Professor Lesley McCowan 
Professor Lesley McCowan is the Head of Department in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Auckland.   She is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and sub-specialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine specializing in the care of women with major health problems in pregnancy.
Lesley completed her training on obstetrics and gynaecology in New Zealand.  In 1985/6 she completed a fellowship on the role of Doppler ultrasound in complicated pregnancies at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.  On returning to New Zealand she continued her clinical research using Doppler ultrasound to investigate pregnancies with fetal growth restriction.
Lesley heads the clinical component of the Auckland SCOPE study, which aims to identify first time mothers who are at risk of developing preeclampsia, preterm birth or having a growth restricted baby.  Lesley is also a principle investigator in an Auckland-wide case control study that aims to identify the risk factors that lead to stillbirth in New Zealand. 
Lesley has supported NZAPEC since it was established.

Professor Robyn North
Robyn is  Professor in the Maternal and Fetal Research Unit at King's College in London, and over the past two decades has cared for high risk women with a wide spectrum of medical disorders.  These include hypertensive conditions, renal disease, cardiac disease, autoimmune conditions, thromboembolism and transplants, frequently with complex combinations of diseases.  She is president for the International Society for Obstetric Medicine.
Robyn's major research interest is prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes, especially preeclampsia.  She is interested in the origins of preeclampsia, in particular metabolic and inflammatory factors that predispose the mother to respond to placental factors released into maternal blood.   She leads a team of scientists performing proteomic and bioinformatic research to map patterns of proteins in maternal blood associated with the development of pregnancy complications. Robyn is the principal investigator of the international SCOPE study, which aims to develop novel multimarker tests to predict which pregnant women will later develop preeclampsia, fetal growth restriction or spontaneous preterm birth.

Robyn has also supported NZAPEC since it was established