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Geeta Nargund
Medical Director
Geeta Nargund is the Head of Reproductive Medicine at St George’s Hospital, London, as well as the Medical Director of the Centre for
Reproduction and Advanced Technology. Her research interests and publications
include Natural/Mild IVF and Advanced Ultrasound in Reproductive Medicine. She
has published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and abstracts
including several book chapters on assisted reproduction technology (ART). She
has been an invited speaker at several international scientific meetings. She
is the President of the International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted
Reproduction (ISMAAR) (
www.ismaar.org).She is also the Chair of the Special Task Force on Mild IVF for the European
Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology(ESHRE).She is also a member of
the ESHRE Special Task force and World Health Organisation (WHO) Expert Group on “infertility in developing countries” .She is a Visiting Professor at St Marco University Lima ,Peru and SDM Medical
College, India.
She is passionate about prevention of infertility & making assisted conception treatments more physiological, safer and affordable
globally.
She is the Founder & Chief Executive of the UK national charity, Health Education Research (HER)
Trust (www.hertrust.org).
She has been a Senior Governor of Primary & Secondary Schools in South London.
She has been actively involved in National & International Charities promoting Education, Women’s development, Equality and Diversity.
Please click here for more details of Geeta’s internationally recognised academic work
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Professor Stuart Campbell
Consultant & Director of Ultrasound
Stuart Campbell studied Medicine at Glasgow University and trained in Ob/Gyn
under Professor Ian Donald, the pioneer of diagnostic ultrasound. He moved to
London where he developed the standard techniques of fetal biometry and
pioneered early prenatal diagnosis of fetal
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abnormalities by ultrasound. He was the first to point out the importance of
routine scanning in pregnancy. He was made Professor and Head of the Department
of Ob/Gyn at King’s College, London where he built up one of the world’s leading centres of Fetal Medicine. He carried out research into the fetal
circulatory response to hypoxaemia and pioneered screening for pre-eclampsia by
uterine artery Doppler. He also introduced screening for ovarian cancer by
ultrasound. His present interest is 3D/4D ultrasound in Ob/Gyn. He has written
over 400 peer reviewed publications. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of
Science by London University in 1998. He was the first President of ISUOG and
was the founding Editor of the journal ‘Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology’. His current publications are about 3D/4D Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Vinod Nargund
Consultant Andrologist
Vinod Nargund was trained in Urology Units at City Hospital Belfast, Royal
Infirmary Bradford and Churchill and John Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford. He is
specialised in urological cancers, testicular diseases and andrology. He was
trained in laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery at Erasme University Hospital,
Brussels and Oscar Lambret Cancer Centre at Lille, France. He spent sabbatical
at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, New York for advancement of GU Cancer
training. He is also actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate
medical teaching. His research interests include early diagnosis of
genito-urinary cancer, angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis and minimally
invasive management of GU cancers and male infertility.
Freda Cuffe
Lead Nurse & Patient Support Group Co-ordinator
Freda qualified as a general nurse in 1997, she has worked in women’s health since then and has been working within the fertility field since 1999.
She trained at Kings College Hospital and has extensive experience in ultrasound
scanning and IVF procedures. She has worked in both private and NHS funded
units. Clinically she is one of the few nurses in the
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country who performs oocyte collections.
She will be co-ordinating the new patient support group for Create health
Clinic.
Maria Bonada
Chief Embryologist
Mr. Efstathios Theodorou, MRCOG, BSCCP
Specialist in Reproductive Medicine & Gynaecology
Mr. Efstathios Theodorou is a Specialist in Reproductive Medicine and
Gynaecology. He started his medical studies in Greece and then moved to United
Kingdom. Since then he has worked in busy district and University hospitals.
During that time he was awarded the Membership of the RCOG (Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) and entered the Specialist Register for
Obstetrics and Gynaecology (accredited Consultant for UK and EU). He was also trained in colposcopy at Hammersmith Hospital, one the biggest tertiary
referral centres for cervical pathology and gained accreditation of BSCCP
(British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology).
His passion for Reproductive medicine and assisted conception led him to work in
busy fertility and IVF units. During that time he was awarded the British Fertility Society
diplomas for ultrasound, and embryo transfer. He has personally managed
hundreds of IVF cycles and he is very experienced in oocyte collections . He has a very good
record in embryo transfer success rate and can deal with the most difficult of
them.
His research interests are in Ultrasound in Gynaecology and stimulation
protocols.
Lakshmi Chirumamilla
Specialist in Reproductive Medicine
Ms Mollie Graneek
Independent Counsellor
Harvinder Bains PhD
Senior Embryologist
Debi Bent
Healthcare Assistant
Kelcy Tanya Selinas
Healthcare Assistant
Samantha Brooker
Administrator
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Maria Mattia
Medical Secretary & Administrator
Sonnette de Waal
Medical Secretary & Administrator
Neel Shah
Finance, Marketing and Strategey Manager
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