Dr Ciantar’s main areas of interest are obstetrics, obstetric haematology, diabetes in pregnancy and medical education. He runs a weekly multi-disciplinary obstetric haematology clinic in which pregnant patients with thrombotic and haemostatic disorders are reviewed. He also runs a monthly obstetric haemoglobinopathy clinic for patients with sickle cell disease, thalassaemia, red cell membrane disorders and immune thrombocytopenia.
He is also involved in the care of pregnant women with gestational diabetes, type 1 and type 2 diabetes. He is one of the fetal monitoring leads in the maternity department and undertakes regular multidisciplinary teaching in this area.
Dr Ciantar is actively involved in medical education. He is the deputy director of medical education (undergraduate) at LTHT and is also the training programme director for education in obstetrics and gynaecology for Yorkshire & Humber. In 2014 the University of Leeds awarded him a Clinical Teaching Excellence Award and in 2019 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award by the same university.
Dr Ciantar is involved in on-going research, audit and quality improvement in obstetric haematology, fetal monitoring and diabetes in pregnancy. He has presented his work both nationally and internationally and is the author of several articles in these fields.
He is also involved in the examination’s committees of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists and is the Maternal Medicine representative on the committee of the British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society.