayrshire and Arran’s Team Approach to PRAMS (Pregnancy Anaemia Management Scotland)
• Sidrah Nausheen - Community-based initiative to address menstrual hygiene of adolescent girls & women in Pakistan
• Sofia Mastrodima-Polychroniou - Outcomes of fetal surgery for open spina bifida, under NHS commissioning
• Jocelynn Cook (joint winner) - Prenatal substance exposures and mental health trajectories
• Dyuti Coomar (joint winner) - Lifestyle interventions to prevent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM): individual participant data meta-analysis
• Katie Cornthwaite - Qualitative, simulation study of impacted fetal head (DiSIMpact): lessons for skills training
• Yvonne Neubauer - Experiences of early medical abortion clinicians adopting telemedicine during the Covid-19 pandemic
• Eleanor Jones - Multivariable diagnostic models to predict endometrial cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding
• Camilla Toscano-Underwood - Creation of a novel surgical training device for Caesarean Section
• Takehiro Hiraoka - A new mouse model of mechanically induced adenomyosis
• Natasha Hezelgrave - SuPPoRT: Stitch Progesterone or Pessary: a Randomised Trial
• Tegan Triggs - Classifying small for gestational age infants as “low risk”: a prediction model
• Thillagavathie Pillay - Place of preterm births at 27-31 weeks: mortality and morbidity outcomes from OPTIPREM

Best overall poster presentations at Congress 

• 1st prize - Amelia Fisher - Personalised Vulval Care Plans: Individualising the management of vulval skin conditions
• 2nd prize - Elinor Carlisle - Trainee Open Discussion Groups: Supporting Wellbeing in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Trainees
• 2nd prize - Emily Smitten - Why are patients with primary ovarian cancer not receiving standard treatment?
• 2nd prize - Nargis Mahmood - Risk Assessment by Stratification of Raised sFlt-1/PlGF Ratio in Suspected Pre-eclampsia
• 2nd prize - Henry Wasswa - One-stop facility model, localizing WHO Comprehensive Abortion Care Guidelines in Uganda
• 3rd prize - Michelle Cooper - Acceptability of a digital health intervention to inform women about postpartum contraception

Best poster presentation in session

• Santanu Acharya - Preventable Childbirth Mortality Reduction - Private/Public Partnership, Translational Training Model - CALMED,TENA
• Despoina Kitmiridou - Uterine artery Doppler indices and adverse perinatal outcomes: a prospective cohort study
• Yinka Fung - Does Virtual Reality Technology Reduce Pain and Anxiety During Outpatient Hysteroscopy?
• Shen Chuen Khaw - Reducing Surgical Site Infections in Caesarean Sections: An evidenced-based maternity care bundle
• Elinor Carlisle - Trainee Open Discussion Groups: Supporting Wellbeing in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Trainees
• Manjula Samyraju - Identifying Intrapartum Fetal Early Warning Signs (FEWS) and why we need it?
• Mairead Black - Core outcome set for studies of pregnant women with multimorbidity
• Umme Habiba – Immediate removal of urinary catheter; a step closer to enhanced recovery?
• Oladipupo Olalere - Development of an Evidence-Based Nipple Care Pathway for New Breastfeeding Mothers
• Amelia Fisher - Personalised Vulval Care Plans: Individualising the management of vulval skin conditions
• Charla Mae Co - Hyperemesis Gravidarum Resulting to Myocardial Infarction With Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries (MINOCA)
• Emily Smitten - Why are patients with primary ovarian cancer not receiving standard treatment?
• Nargis Mahmood - Risk Assessment by Stratification of Raised sFlt-1/PlGF Ratio in Suspected Pre-eclampsia
• Malaika Jindal - Safe and effective vagal-nerve-stimulation for new-onset refractory status-epilepticus (NORSE) in early pregnancy
• Jenna Frizelle (joint winner) - Carboprost: A safe second-line option in managing abortion and intrauterine fetal death?
• Sobia Hamid (joint winner) - Rare causes of secondary Post-Partum Hemorrhage (PPH)
• Amanda Moore - Improving experiences of gestational diabetes in pregnancy and reducing future diabetes risk.
• Michelle Cooper - Acceptability of a digital health intervention to inform women about postpartum contraception
• Tiffany Wong - Harnessing augmented reality technology for medical education –A virtual abdominal hysterectomy
• Jason Gardosi - Most fetal weight standards miss increased stillbirth risk in obese mothers’ pregnancies
• Mark Lui - Diagnostic value of early postnatal compared with standard oral glucose tolerance test
• Henry Wasswa - One-stop facility model, localizing WHO Comprehensive Abortion Care Guidelines in Uganda.
• Stamatina Iliodromiti - Does PCOS increase Cardiovascular morbidity/mortality? A cohort study from the UK-biobank