Eduard Gratacós is Director and Professor at BCNatal, a national and international referral center in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Hospital Clínic and Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, University of Barcelona. Previously, he was Head of the Fetal Medicine Units of the University Hospital in Leuven, Belgium (1999-2000) and the Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona (2001-2004). He has participated in the design of several of the fetal surgery techniques currently used, and in his over 16 years of experience, Prof.Gratacós and his team have performed over 1800 fetal surgeries. He has served as board member and scientific chair at several international societies in maternal-fetal medicine, and as reviewer/advisor to research institutions/systems and healthcare companies around the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, director of the Erasmus Mundus European Doctorate in Fetal Medicine (Barcelona, Leuven, Lund), and has directed over 30 funded national and international projects, 25 doctoral theses, published over 350 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and co-authored 4 patents.