The Sands Perinatal Expert Panel (PEP) meets annually to review applications for funding and advise Sands on scientific matters.

Professor Gordon Smith (Chair), consultant obstetrician and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Cambridge University

Professor D Stephen Charnock-Jones, Professor of Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, The Rosie Hospital, Cambridge

Dr Alexander Heazell, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Clinical Director of the Tommy’s Stillbirth Research Centre, Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Alyson Hunter, Consultant Obstetrician, The Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital, Belfast [also a Sands Trustee]

Dr Tracey Mills, Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Manchester

Professor Jane Sandall, Professor of Social Science and Women’s Health, Division of Women’s Health, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London

Professor Neil Sebire, Professor of Developmental and Paediatric Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, London

Dr Dimitrios Siassakos, Consultant Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics Director of Research Academic Centre for Women's Health, University of Bristol & Southmead Hospital; Lead for Obstetric Education Reproductive Health and Care of Newborn, University of Bristol 

Professor Basky Thilaganathan, Professor in Fetal Medicine, St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Professor Jim Thornton, Consultant Obstetrician and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Nottingham