Professor Nicholas Fisk

He is obstetrician, maternal-fetal medicine specialist, and academic. Fisk is known for inventing the natural caesarean operation, also referred to as the family centred caesarean section. He has pioneered advances in understanding fetoplacental disease and its treatment, including characterising early human fetal stem cell populations, documenting “fetal pain” and its blockade by opioid analgesia, and unravelling the vascular basis of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. In 2016 he was appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). Nicholas Fisk was educated at St Ignatius College Riverview, the University of Sydney (MBBS 1980), University College London (PhD 1992) and Imperial College London (MBA 2008). Fisk was Professor of Obstetrics & Fetal Medicine (1992-2007) at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and Imperial College London, where his laboratory and clinical research program achieved an international reputationin fetal diagnosis and treatment.