Amanda Beech (President)

Amanda Beech is an Obstetric Medicine Physician and Endocrinologist at the Royal Hospital for Women and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, and holds a conjoint associate lecturer position at the University of New South Wales. She has a breadth of clinical experience in preconception counselling, managing medical disorders of pregnancy including pre-eclampsia, gestational and pre-existing diabetes, thyroid disease and hyperemesis, as well as a focus on women’s health across all ages, particularly reproductive endocrinology, menopause and osteoporosis.

Amanda has been actively involved in ISOM since 2019, after being elected to the Council representing SOMANZ and is involved with education and future ISOM international meetings. Amanda has a passion for medical education, which has seen her invited to speak at a number of SOMANZ conferences, RANZCOG Diplomates evenings, and registrar training days and she has developed the Obstetric Emergency Simulation Centre at the Royal Hospital for Women.

She has a particular interest in long term cardiovascular outcomes following pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes, and is currently a site investigator in the BP2 randomised controlled trial looking at postpartum lifestyle intervention to reduce the long term incidence of hypertension following hypertensive pregnancies.

Paul Gibson (Secretary, NASOM Rep)

Dr. Gibson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Calgary.

He obtained his medical degree and Internal Medicine residency at the University of Manitoba, followed by Fellowship training in Obstetric & Consultative Medicine at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Dr. Gibson founded the Obstetric Internal Medicine program in Calgary in 2001, and he provides inpatient and outpatient consultation for medically-complicated pregnancies in Calgary as well as an ongoing general internal medicine inpatient practice at Foothills Hospital. He is currently the Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Calgary.

His research interests focus on medically complicated pregnancies with an emphasis on cardiac disease, thrombosis, hypertension and medical education.

Briony Cutts (President, SOMANZ)

Charlotte Frise (MOMS Rep)

Dr Frise undertook her pre-clinical training at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and then moved to the University of Oxford for her clinical training. Whilst training in General (Internal) Medicine. She developed a specialist interest in Obstetric Medicine, completing additional training at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital. She worked as a consultant in General Medicine and Obstetric Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for 7 years before starting her current post.

Dr Frise has published numerous book chapters and articles.  She has also authored a series of electronic learning modules for Medical Problems in Pregnancy, and has written the popular textbook Obstetric Medicine (in the Oxford Specialist Handbooks of Obstetrics and Gynaecology series), published by Oxford University Press in July 2020. In January 2023, ‘Oxford Case Histories in Obstetric Medicine’ was published by Oxford University Press.

In 2018 she was appointed as co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Obstetric Medicine: the Medicine of Pregnancy.

Dr Frise is a Senior College Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at Keble College, University of Oxford and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College, London.

Jarrod Zamparini (SOOMSA President)

Jarrod Zamparini is a Specialist Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) and Netcare Park Lane Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa as well as a Lecturer in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). He completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Pretoria and specialised in Internal Medicine on the Wits training circuit, rotating across its three major teaching hospitals in Johannesburg. He holds a Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine from Wits and a Diploma in HIV Management from the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. Jarrod is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of South Africa and the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Jarrod is the founder and Physician-Lead of the Obstetric Internal Medicine Unit at CMJAH – the first of its kind in Africa. In this role, he oversees the multidisciplinary care of pregnant women with complex medical conditions, both in outpatient and inpatient settings. He is a founding member and current Chair of the Society of Obstetric Medicine of South Africa (SOOMSA) and an active member of the International Society of Obstetric Medicine (ISOM).

His research focuses on infectious diseases in pregnancy, particularly HIV, and thromboembolism in pregnancy. His current focus is the establishment of Obstetric Medicine as a recognised subspecialty in South Africa.

Serena Gundy (NASOM Rep)

Serena Gundy is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada where she is the Academic and Clinical Director of the Obstetric Medicine Program. Serena is an Obstetric Internist by background who completed her fellowship in Obstetric Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada and Auckland City Hospital, Auckland New Zealand.
Serena completed additional postgraduate training in quality improvement where her recent focus has been on high-risk care transition points, and strengthening communication between hospital and community care providers after pregnancies complicated by hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Her research interests are in quality improvement, the development of postpartum mood disorders after preeclampsia, and cardiometabolic outcomes after HDP. She has been on the executive of NASOM for the past three years and is the incoming secretary treasurer in 2025.

Hironobu Hyodo (JSOM Rep)

Dr. Hyodo