Dr Yves Ville | Source | Co-founder and OBGYN at Sonio AI

Yves Ville is a French obstetrician, specializing in fetal medicine and surgery. He is head of Department at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris, a professor at the University of Paris-Descartes, and a member of the French National Academy of Medicine. Before this, he practiced this specialty in London and is, with Michael R. Harrison and Kypros Nicolaides, one of the promoters of fetal medicine and surgery. He is a past president of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) and editor-in-chief of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology and the international editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Fetal surgery is a surgical overspecialization that concerns only very rare cases (about 350 procedures per year in France) where the treatment of fetal malformations cannot be performed after birth and must be performed in utero.