Health Professional Advisory Panel
Our Health Professional Advisory Panel brings together a diverse group of experts with a wide range of clinical and professional insights. With a shared commitment to improving care, understanding and support around pregnancy loss, they help guide and inform the Miscarriage Association’s work, helping ensure the voices and needs of those affected by pregnancy loss remain at the heart of everything we do.
Meet our advisors
Alison Hylton-Potts | Panel Chair
Alison Hylton-Potts is a registered midwife at a South London NHS Trust, working in community antenatal and postnatal care, as well as supporting research delivery of clinical research trials. She began her midwifery career in 2018 after transitioning from a 15-year career as a Chartered Accountant, where she held leadership roles in finance, audit, and commercial planning.
As a midwife, Alison regularly interacts with women affected by miscarriage, and is passionate about providing high-quality, compassionate care to all. Inspired by the emotional impact of pregnancy loss, she joined the Miscarriage Association’s Trustee Board in 2024 and is now a member of our Health Professionals Advisory Panel.
Dr Jessica Farren
Dr Jessica Farren FRCOG PhD is a Consultant Gynaecologist at University College London Hospital, with a specialist focus in early pregnancy care. She serves on the executive committee of the Association of Early Pregnancy Units and lectures in workplaces through ‘This Is Womanhood’, advocating for a proactive approach to women’s health.
Her PhD research, focusing on the psychological impact of miscarriage, has been widely published and helped shape miscarriage care policy in the UK and beyond. A long-time advocate of the Miscarriage Association, Jessica co-facilitated a support group for two years and joined the Board of Trustees in 2025. Her personal and professional experiences inform her commitment to ensuring compassionate, evidence-based support for those affected by pregnancy loss.
Julia Bueno
Julia Bueno UKCP reg is a psychotherapist with an expertise in pregnancy loss and infertility, working with individuals, couples and small groups. A former Trustee of the Miscarriage Association and support volunteer, Julia has run support groups for infertility and pregnancy loss.
Her first book, ‘The Brink of Being: Talking about miscarriage’, won the British Medical Association Popular Medicine Award in 2021. Julia also supervises therapists, sits on the Adjudication Panel of the UKCP’s complaint and conduct process, and examines communication skills of doctors for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She previously worked in law and holds degrees from Oxford, King’s College London, and Middlesex University.
Dr Niki Davies
Dr Niki Davies is a GP based in North West London with a special interest in women’s health. Following her own experience of late miscarriage in 2007, Niki served on the Miscarriage Association’s Board of Trustees for several years. She also sat on the NICE Guidance Development Group for the Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage guideline, which was initially published in 2012 and has since been updated.
Niki continues to support the Miscarriage Association’s work and brings both personal and professional insights to her role. Both her lived experience and medical knowledge has been especially valuable in helping the charity ensure the voices of those affected are represented in healthcare conversations.
Professor Susie Kilshaw
Professor Susie Kilshaw is a professor in Medical Anthropology within the Department of Anthropology, University College London. Her research focuses on fertility, reproduction, and pregnancy loss, with studies in the UK and Qatar.
Susie has published books and articles on miscarriage, gender, and reproductive risk, including Pregnancy and Miscarriage in Qatar and the co-edited volume Navigating Miscarriage. She has also received prestigious funding awards from the ESRC, AHRC, the Qatar Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust.
Susie’s current research focuses on women’s experience of miscarriage in England, specifically on the remains and residues of pregnancy ends, and has influenced changes to NHS practices and national guidance on pregnancy remains disposal.
Dr Sarah Bailey
Dr Sarah Bailey PhD has extensive clinical experience as a nurse, midwife and health visitor. In her current role as a consultant nurse, she coordinates care for those experiencing recurrent miscarriage. Sarah is also a health researcher, investigating the development of supportive paradigms of care for those who have experienced recurrent miscarriage and focused on improving their psychological well-being during the challenging early stages of a new pregnancy.
Sarah is a former trustee of the Miscarriage Association, and is proud to continue her involvement and support as a member of our Health Professionals Advisory Panel.
Lisa Starrs
Lisa Starrs is passionate about early pregnancy care, with over 36 years of experience in gynaecological nursing and midwifery. She founded and continues to lead the Pregnancy Support Centre at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; the first nurse-led early pregnancy unit in Scotland.
Additionally, Lisa has worked in research and audit related to early pregnancy care. This has ranged from nurse led projects, to Clinical Research Nurse Coordination and she has also participated in the setup of multi centre national trials. She currently chairs the Scottish Early Pregnancy Network and sits on the executive committee of the Association of Early Pregnancy Units (AEPU).
Jackie Ross, BSc, MBBS, FRCOG
Jackie Ross is the Clinical Lead for the Early Pregnancy and Gynaecology Assessment Unit at King’s College Hospital. She is also Chair of the Association of Early Pregnancy Units and a course organiser for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) advanced skills training in Early Pregnancy and Acute Gynaecology, and South London RCOG ultrasound training co-ordinator for Gynaecology.
After training for three years as a junior doctor, Jackie spent two years in research at King’s College Hospital, specialising in early pregnancy problems and gynaecological ultrasound. She completed her training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in hospitals throughout the south east of England and joined the Specialist Register as a Consultant in 2003.
Andrea Woolner, PhD, MBChB, BSc, PgCert, MRCOG, DFSRH
Andrea Woolner is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Aberdeen Centre for Women’s Health Research, University of Aberdeen. She is the Early pregnancy lead consultant for NHS Grampian including the recurrent miscarriage service. Andrea’s PhD explored the heritability of pregnancy loss. Her daily practice is focused on early pregnancy scanning, recurrent miscarriage management as well as general obstetrics where she has an interest in antenatal care following pregnancy loss and hyperemesis.
Her research is currently focused on ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage, and is involved in undergraduate medical education and postgraduate teaching in global health at the University of Aberdeen
Donna Morgan
Donna Morgan is the Clinical Bereavement Lead for Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board in Wales and a member of the miscarriage group for the new Welsh National Bereavement Care Pathway, currently in development. A specialist nurse, Donna is passionate about ensuring patients are at the heart of all she does and is continually focussed on improving the care received during and following miscarriage.
Donna is proud to be part of the Miscarriage Association’s Health Professionals Advisory Panel and looks forward to using her experience and enthusiasm to help influence change consistently across Wales and beyond.