May Ching Soh is a rheumatologist and obstetric physician at Counties Manukau’s Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. Recognising early in her career the importance of addressing pregnancy and reproductive health in those with rheumatic disease, she pursued a fellowship in 2010, then undertook her initial consultant roles Imperial College in London, and high-risk unit at The John Radcliffe in Oxford.
Alongside her clinical work, May completed a PhD focused on population registries, investigating the long-term cardiovascular outcomes of individuals whose pregnancies were complicated by placental insufficiency, and examining the overlap between these outcomes and autoimmune rheumatic diseases.
She now leads the Obstetric Medicine service serving the largest and most ethnically diverse maternity population in New Zealand. May remains committed to advancing care for pregnant people with rheumatic diseases through education, service development, and guideline authorship, most recently in the forthcoming APLAR guidelines on reproductive health.
