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Ms. Elaine Sheehan

Clinical Doctorate Research Fellow
National Institute of Health Research
The United Kingdom


A qualified midwife with 14 years of clinical experience, specializing in maternal medicine since 2016. After rotating through antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and community midwifery, she established the antenatal hypertension clinic at St George’s University NHS Hospital and developed a 'Home Blood Pressure Monitoring' pathway using a smartphone app. Her MSc. dissertation on women's experiences using this app for pre-eclampsia detection was published in the British Journal of Midwifery. Currently, she serves as a Clinical Doctorate Research Fellow with the NIHR and a project midwife at Tommy’s National Centre for Maternity Improvement.