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Mr Raffaele Napolitano

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Location:

  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing
  • University College Hospital

GMC/GDC number:

7055370

Professional background

Raf Napolitano was appointed as a consultant in obstetrics and fetal medicine in 2017. He is the lead clinician for the ultrasound screening unit and one of the developer of the training programme in obstetric ultrasound and fetal medicine.

He provides a range of diagnostic and therapeutic services on the Fetal Medicine Unit and the Preterm Birth Clinic along with looking after women in labour. Raf obtained his certificate of completion of training in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Naples, Federico II, Italy, during which he conducted a fellowship in fetal medicine at St George’s Hospital, London.

Following this, he worked as a post doctoral clinical research fellow at the University of Oxford and undertook the subspecialty training in maternal and fetal medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

He was awarded the subspecialty accreditation by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2016 when he then jointed the team of consultants at UCLH. In 2017 he was awarded a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Naples, Federico II, producing a thesis on the development and growth of fetal brain structures using ultrasound as part of the INTERGROWTH-21ST Project.

In 2018 he started a "Late fetal growth restriction clinic" at UCLH every Monday, where all women with babies having growth problems or at risk of compromise are referred.

Specialties

Research interests

  • Screening and management of early and late fetal growth restriction
  • Fetal growth charts development
  • Neurosonography
  • Quality control in ultrasound.

Publications

1: Napolitano R, Molloholli M, Donadono V, Ohuma EO, Wanyonyi SZ, Kemp B, Yaqub
MK, Ash S, Barros FC, Carvalho M, Jaffer YA, Noble JA, Oberto M, Purwar M, Pang
R, Cheikh Ismail L, Lambert A, Gravett MG, Salomon LJ, Bhutta ZA, Kennedy SH,
Villar J, Papageorghiou AT; International Fetal and Newborn Growth Consortium
for the 21st Century (INTERGROWTH-21st). International standards for fetal brain
structures based on serial ultrasound measurements from Fetal Growth
Longitudinal Study of INTERGROWTH-21st Project. Ultrasound Obstet
Gynecol. 2020 Sep;56(3):359-370.

2: Mylrea-Foley B, Bhide A, Mullins E, Thornton J, Marlow N, Stampalija T,
Napolitano R, Lees CC. Building consensus: thresholds for delivery in TRUFFLE-2
randomized intervention study. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2020
Aug;56(2):285-287.

3: Stampalija T, Thornton J, Marlow N, Napolitano R, Bhide A, Pickles T, Bilardo
CM, Gordijn SJ, Gyselaers W, Valensise H, Hecher K, Sande RK, Lindgren P,
Bergman E, Arabin B, Breeze AC, Wee L, Ganzevoort W, Richter J, Berger A,
Brodszki J, Derks J, Mecacci F, Maruotti GM, Myklestad K, Lobmaier SM, Prefumo
F, Klaritsch P, Calda P, Ebbing C, Frusca T, Raio L, Visser GHA, Krofta L, Cetin
I, Ferrazzi E, Cesari E, Wolf H, Lees CC; TRUFFLE-2 Group. Fetal cerebral
Doppler changes and outcome in late preterm fetal growth restriction:
prospective cohort study. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Aug;56(2):173-181.

4: Cavallaro A, Ash ST, Napolitano R, Wanyonyi S, Ohuma EO, Molloholli M, Sande
J, Sarris I, Ioannou C, Norris T, Donadono V, Carvalho M, Purwar M, Barros FC,
Jaffer YA, Bertino E, Pang R, Gravett MG, Salomon LJ, Noble JA, Altman DG,
Papageorghiou AT. Quality control of ultrasound for fetal biometry: results from
the INTERGROWTH-21st Project. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2018
Sep;52(3):332-339.

5: Salomon LJ, Alfirevic Z, Da Silva Costa F, Deter RL, Figueras F, Ghi T, Glanc
P, Khalil A, Lee W, Napolitano R, Papageorghiou A, Sotiriadis A, Stirnemann J,
Toi A, Yeo G. ISUOG Practice Guidelines: ultrasound assessment of fetal biometry
and growth. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Jun;53(6):715-723.

6: Molloholli M, Napolitano R, Ohuma EO, Ash S, Wanyonyi SZ, Cavallaro A,
Giudicepietro A, Barros F, Carvalho M, Norris S, Min AM, Zainab G, Papageorghiou
AT. Image-scoring system for umbilical and uterine artery pulsed-wave Doppler
ultrasound measurement. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Feb;53(2):251-255.

7: Yaqub M, Kelly B, Stobart H, Napolitano R, Noble JA, Papageorghiou AT.
Quality-improvement program for ultrasound-based fetal anatomy screening using
large-scale clinical audit. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Aug;54(2):239-245.

8: MONOMONO Working Group. Inpatient vs outpatient management and timing of
delivery of uncomplicated monochorionic monoamniotic twin pregnancy: the
MONOMONO study. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Feb;53(2):175-183.