Dr Charlotte Frise

Dr Charlotte Frise is a consultant obstetric physician based at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London, and is lead consultant obstetric physician for the NW London Maternal Medicine Network.

Dr Frise undertook her pre-clinical training at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, where she achieved first class honours and then moved to the University of Oxford for her clinical training. She remained in Oxford as a junior doctor and completed her training in general (internal) medicine. She developed a specialist interest in obstetric medicine, completing additional training at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital. She worked as a consultant in general medicine and obstetric medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for seven years before starting her current post.

Dr Frise has published numerous book chapters and articles. She has also authored the popular textbook Obstetric Medicine (in the Oxford Specialist Handbooks of Obstetrics and Gynaecology series), published by Oxford University Press in July 2020. In January 2023, Oxford Case Histories in Obstetric Medicine was published by Oxford University Press.
In 2018 she was appointed as co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Obstetric Medicine: the Medicine of Pregnancy. Dr Frise is also a senior college lecturer in clinical medicine at Keble College, University of Oxford and honorary senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College London.

Dr Frise's other roles include:

• secretary, Macdonald Obstetric Medicine Society
• chair, national group of Maternal Medicine Network Leads
• case assessor and chapter writer for MBRRACE-UK
• external subject matter advisor for MNSI
• obstetric physician representative on the UKOSS steering committee
• PACES examiner for the Royal College of Physicians
• obstetric physician representative on the UK Malaria Expert Advisory Group (UKMEAG) committee
• obstetric physician lead for care of women in the UK who have had a uterus transplant
• member of the advisory panel for the Advisory Board on Cancer, Infertility and Pregnancy

Lau K, Yu C, Frise C. Subacute small bowel obstruction in a twin pregnancy: a diagnostic and management challenge. J Surg Case Rep 2026 DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjag281

Lapinsky S, Frise C. Our Peer-review problem. Obstetric Medicine 2026. DOI 10.1177/1753495X261446731

Frise C, Mahmood H, Dhanjal MK, Reynolds DJM. Immediate vs. modified-release nifedipine in pregnancy: Incorrect nomenclature is risking drug errors. Obstetric Medicine 2026 DOI 10.1177/1753495X261416018

Murrell K, Jones BAS, Jones BP, L’Heveder A, Frise C, Quiroga I, Smith JR, Campbell JP. Anaesthetic management of the first caesarean birth following uterus transplantation in the United Kingdom. Anaesthetic Reports 2026. DOI: 10.1002/anr3.70042

Ong A, Christou E, Kiire CA, Primrose N, Tucker W, Frise C, De Silva S. Management of uveitic and chorioretinal conditions in pregnancy. Eye (November 2025). DOI:10.1038/s41433-025-04058-9

Rachael James, Roshni Patel, Cathy Nelson-Piercy, Allison Felker, Bernard Clarke, Charlotte Frise, Vinnie Sodhi, Anna Herrey, Lynne Campbell, Louise Clarke, Camella Main, Kailash Bhatia and Marian Knight on behalf of the MBRRACE-UK cardiac chapter writing group. Lessons on cardiovascular care. In: Felker A, Patel R, Kotnis R, Kenyon S, Knight M (Eds.) on behalf of MBRRACE-UK. Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care Compiled Report - Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2021-23. Oxford: National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford 2025.

Christou E, Ong AY, Kiire C, Primrose N, Tucker WR, Frise C, De Silva S. Ophthalmic conditions affecting the choroid and retina in pregnancy: An overview of key pathologies. Obstetric Medicine 2025. DOI: 10.1177/1753495X251367092

Park E, Munro K, Wickremasinghe M, Frise C. A case of antisynthetase syndrome with interstitial lung disease in pregnancy. Obstetric Medicine 2025. DOI: 10.1177/1753495X251380063

Narula K, Singh Curry V, Munro K, Dhanjal MK, Frise C. Stiff person syndrome and type 1 diabetes in pregnancy. Obstetric Medicine 2025, DOI: 10.1177/1753495X251378590

Soriano, V. X., Geddes-Barton, D. M., Goldacre, R., Knight, M., Henderson, I., Frise, C., Mackillop, L., Kenyon, S., Siassakos, D., Sanders, J. and Carson, C. (2025) “Maternal medicine network service provision from NHS England: development of an outcome indicator”, International Journal of Population Data Science, 10(4). doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v10i3.3053.

Shah H, Phillips J, Dhanjal MK, Dassan P, Seckl M, Frise C. Radiation-induced brain necrosis during pregnancy: a delayed complication of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia. Obstetric Medicine 2025, online first. DOI 10.1177/1752495X251354997

Park E, Dhanjal MK, Gupta S, Millar C, Primrose N, Sodhi V, Frise C. Intrapartum management of anticoagulation in a pregnant woman with acute cerebral venous sinus thrombosis undergoing vaginal delivery. Obstetric Medicine, 2025. Online first. DOI: 10.1177/1753495X251361665

Christou E, Ong A, Frise C, Jalil A, Ivanova T, Georgalas I, De Silva S. Evaluating the chorioretinal microcirculation in preeclampsia with OCT-Angiography: a narrative literature review. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2025. DOI: 10.3390/jcm14113913

Uppal P, Coats E, Frise C. Fertility Treatments in Patients with Medical Conditions. Clin Med 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinme.2025.100333

Ong A, Kiire C, de Silva S, Frise C. Collaborative care for pregnant women with eye conditions. Clin Med 2025; online 5.4.25 DOI 10.1016/j.clinme.2025.100314

Lapinsky SE, Chen KK, Frise CJ. Obstetric medicine national organisations. Obstet Med 2023; 16(3): 141. DOI 10.1177/1753495X231195702

Sullivan J, Mahmood H, Frise CJ. Pregnancy in a woman with extreme short stature and low body weight secondary to a collagen VI-related muscular dystrophy. Obstetric Medicine; 2023 DOI 10.1177/1753495X231219298