Monika Szpotanska.

On a day-to-day basis, she serves as an Ordinary Officer at the Department of Pregnancy and Obstetric Pathology with Birth Tract at the University Centre for Women's and Newborn Health of the Warsaw Medical University at Pl. Starynkiewicza 1/3 in Warsaw. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Medical University of Warsaw.

Since the beginning of her career, she has taken a special interest in prenatal ultrasound diagnosis, which has become and remains her passion today. She holds certificates in prenatal diagnostics from the ultrasound section of the Polish Society of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (PTGiP) and the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF), which entitles her to perform extended diagnostic ultrasound in the first and second trimesters, together with assessment of the risk of pre-eclampsia or preterm labour associated with cervical insufficiency. She is a member of the PTGiP and International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISUOG), as well as a member of the "Club 35" of the PTGiP, a section for gynaecologists and obstetricians who can demonstrate significant scientific achievements obtained before the age of 35. In 2024, she obtained the title of specialist in perinatology.

She holds a specialist title in clinical genetics, which confirms the holistic provision of both pre-conceptual and already prenatal consultations, as well as further qualification for possible invasive procedures.

Professional experience and clinical work:

For many years she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pregnancy Pathology and Obstetrics at the University Centre for Women's and Newborn Health, Warsaw Medical University (UCZKiN-WUM), where she currently serves as the Head of the Department of Pregnancy Pathology, Obstetrics with Childbirth Tract. She has also worked at the Department of Pregnancy Pathology of the Independent Public Clinical Hospital named after Prof. W. Orlowski, Medical Centre for Postgraduate Education (CMKP). For several years, she cooperated with the Genetic Clinic at the Department of Medical Genetics of the Institute of Mother and Child (IMiD), where she provided, among other things, genetic consultations for prenatal and infertile couples. Her many years of clinical work in tertiary referral centres enabled her to develop her clinical and scientific expertise in the care and management of pregnancies in women at high risk of maternal-fetal complications.

The issue of pregnancy planning and reproductive health in women at high risk of pregnancy complications (women after organ transplantation) became the subject of her doctoral thesis, which was defended with distinction at the Warsaw Medical University, followed by a series of publications, constituting a scientific achievement, for which she was awarded the title of Doctor of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences by the Council of Scientific Disciplines of the Warsaw Medical University in 2019.

Interests:

In her free time she spends time with her family. She enjoys travelling, recreational sports and reading crime fiction.