Sophie Bertaud
Senior Clinical Research Fellow and DPhil Student
Sophie is a paediatrician and has recently completed her training as a Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Her DPhil will examine the ethical considerations in providing antenatal palliative care. Sophie is co-registered at the Ethox Centre in the Nuffield Department of Population Health and at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Her research is supervised by Professor Dominic Wilkinson, Professor Maureen Kelley and Dr Mehrunisha Suleman. She is supported by a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship for Health Professionals in Humanities and Social Science.
Sophie has a longstanding interest in medical ethics and completed her MA in Bioethics at New York University in 2012 with the support of a Fulbright scholarship. She held an Academic Clinical Fellowship at King’s College London during her paediatric training where she conducted qualitative research looking at parental decision-making following an antenatal diagnosis of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. She has also worked as a researcher at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, developing future work topics for the Council.
Recent publications
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Paediatric palliative care in the NICU: A new era of integration.
Journal article
Bertaud S. et al, (2023), Semin Fetal Neonatal Med
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End of life care in the setting of extreme prematurity – practical challenges and ethical controversies
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WILKINSON D. and Bertaud S., (2023), Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
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Use of home parenteral nutrition in severely neurologically impaired children
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Ribeiro-Mourão F. et al, (2022), Archives of Disease in Childhood, 107, 365 - 370
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Facilitators and barriers to the delivery of palliative care to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions: a qualitative study of the experiences and perceptions of healthcare professionals
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Mitchell S. et al, (2022), Archives of Disease in Childhood, 107, 59 - 64
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The impact of prenatal counselling on mothers of surviving children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: A qualitative interview study
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Bertaud S. et al, (2020), Health Expectations, 23, 1224 - 1230