Sandy Starr, deputy director of PET, went to Oxford to chair the concluding session of a conference entitled 'Ethical Questions of Pregnancy Management Following a Positive NIPT/PND Result'.
The conference was organised by a team including Ruth Horn (pictured above with Sandy), professor of medical ethics at the University of Oxford. It was held in St Luke's Chapel, a venue that originally served as the official church of the Radcliffe Infirmary hospital.
At the conference, speakers from various countries discussed issues surrounding pregnancy decisions following results from noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and from prenatal diagnosis (PND).
The session chaired by Sandy was entitled 'Women's Experiences after Positive NIPT Results', and featured presentations from Lidewij Henneman (professor of patient perspectives on genetic testing at Amsterdam UMC) and Jane Fisher (director of Antenatal Results and Choices, a charity with which PET has worked for many years).
Other speakers at the event included Professor Angus Clarke, who will be speaking at this year's PET Annual Conference – What Does Genomics Mean for Fertility Treatment? – at the session 'Polygenic Risk, Polygenic Scores, Polygenic Indices: What Are They? What Should Be Done With Them?'.