
Professor Phil Steer
Emeritus Professor, Imperial College London, UK
Speaker's biography
Professor Steer is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Professor Emeritus at Imperial College London, based at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He was President of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine from 1996 to 1999 and President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2008 to 2009. He was Editor-in-Chief of BJOG (an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology) from 2005-2012, and is currently editor emeritus. He is an editor of ‘High Risk Pregnancy – Management Options’, with the fifth edition published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press, who also in 2016 published the second edition of ‘Heart Disease in Pregnancy’ that he edits with Prof Michael Gatzoulis. He is an honorary fellow of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist of South Africa and an honorary member of the American Gynecological & Obstetrical Society for whom he gave the Joseph Price oration in Chicago in 2017.