Dr Nicole Pilarski MBBS, MSc, MD

Academic Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Contact details

Email
n.pilarski@bham.ac.uk
Address
Research Fellows Office, 3rd Floor
Birmingham Women’s Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TG

Nicole is an academic clinical lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She works clinically as an O&G postgraduate doctor in training based at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Nicole's research interests include the prevention and management of preterm birth and research in acute obstetrics.  Nicole is the clinical research fellow for the C-STICH2 trial, an NIHR funded RCT and observational cohort study examining pregnancy loss in women with premature cervical dilatation and exposed unruptured membranes with or without emergency cervical cerclage.  

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Qualifications

  • MD University of Birmingham - 2025
  • MRCOG Part 1 - 2018
  • MBBS King’s College London School of Medicine 2015
  • MSc London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2013

Publications

Pilarski N, Bhogal G, Hamer J, Man R, Morris RK, Hodgetts-Morton V. Interventions for women with premature cervical dilatation and exposed fetal membranes to prevent pregnancy loss and preterm birth - A systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2024. Doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2024.07.022.

Nicole Pilarski, R. Katie Morris, Victoria Hodgetts-Morton, Does a stitch in time save lives? An update on the evidence for cervical cerclage in 2024, Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Reproductive Medicine, 2024. Doi:/10.1016/j.ogrm.2024.03.004.

Pilarski N, Hodgetts-Morton V, Morris RK. Is cerclage safe and effective in preventing preterm birth in women presenting early in pregnancy with cervical dilatation? BMJ. 2021. Doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067470. PMID: 34772657.

C-STICH2: emergency cervical cerclage to prevent miscarriage and preterm birth-study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Hodgetts-Morton V, Hewitt CA, Jones L, Leighton L, Pilarski N, Molloy E, Hinshaw K, Norman J, Waugh J, Stock S, Thornton J, Toozs-Hobson P, Johnston T, Coomarasamy A, Thangaratinam S, Mol B, Pajkrt E, Marlow N, Roberts T, Middleton L, Brocklehurst P, Morris K.  Trials. 2021. Doi: 10.1186/s13063-021-05464-6.