Rate My Professor Lisa Story

Dr Lisa Story is a Reader in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine in the Department of Women and Children's Health at King's College London, part of the School of Life Course and Population Sciences within the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine. She is an NIHR Advanced Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Story qualified with BM BCh BA from the University of Oxford, earned her PhD at Imperial College London, and holds MRCOG membership. Her career includes prior roles as NIHR Clinical Lecturer and subspecialty trainee in Maternal and Fetal Medicine.

Story's research specializations centre on advanced MRI techniques to assess high-risk pregnancies, preterm birth prediction, and fetal development, including fetal lung maturation, placental function, cervical cerclage, and organ volumetry using low-field 0.55T MRI. She has produced over 180 publications, with notable contributions such as 'Cervical cerclage: an evolving evidence base' (BJOG, 2024), 'Low-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Late Gestation Cervix and Birth Outcome Correlation: A Prospective Cohort Study' (2025), 'ABOVE cerclage after caesarean: protocol for a randomised controlled trial' (BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2026), 'Brain volumetry in fetuses that deliver very preterm: An MRI study' (2021), and 'Pulmonary T2* quantification of fetuses with congenital diaphragmatic hernia' (2025). Her scholarship has amassed over 3,600 citations on Google Scholar. Story has secured grants from MRC, NIHR, Action Medical Research, and others for projects like the MIBIRTH study on late-gestation MRI for birth management, advanced MRI for antenatal lung development, and cerclage trials post-caesarean. She delivered the Blair Bell Memorial Lecture in 2024 and serves as Scientific Editor for the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Her work influences preterm birth prevention strategies and clinical imaging practices through innovative, non-invasive methods.