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Speakers
Prof
Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
President Royal College of Obstetricians and
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Dr. Mohammad El
Sheikh
Chairman UAE Representative Committee
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Dr.
M. Elsheikh was graduated from
University of Khartoum, postgraduate
trained in Birmingham and Leeds-Bradford Hospitals.
He
Joined Corniche Hospital as Consultant Obstetricians
in 1984 and participated with the pioneers to
establish the infrastructure for Maternity Services.
He
introduced many new and modern innovations that
brought the Maternity and Gynaecological services UAE
up to International Standards.
He
is the CHAIRMAN OF RCOG UAE Representative Committee
since 1999.
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Mr. Abdul Hameed Sultan
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Abdul
Sultan is a Consultant Obstetrician and
Gynaecologist with a special interest in
Urogynaecology at Mayday University Hospital,
Croydon and Reader at St George’s University of
London. His research involved studying the effects
of childbirth on the pelvic floor and anal
sphincters. This led to a landmark paper published
in the New England Journal of Medicine and to a
Doctorate. His pioneering work highlighted the
deficiencies in training of doctors and midwives in
detecting and repairing injuries to the perineum and
anal sphincter after childbirth.
He serves on the Executive Committee (Treasurer) of
the British Society of Urogynaecology, Scientific
Advisory Committee (RCOG) and Council of Royal
Society of Medicine (Treasurer - Obstetrics and
Gynaecology) and elected on the scientific committee
of the International Urogynecological Association.
He is the co-director with Ranee Thakar of a busy
tertiary referral urogynaecology Unit at Mayday
University Hospital that is recognised for
subspecialty training and has an active research
programme. He has over 100 publications and has
co-produced the first comprehensive textbook on
perineal and anal sphincter trauma.
The Croydon continence team was recently awarded the
“The UK Continence Team of the year (2005)”. In
addition, he was awarded the prestigious overall UK
Hospital Doctor of the Year award. Along with Ranee
Thakar he runs the popular perineal repair courses
at Mayday University Hospital. Further details are
available on the website: www.perineum.net.
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Professor Adam Henry Balen
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For many years
Adam Balen has had a particular interest in the
causes and management of polycystic ovary syndrome –
covering the full spectrum from the effects of the
syndrome during adolescence and adult life on the
menstrual cycle, fertility, body weight and cosmetic
aspects together with the fundamental effects that
PCOS may have on quality of life and long term
health. He has also developed a special interest in
disorders of sexual development and differentiation
and runs a supra-regional referral service.
Adam Balen is the
Person Responsible for the Leeds General
Infirmary Reproductive Medicine Unit which performs
approximately 1100 IVF cycles per year. He works as
an NHS full time clinician and was awarded a
personal (honorary) chair, University of Leeds,
2004.He is Chair of the ESHRE Special Interest Group
in Reproductive Endocrinology,
an editor of
British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology,
member of the Editorial Board of Human Fertility
and member National Committee and past
treasurer of the British Fertility Society. He is
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR),
Specialty Lead for West Yorkshire, Comprehensive
Local Research Network (CLRN) on the National
Reproductive Health & Childbirth Specialty Group.
Author of 10 books
over 110 peer-reviewed papers, 75 reviews, 149
chapters in books, and has delivered over 160
prestigious lectures worldwide. Books include:
Infertility in Practice (3rd edition
published in 2008), Reproductive Endocrinology
for the MRCOG and Beyond (2nd
edition 2007), The Multi-Disciplinary approach to
Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology (2004) and
The Practical Management of Polycystic Ovary
Syndrome (2005).
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Dr.
Ishag Adam Ahmed
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Dr.
Ishag Adam Ahmed Mohammad is currently an Associate
Professor in the Department of Obstetrics &
Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine at University of
Khartoum, Sudan. In 1991 received a MBBCH at, Arab
Medical University, Benghazi, Libya and Full
registration in Sudan Medical Council, 1993. He
went on to attain his Clinical MD in Obstetrics and
Gynecology at University of Khartoum, and later a
PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at University of
Maastricht in The Netherlands.
He was
previously Registrar at the Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine at University of
Khartoum, with rotation in different hospitals, and
also a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist at
New Halfa Hospital in the Sudan.
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Professor Allan
Templeton
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Allan Templeton was Regius Professor and Head of
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the
University of Aberdeen 1985 – 2006. He now holds a
Personal Chair in the Division of Applied Health
Sciences. He was President of the Royal College of
Obstetricians & Gynaecologists from 2004 – 2007, and
is now Honorary Director of the Office of Research
and Clinical Audit at the RCOG.
He has longstanding clinical and research interests
in human infertility, in vitro fertilisation,
and the prevention of pelvic infection and clinical
use of antiprogesterones. He has continuing
professional interests in clinical effectiveness,
service organisation and medical revalidation.
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Mr. Ali Abdulla Kubba
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AK has worked in the field of
Family Planning & Reproductive and sexual Health for
the past 25 years. His main interests are cervical
screening, colposcopy, contraceptive technology,
education, EBM and governance, STI management in the
community, menopause, PMS and medical gynaecology.
He has published around 200
research and review papers. He lectures widely in
the UK, Europe and world-wide. His output includes
6 books including 2 Reference Textbooks.
Ali Kubba is the chairman of the
UK Intercollegiate Iraq Liaison Group, member of the
International Execuitve Board of the RCOG and
Chairman of the International Working Group of the
Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.
Mr Kubba is the lead of the
colposcopy unit at Guy’s hospital, one of the
largest units in England. He is on the London Region
NHSCSP Quality Assurance Committee.
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Dr Amanda
Tristram is a Senior Lecturer in Gynaecological
Oncology at the Wales School of Medicine, Cardiff
University. Her clinical practice is in the area of
gynaecological oncology, colposcopy and vulval
disease. Her research interests are in HPV and HPV-related
anogenital neoplasia, including HPV vaccines, novel
therapies and the provision of information for women
about HPV.
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Mr. Andrew John Nordin
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Mr
Andy Nordin is a subspecialist gynaecological
oncologist in the East Kent Gynaecological Oncology
Centre in Margate, and is an Honorary Senior
Lecturer at University College London. He is the
National Clinical Advisor to the Department of
Health’s Cancer Action Team and the NHS Cancer
Improvement programme, and chairs the national group
of cancer network gynaecology clinical leads (NSSG
Leads Group). Andy also chairs the gynaecology
clinical reference group for the National Cancer
Intelligence Network. His research interests
include qualitative psychology, working with the (EORTC)
Quality of Life Group on the development of quality
of life questionnaires and leading on the
endometrial cancer module. Andy’s research and
clinical trials activities include membership of the
EORTC Gynecologic Cancer Group uterine tumour site
committee
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Dr. Azizunnisa
Shaikh
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Dr Azizunnisa Shaikh is presently working as
consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Dubai
Hospital Dubai Health Authority.
She moved from London in 2006 and joined Corniche
Hospital as consultant obstetrician and
gynaecologist until April 2009.
Her areas of interest are medical disorders in
pregnancy, fetal medicine and critical care in
obstetrics. Presently she is working towards the
improvement of care of critically ill pregnant women
in Dubai Hospital.
She obtained her medical graduation from Pakistan in
1982 and joined Pakistan Army for 2 years as a
medical practitioner. She did her MCPS from College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan in 1989. She
moved to UK in 1992 and worked in many hospitals of
London and completed her CCST in Feb 2006. She has
acquired her advanced training skill modules in
maternal medicine, fetal medicine and emergency
gynaecology from RCOG and at present pursuing her
fellowship with Ian Donald School of advanced
scanning in obstetrics and gynaecology.
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Professor Badr Eldeen Ibrahim Ahmed
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Professor Badreldeen Ahmed
is the Head of Feto Maternal Medicine Unit at the
Women’s hospital in Doha, Qatar and Professor of
Obstetrics at Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar.
He is a founding member of the international society
of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG),
and The Academy of Medical Educators. And also a
board member of the world association of prenatal
medicine and also of the Fetus as the Patient
Society.
His
main interest is Fetal medicine and High risk
pregnancy and has published over 40 papers in peer
reviewed Journals. Professor Badreldeen Ahmed founded the
fellowship program in advanced training in
Obstetrics and Gynecology and is the Regional
Director of the I an Donald interuniversity school
of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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Dr. Clare McKenzie
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Dr Clare McKenzie – I am a
Scottish Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
and currently am the RCOG ATSM Officer. I trained
in medicine at Glasgow University and undertook my
postgraduate education in Glasgow and Dundee. I
became a consultant in 1999. My clinical interests
are Gynaecological Cancer and Colposcopy. Currently
I am Chairman of the North of Scotland
Gynaecological Cancer Network and the Scottish
Colposcopy Quality Assurance Group. As a senior
trainee I developed an interest in postgraduate
education and have been involved at various levels
within my local Deanery. I have undertaken the role
of RCOG ATSM Officer for 2 years and have thoroughly
enjoyed this role. I passionately believe in the
development of clinical skills for senior trainees,
which will encourage them to pursue rewarding
medical careers.
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Dr. Catherine Nelson-Piercy
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Catherine Nelson-Piercy is a
Consultant Obstetric Physician at Guy’s and St.
Thomas’ Hospitals Trust and Queen Charlotte’s
Hospital in London. Her undergraduate studies were
at King’s College, Cambridge University and St
Bartholomew’s Hospital. She trained as a physician,
and was taught Obstetric Medicine by Professor
Michael de Swiet. She specialises in the care of
women with medical problems in pregnancy. Dr Nelson-Piercy
runs special joint clinics for women with renal
disease, cardiac, and rheumatic disorders in
pregnancy. She offers pre-pregnancy counselling for
women with pre-existing medical problems and those
with problems in previous pregnancies.
Dr
Nelson-Piercy has been involved in the development
of several evidence-based National Guidelines
notably for “Contraception in Women with Heart
Disease”, BTS / SIGN “Asthma in Pregnancy” and RCOG
Green top guideline on “Reducing
the risk of thromboembolism during pregnancy, birth
& the puerperium”.
She has over 170 publications and has edited four
books and written the successful Handbook of
Obstetric Medicine, now in its third edition.
She is also one of the central assessors for
maternal deaths and chapter author for Heart Disease
in ‘Saving Mothers Lives’, CEMACH (Confidential
Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health) 2000-02 and
2003-5.
Dr Nelson-Piercy is the vice
president and UK representative of the International
Society of Obstetric Medicine (ISOM), sits on the
Education Committee of the British Maternal and
Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS) and was the first
Flexible Working Officer for the Royal College of
Physicians of London, with responsibility for
flexible / part-time training and working. She is
editor in chief of a new journal ‘Obstetric
Medicine: the medicine of pregnancy.’ Dr Nelson-Piercy
was awarded the FRCOG ad eundum in 2007 and
is the youngest ever recipient of this honour.
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Dr. David Luesley
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Dr. David Luesley
is currently the Lawson-Tait Professor of
Gynaecological Oncology at the University of
Birmingham and clinical director for the
pan-Birmingham Gynaecological Cancer Centre at City
Hospital in Birmingham. He is the current president
of the British Gynaecological cancer Society and
have previously served on the councils of the
European Society for Gynaecological Oncology and the
International Gynaecological Cancer SocietyI am a
past president of the BSCCP and joint editor of the
current NHS guidelines governing the NHS Cervical
Screening programme.
He has over 140 peer reviewed publications, 34
chapters in various medical texts and have edited 13
textbooks on various aspects of gynaecology and
gynaecological oncology
His clinical and research interests include
gynaecological oncology, Pre-invasive disease of the
cervix and vulvar disease.
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Professor Ellis Downes
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Professor Ellis Downes is a Consultant Obstetrician
& Gynaecologist in London, United Kingdom. He is
also a Visiting Professor at Middlesex University.
He is a general obstetrician and gynaecologist with
special clinical interests in endoscopic surgery and
urogynaecology. He has extensive research interests
and lectures widely worldwide. He is a Scientific
Editor of the British Journal of Obstetrics &
Gynaecology and the gynaecology representative on
the Committee of Safety of Devises (CSD). His
research interests include comparison of safety and
efficacy of endometrial ablation techniques,
national and international variation in hysterectomy
rates and the evaluation of new medical devices in
gynaecology. Outside medicine he is married with
two teenage children and his hobbies include flying
light aeroplanes and trying to improve his golf.
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Dr. Frank Chervenak
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Frank
A. Chervenak, MD currently serves as the Given
Foundation Professor and Chairman of the Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as
Obstetrician and Gynecologist-in-Chief and the
Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the New York
Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of
Cornell University. He received his Bachelor of
Science degree from Pennsylvania State University
with highest distinction, and his medical degree
from Thomas Jefferson University where he was
elected a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor
Society. Dr. Chervenak served his internship in
Internal Medicine at New York Medical College,
residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York
Medical College in St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital
Center, and a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine
at Yale University School of Medicine. He was
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, where he was also Director
of Perinatal Research and received the Dr. Solomon
Silver Award for application of advances in research
to the practice of Clinical Medicine.
Dr.
Chervenak was appointed Associate Professor of
Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Obstetric
Ultrasound and Ethics at New York Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center in 1987. In 1991 he was named
Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Director of
Obstetrics. In 1992 he was made Full Professor with
tenure, in 1998 he was named Vice Chairman of the
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in 1999
was named Acting Chairman of that department. Dr.
Chervenak was named Chairman and Obstetrician and
Gynecologist-in-Chief in 2000. He received his
Master in Medical Management degree from Carnegie
Mellon University in 2002 and earned fellowship
status from the American College of Physician
Executives in 2008.
Dr.
Chervenak has published over 230 papers in peer
review literature and has co-authored or co-edited
27 textbooks. Research interests include ultrasound
and ethics in obstetrics & gynecology and physician
leadership. Dr. Chervenak has served on the Board
of Governors of the American Institute in Ultrasound
and Medicine and the Society of Perinatal
Obstetricians. He has served as President of the
International Fetal Medicine in Surgery Society, the
New York Perinatal Society and the New York Academy
of Medicine Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
and the New York Obstetrical Society. Currently,
Dr. Chervenak serves as President of the
International Society of the Fetus as a Patient,
President of the World Association of Perinatal
Medicine, Vice-president of the International
Academy of Perinatal Medicine, and Co-director of
The Ian Donald Inter-University School of Medicine
and Ultrasound. He serves on the March of Dimes
Bioethics Committee and Prematurity Research
Advisory Committee.
He has
been awarded honorary doctorates from Semmelweis
University in Budapest, Hungary, and the University
of Athens, Greece. He is an honorary member of the
Italian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Barcelona Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Romanian Obstetric and Gynecologic Society,
Hungarian Ultrasound Society, and the Texas Society
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a Corresponding
Member of the Academy of Medical Science of Croatia.
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Professor Gamal El-Din
Abou El Serour
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Dr.
Gamal Serour received a
M.D. at Cairo University in 1963; MRCOG 1970; FRCS,
Edinburgh 1972; FRCOG (1990). He is currently
professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Director
International Islamic Center For Population Studies
and Research, Al Azhar University (IICPSR), and
former Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology
department and Former Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Al
Azhar University.
He authored
and co-authored 368 papers published in
international, regional and national journals and 21
chapters in international books. He edited and co-
edited 16 books. He is a reviewer and member of the
international Editorial Board of several
International journals in Obstetrics and gynecology
Human Reproduction, Infertility, population science
and Ethics. He has been an invited speaker and
keynote speaker at national, regional and
international conferences organized by ESHRE, IFFS,
ASRM, FIGO, IAB and other societies of Ob/Gyn around
the world.
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Professor Gordon Smith
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Gordon CS Smith, MD PhD, is
Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics
and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, UK. He
studied at Glasgow University and graduated in
Medicine in 1990. He trained in Obstetrics &
Gynaecology in Glasgow, obtaining sub-specialist
accreditation in Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 2001. He
had two periods of full time Wellcome Trust clinical
research training fellowships: Glasgow University
(1992-1993) and Cornell University, USA (1996-1999).
His clinically orientated research focuses on the
use of maternal, ultrasonic and biochemical data to
determine associations with adverse pregnancy
outcome. He is the principle investigator in a
prospective cohort study of unselected first
pregnancies. He has published over 90 peer reviewed
papers in national and international journals
including Nature, NEJM, JAMA and Lancet. He is a
Senior Investigator of the National Institute for
Health Research (UK) and a Clinical Professor in the
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UTMB Texas,
USA.
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Dr. Hisham Mirghani
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Dr. Hisham Mohamed Mirghani is
the Acting Chief of the Fetal Medicine Unit at Tawam
Hospital, and the President of Emirates Perinatal
Society. He completed a Master of Obstetrics &
Gynecology at Khartoum University in Sudan and went
on to become a member of the Arab Board of Medical
Specializations for Obstetricians & Gynecologist.
He also obtained the Diploma in Advance Obstetrical
Ultrasound awarded by the Royal College of
Obstetricians & Gynaecologist and the Royal College
of Radiologists Standing Joint Committee. He then
completed a two years Fellowship in Maternal fetal
medicine from University of Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Hisham has been associated
with the Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists for many years, becoming a member in
1995 and recently becoming a fellow in 2007. Dr.
Hisham is also an Associate Professor in the
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at UAE
University.
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Professor John Sean
Kehoe
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Qualified in Trinity College Dublin and trained in
Ireland and came to the UK in the early 1990’s to
take up the CRC Gynaecological Oncology Fellowship ,
at Birmingham University.
Undertook research into the intra-peritoneal
environment [ tumour growth and immunity] after
surgery for ovarian carcinoma , obtained an MD with
TCD.Appointed Lecturer, then Lecturer/subspeciality
Trainee in Gynaecological Oncology University of
Birmingham and then Senior Lecturer.
Appointed Foundation Professor of Gynaecological
Cancer, John Radcliffe Hospital, commencing clinical
work in 2003 and founded the Oxford Gynaecological
Cancer Centre in 2005, which cares for a population
of 2 million persons.
Presently
Lead
Clinician for Gynaecological Oncology & Colposcopy,
Oxford
Director of Training, Gynaecological Oncology
Chairman NSSG Gynaecological Oncology, Thames
Valley.
RCOG:
Convenor of Study Group 2008-
Council
Member of BGCS
Medical
Advisor/Trustee of OVACOME
Senior
Research Fellow of St. Peters College Oxford
Chief
Investigator of CHORUS an MRC randomised trial on
the timing of surgery in advanced ovarian cancer.
Lectures regularly on all aspects of Gynaecological
Cancer to National and International Meetings .
Published widely on Gynaecological Cancer topics.
Advisory Editor to EJOG, EJSO and Editorial Board
member of BJOG.
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Mr. Jonathan Frappell
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Dr. Jonathan Frappell have been a
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at
Derriford Hospital Plymouth since April 1991.
Whilst maintaining a broad experience in all aspects
of obstetrics and gynaecology, he has developed a
particular expertise in minimal access
gynaecological surgery, both laparoscopic and
hysteroscopic
Dr. Frappell
graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital London MBBS
in 1977. Following a surgical training programme in
Bristol he gained the Fellowship of the College of
Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh in 1983. He
then embarked upon specialist training in obstetrics
and gynaecology, as a registrar and senior registrar
at St Georges Hospital London, from where he was
appointed to my consultant post in Plymouth. He
gained the MRCOG in 1986 and was awarded the
Fellowship of the College in 1998.
He has
served on the Board of the British Society for
Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE) since 1996 and was
Vice President from 2002 – 2004. He is currently
Vice President (President Elect) of the Society.
He is the founder and director of the Plymouth
post graduate course in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery and have been an RCOG
preceptor for over ten years.
He has
a strong clinical research interest in minimal
access surgery, and continue to innovate and publish
work in this field.
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Dr. Margaret Blott
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Dr Maggie Blott is a Consultant in Obstetrics and
Maternal Medicine at University College Hospital in
London. Dr Blott has a major interest and
considerable expertise in postgraduate education and
is currently Vice President (Education) at the Royal
College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).
She has lead the RCOG team responsible for
developing the curriculum and assessment tools for
approval of PMETB and has lead the highly successful
RCOG lead recruitment round in 2008. She currently
chairs the Education Board at the RCOG.
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Mr. Paul Hilton
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Paul
Hilton is currently Consultant Gynaecologist and
Urogynaecologist with the Newcastle upon Tyne
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Paul Hilton graduated in medicine
from Newcastle University 1974. After his
postgraduate training, including a period of
research and clinical training in urogynaecology at
St. George’s Hospital, London he returned to the
north-east initially as Senior Lecturer and honorary
consultant (1983); he was appointed to his current
post as Consultant Gynaecologist and
Urogynaecologist with the Newcastle upon Tyne
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 1991.
His main clinical and research interests include:
the pathophysiology and epidemiology of pelvic floor
dysfunction; epidemiology and management of
urogenital fistulae both in the developing world and
in the UK; surgery for recurrent incontinence and
prolapse, and other aspects of reconstructive
gynaecological surgery; randomised clinical trials,
particularly relating to the investigation and
treatment of stress urinary incontinence. He is
regularly invited to lecture both nationally and
internationally, and has published over 200 peer-reviewed
articles, chapters, books and reviews covering
many aspects of urogynaecology.
Awards include: Blair-Bell
Lectureship, 1983; Green Armytage and Spackman
Scholarship, 1989; RCOG Historical Lecturer 1992;
Florence and William Blair-Bell Memorial Fellowship,
1993; Charter Day Lecturer, National Maternity
Hospital, Dublin, 1999; Honorary Member, Society for
Gynecologic Surgeons, 2002;
Victor Bonney Prize Lectureship, 2005.
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Professor Philip Steer
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Philip Steer is Emeritus
Professor of Obstetrics in the Faculty of Medicine,
Imperial College London, and a consultant at the
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where he is part
of the High Risk Obstetrics Team. His particular
clinical interest is in cardiac disease in
pregnancy. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of BJOG,
an International Journal of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, and President of the section of O&G of
the Royal Society of Medicine. He was President of
the British Association of Perinatal Medicine from
1996-99, and Convenor of Meetings for the RCOG from
2004 to 2006. He chaired the scientific programme
committee for the 2007 British International
Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The major
international textbook ‘High Risk Pregnancy –
management options’ that he co-edits with David
James, Carl Weiner and Bernie Gonik, is shortly to
publish its fourth edition. He has published 103
original papers in peer reviewed journals, 56
editorials and invited reviews, and 51 books/book
chapters. He lectures widely and has given 16 major
invited lectures overseas in the last 3 years. Over
the last 20 years, he has been a principal
investigator on 23 grants totalling almost £9.5
million, and 18 of his research fellows have been
awarded higher degrees.
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Ms. Ranee Thakar
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Ranee Thakar is
a Subspecialist in Urogynaecology and Consultant
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Mayday University
Hospital, Croydon as well as a honorary senior
lecturer at St George’s University of London. Her
research involved studying the effects of
hysterectomy on bowel, bladder and sexual function
following. This led to a landmark paper which was
published in the New England Journal of Medicine and
to a Doctorate (MD) from the University of London.
She is the chair of the
meetings subcommittee of the British Society of
Urogynaecology (BSUG) and has been elected as the
next secretary of BSUG. She is also the chair of the
education committee of the International
Urogynecological Association.
She is currently a
consultant in a busy tertiary referral
urogynaecology department at Mayday University
Hospital, with a large clinical workload, dealing
with complex urogynaecological problems, teaching
medical students, training junior doctors and
undertaking clinical research. Her publications
include many original papers in peer review journals
and chapters in books. She is the co-editor of the
first comprehensive textbook on perineal and anal
sphincter trauma. Along with Abdul Sultan she runs
the popular perineal repair courses at Mayday
Hospital The unit is recognised for subspecialty
training in urogynaecology and runs an active
research programme. The Croydon continence team was
awarded The UK Continence Team of the year in 2005.
Ranee Thakar is actively involved in the
conservative and surgical management of pelvic floor
disorders (bowel and bladder incontinence, prolapse
and sexual dysfunction).
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Mr. Richard Warren
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Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, since 1987
and Divisional/Clinical Director for the Women &
Children’s Services (2000 – 2004), at the Norfolk &
Norwich University Foundation Hospital, NHS Trust.
Honorary Secretary of the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2004 - current)
Current
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RCOG
Council (since 2000)
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Chairman of the Services Board
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National Lead for Equivalence,
Communications, External Affairs and Membership
Services.
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Membership on multiple RCOG
committees, including the Finance & Executive
Committee, Consumers Forum and the Management Audit
Committee
Previously
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RCOG Chair of the Medical Workforce
Advisory Committee,
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Member of Standards Board, and the
Services Board,
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Fellows’ Representative for Eastern
England,
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Regional College Adviser,
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Regional Chair of Training and
District Tutor.
Trained at King’s College Hospital, University of
London (MRC Research Fellow in Fetal Medicine &
Chorionic Villius Sampling (CVS)
Clinical and research interests in Fetal Medicine,
HRT and the Menopause.
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Dr. Seoud Mudiehddine
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, American
University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon
Dr Muhieddine Seoud had his MD from the
AUB in 1981. He then completed residency training
in Obstetrics and Gynecology at AUBMC and passed the
Arab Board of speciality in 1987. In 1988, he had
another residency training at the Eastern Virginia
Medical School and the Jones Institute of IVF in
Norfolk, Virginia. He completed a fellowship in
Pelvic Surgery and Gynecologic Oncology at the
Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City,
Kansas. He is American Board Certified and a Fellow
of the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists since 1995, of the American College of
Surgeons in 2003, and of the American Society of
Gynecologist Oncologists in 2008. He returned to
Lebanon and the AUBMC, and became the chairman of
the department from 2001-2003, and where he is still
a professor. He is the immediate past-president of
the Lebanese Ob-Gyn society. He is on the board of
medical advisors of several international
pharmaceutical companies He has published over 80
original manuscripts in American and European
Journals and presented in over 85 scientific
meetings in the US, Europe and the Middle East. He
has focused his research on the field of
gynaecologic oncology. Professor Seoud’s recent
research has centered on the molecular biology of
molar pregnancy, the effect of Tamoxifen on the GYN
tract, chemotherapy and radiotherapy for cervical
cancer and the incidence of HPV
in genital dysplasia/cancer
in Lebanon and the Middle East.
He is the recipient of several
local and international grants.
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Dr. Sohier Elneil
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Miss Sohier Elneil is
a Consultant Urogynaecologist and Gynaecologist at
University College Hospital and the National
Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) in
London. Her interest in uro-gynaecology and uro-neurology
started in the mid-late 1990’s where she realised
that many women with intractable pelvic floor
dysfunction (e.g. urinary incontinence, prolapsed
and chronic pelvic pain) often suffered global
disruption to their social and working lives. For
all these problems, there were no easy solutions.
Hence, she went on to do a PhD at the University of
Cambridge on the physiology and pharmacology of the
dysfunctional bladder. This was with a view to
determine whether the patho-physiology could be
elucidated, and hence form the focus for new drug
therapies. This naturally led on to her current
interest in the altered neurology in bladder and
pelvic floor dysfunction and novel neuromodulator
therapies. The latter include botulinum toxin
therapy and sacral neuromodulation.
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Professor Stephen
Robson
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Stephen Robson MB BS MRCOG MD
is Professor of Fetal Medicine and a member of the
Institute of Cellular Medicine at Newcastle
University. After graduating from Newcastle
University he undertook further training in
Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Northern Region of
England. He was subsequently appointed to a
Lectureship at the RPMS Institute of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea
Hospital in London after which he was awarded a RCOG
Subspecialty Training Fellowship. After completing
subspecialty training & Maternal at University
College Hospital, London, he returned to Newcastle
University as Senior Lecturer, prior to being
appointed Professor of Fetal Medicine in 1994.
His main research interests are;
uterine cell signalling, mechanisms of myometrial
quiescence and clinical trials in the area of high
risk pregnancy.prenatal screening. He has been
involved in the development and audit of national
guidelines relating to obstetric care and is closely
involved with the UK Comprehensive Research Network.
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Dr. Tahir Mahmood
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Dr. Tahir Mahmood is a Clinical
Senior Lecturer at Universities of Edinburgh, St
Andrews, Aberdeen, and Dundee. He is also a teaching
sub dean for undergraduate curriculum at the Dundee
Medical School.
Dr Mahmood has served for 11
years on the RCOG Council, was chairman of Hospital
Recognition Committee and was appointed Vice
President for Standards in September 2007.
His research interests are in
the area of the induction of labour and
outcome-related obstetric audits, the
pathophysiology of pelvic endometriosis, and a wide
range of publications in the area of clinical audit
involving all obstetric units in Scotland.
He is involved with the ongoing
work of SPCERH (Scottish Programme of Clinical
Effectiveness & Reproductive Healthcare) and
contributed to the fourth Annual Report on Maternal
Morbidity in Scotland.
He is Medical Adviser to the
Jennifer Brown Research Fund (Piggy Bank Kids) which
has raised £250,000 for midwifery-led projects in
Fife.
RCOG
His responsibilities as Vice
President Standards are related to:
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Setting standards in
obstetrics and gynaecology
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Supporting the work of the
Ethics, Guidelines and Scientific Advisory
Committees
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Promoting the work of the
recently established National Clinical Networks
in Reproductive Healthcare programme of the RCOG
and the Office of Research and Clinical Audit
(ORCA), jointly working with the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Chaired the RCOG Working
Party on Recertification.
The RCOG Standards Directorate
also deals with domestic affairs of the four nations
of the UK related to service reconfiguration,
connecting with Healthcare Regulators, and also
dealing with colleagues in difficulty.
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Dr Mahmood also chaired the
Working Party on Standards in Gynaecology and
was closely involved in the Working Party on
Standards for Maternity Care. Both of these
documents were launched on the 2nd
July 2008 to mark the 60th
anniversary of founding the NHS.
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Dr. Tarek Ansari
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Graduated from
Alexandria faculty of medicine, Egypt in 1981,
trained in Anesthesia in Egypt, Kuwait and
Edinburgh. A fellow of the faculty of Anaesthetists
at the Royal College of surgeons in Ireland since
1993. Joined Corniche hospital as a senior registrar
in anaesthetics back in 1996, and was promoted to a
consultant the same year. Consultnat obstetric
anaesthetist for the last 12 years, with special
interest in acute pain management, the anaesthetic
management of critically ill mothers and risk
management in anaesthesia. Chief of service for the
anaesthesia directorate at Corniche Hospital since
2004.
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Dr. Tony Falconer
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Dr Anthony Dale
Falconer is a
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Senior Vice President, Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
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Current Clinical Responsibilities:
Gynaecological Oncology and Colposcopy
-Extensive
local and regional roles as Clinical Director and
Divisional Director
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Major
role in regional cancer agenda
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Chairman, RCOG International Executive Board
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Member of several RCOG Committees
Dr Tony
Falconer is a graduate of Bristol University, having
undertaken his clinical training at Royal Infirmary,
Edinburgh, University of Nottingham and Groote
Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.
Having
been Fellows’ representative (England and Wales) on
the Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologists
Council since 2001, he was elected as Senior Vice
President of that College in 2007.
RCOG
Work
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Dr
Falconer has led an international advocacy
campaign, with the support of FIGO & EBCOG, to
improve the awareness of the G8 leaders, the UN
and European commission to the tragedy of global
Maternal Mortality (2008). This work has been
acknowledged in Japan 2008, through improved
investment in health care workers for Africa.
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He
continues to meet with British Parliamentarians
(International Development Select Committees,
2007/2008) and the Department for International
Development.
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Lord Crisp will use RCOG’s input as he
implements capacity development of health care
workers in Africa (2009).
These
initiatives have positioned the RCOG as a critical
source of information in women’s health globally.
Dr Falconer has recently visited and established
postgraduate educational links with Kurdistan,
Libya, India, East & South Africa (2007-08), Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh and Sudan (2009).
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Dr.
Amr
Hassan El-Shalakany
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Originally from Egypt, Dr.
Amr Hassan El-Shalakany
is a professor of obstetrics & gynecology with
subspecialty in gynecological oncology, at Ain Shams
University in Cairo. He received his MD
qualifications in 1992 also at Ain Shams University,
and FRCOG in London during 2004.
Dr. Amr Hassan El-Shalakany is currently the
chairman of the Egyptian Representative Committee of
the RCOG and a member of International
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Dr.
Bill Martin
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Bill Martin carried out subspecialty training at the
Birmingham Women’s Hospital and is a consultant in
Feto-Maternal Medicine at the Birmingham Women’s NHS
Foundation Trust. He co-founded a dedicated multiple
pregnancy clinic within the Trust providing
antenatal and intrapartum care. He is involved in
the provision of invasive and non-invasive
diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in complicated
multiple pregnancy
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Dr. Geraldine
O'Sullivan
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Lead clinician for obstetric anaesthesia at St Thomas’
Hospital, the largest maternity unit in London and a
tertiary referral centre for high-risk pregnancies.
Past President of the Obstetric Anaesthetists Association (OAA),
the largest sub-speciality society in anaesthesia.
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Mr. Julian Woolfson
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Julian
Woolfson has been in active obstetric and
gynaecological for over 30 years. He retired from
the NHS in January 2007 and now divides his time
between private medical practice, medicolegal work
and being
Honorary Treasurer of the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He is a member of
the editorial boards of both of the College
scientific journals and the Meetings Committee,
which oversees all major educational activities in
the College. He led the RCOG’s CPD and Appraisal
programs and lectures widely on clinical governance
and medicolegal matters. He has a Masters degree in
Laws (Legal Aspects of Medical Practice) from the
University of Cardiff Law School and in 2008 was
made an OBE for services to Higher Education.
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Mr. Nicholas Panay
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Consultant Gynaecologist, Sub-specialist in
Reproductive Medicine & Surgery
Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital, Imperial
College Healthcare NHS Trust and Chelsea &
Westminster Foundation Hospital, London, Honorary
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London
Nick Panay has worked in Gynaecology for more than
15 years. As director of the West London Menopause &
PMS Centre at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and
Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals, he head's a busy
clinical and research team which publishes widely,
presents at scientific meetings and trains health
professionals at all levels. He has written the PMS
green top guidelines for the management of severe
premenstrual syndrome for the Royal College of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
He has also set up a number of specialist clinics
that reflect the multidisciplinary approach to the
menopause, including a premature ovarian failure
clinic. Over 400 young women with premature
menopause, predominantly iatrogenic, are managed in
this clinic. He also set up the operative outpatient
hysteroscopy centre at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital to
facilitate the one stop treatment of women with
bleeding disorders.
Nick is currently the co - Editor in Chief of
Climacteric, the journal of the International
Menopause Society
As council member of the The British Menopause
Society, British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy
and The Royal Society of Medicine, Patron of Daisy
Network, Lecturer for Wellbeing of Women, and
Chairman of The National Association for
Premenstrual Syndrome, he has campaigned actively
for women's health issues both nationally and
internationally.
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Mr. Robin Alfred
Crawford
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Robin Crawford graduated with distinction from
Cambridge University in 1985 having undertaken his
Part 2 degree in cell biology and his clinical
studies at St Thomas’ Hospital. Pursuing his
interest in cervical pathology, Robin developed his
surgical expertise by first taking his London
surgical fellowship whilst working at the Royal
Marsden Hospital. His training was based largely
around London teaching hospitals with time spent at
University College London, St Bartholomew’s Hospital
and the Royal Mardsen. His training was finished by
his acquiring his MD thesis on cervical cancer from
London University. Experience was broadened by a six
month posting to Monash Medical Centre Melbourne
Australia. Robin developed the gynaecological
oncology centre at Addenbrookes Hospital where he
started in 1998. He has interests in surgical
oncology and is a keen proponent of laparoscopic
techniques for management of gynaecological cancer.
His research portfolio includes work on the
prediction of response, human papilloma virus
disease and surgical oncology. He is a member of the
International Gynecological Cancer Society
presenting on a regular basis and has been a past
council member of the British Gynaecological Cancer
Society. He was lead for the West Anglian Cancer
network for gynaecology and has been a
representative for gynaecological cancer on the
Sub-specialty committee at the RCOG. Surgical
training is important and our fellows have been
placed in consultant posts around the world.
Continuing development of research themes within the
newly formed academic health science centre will be
important in the next five years in Cambridge. 248
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Mr. Justin Clark
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Justin Clark
qualified from Birmingham University Medical School
in 1993. He trained in
Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Leicester, Birmingham
and the West Midlands and obtained the Membership of
the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG)
in 1999. He spent two years
conducting research into heavy menstrual bleeding,
pelvic pain and endometriosis culminating in a
Doctor of Medicine awarded with honours in 2004. He
was appointed as a Lecturer in Gynaecology at
Birmingham University and Consultant in Obstetrics
and Gynaecology at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital
in 2004.He has developed clinical expertise in the
management of general gynaecological conditions,
especially the treatment of menstrual disorders,
fibroids, pelvic pain and endometriosis. This
capability was facilitated by the acquisition of
RCOG accreditation in minimal access ‘key hole’
surgery, specialising in hysteroscopic and
laparoscopic techniques, and gynaecological
ultrasound. He has been at the forefront in
pioneering outpatient interventions for the
diagnosis and treatment of menstrual disorders
utilising hysteroscopy and ultrasound. His strong
research background and clinical experience enabled
him to publish a definitive book in 2005 about the
modern management of common gynaecological problems
utilising minimally invasive approaches. He is one
of the leading UK experts in outpatient therapeutic
interventions in benign gynaecology including
outpatient ‘office’ hysteroscopic removal of polyps
and fibroids, endometrial ablation and the new
‘non-cut’ outpatient method of female sterilisation
(the ‘EssureTM’ system) that avoids the need for
general anaesthetic and hospital admission. He
maintains close links with the University of
Birmingham, both in research and teaching, where he
is an Honorary Senior Lecturer and Clinical Subdean.
He is actively involved with the training of medical
students, junior doctors and GPs with an interest in
gynaecology. His clinical and research interests lie
in the management of abnormal.
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Dr.
Nykne van den Broek
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Senior Clinical Lecturer Sexual and
Reproductive Health, Honorary Consultant
Obstetrician Gynaecologist.
FRCOG, PhD, DTM&H
Over 20
years professional experience working in sexual and
reproductive health in developing countries
including Africa and Asia. Extensive experience of
improving reproductive health services, especially
maternal health services,and developing capacity in
developing countries. Extensive research experience;
planning, conducting and supervising both
quantitative and qualitative research programs in
the areas of maternal and neonatal care and
gynaecological morbidity. Experience in devising.
managing and implementing a range of projects and
programs to improve quality of care; improving
effectiveness of and access to antenatal care,
creating woman-friendly and effective care for
Emergency/Essential Obstetric Services; enabling a
multidisciplinary approach to maternal and neonatal
health care. Contributing widely to the body of
literature and knowledge on Sexual and Reproductive
Health.Course
Convener for Diploma in Reproductive Health in
Developing Countries.Director of LSTM/RCOG
Partnership.
Senior Technical Advisor for
Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health .
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