Claus Yding Andersen is Scientific Director of Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark and Professor of Human Reproductive Physiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
Professor Andersen was member of the team that introduced IVF to Denmark in the mid-1980s and has during the last 20 years headed a national program of cryopreservation of human ovarian and testicular tissue. He is considered one of the pioneers in this field.
Professor Andersen’s major research contributions are ovarian endocrinology, oocyte maturation, cryopreservation of gonadal tissue, human embryonic stem cells and development of new principles for ovarian stimulation including introduction of the agonist trigger and novel approaches to luteal phase support.
He has published more than 440 scientific papers. His current H-index is 80 (Google Scholar) with more than 22.000 citations and he has made numerous international presentations and is currently chief editor on the Reproduction section of Frontiers in Endocrinology (IF 5.5).

Cem S. Atabekoğlu
He was born in Ankara on February 03, 1971. He completed his undergraduate education in Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 1994. Between 1994-1999, he completed his specialty training in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the same university and worked as a specialist at the same institution from 2000 to 2006. Also during this period, he served as a lecturer at Ankara University Cebeci Health College. At post doctorate period, he also visited Yale University in America with the support of the Turkish German Gynecology Association in 2005. He carried out studies with Dr. Aydın Arıcı for 6 months especially focusing on the pathophysiology of endometriosis and reproductive medicine.
He received the title of Associate Professor in 2006. Cem Atabekoğlu was awarded the title of Professor in 2011. He served as a head of Ankara University Obstetrics and Gynecology Department between April 2012-April 2018. His special interest is reproductive medicine and endoscopic surgery. Cem Atabekoğlu has over 150 articles, 100 of which are international, most of them are related to these issues, he is an author of sections in both international and national books. He has been a board member of the TSRM (Turkish Reproductive Health Association) since 2016.

DIOGO AYRES-DE-CAMPOS, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Medical School – University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Chair of the Obstetrics Department of the Santa Maria University Hospital, Lisbon.
His main scientific areas of interest are intrapartum fetal monitoring and obstetric simulation. He is a co-inventor of the “Omniview-SisPorto®” program for computer analysis of fetal monitoring signals (Speculum, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006), the clinical record database Obscare (Virtualcare, Porto, Portugal, 2002), and was the medical consultant for the development of the “Lucina®” obstetric simulator (CAE Healthcare, Montreal, Canada, 2014).
With an h-index of 32, he has published 145 papers in international Medline-indexed journals, edited 2 international books, and has given 241 invited lectures at international scientific meetings. He was Editor-in-chief of the “Acta Obstetrica e Ginecologica Portuguesa” 2006-2010, and Associate Editor of “ISRN Obstetrics and Gynecology” 2012-2014.
He is the President of the “European Association of Perinatal Medicine – EAPM”, Executive Committee Member of the “European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynecology – EBCOG”, and co-ordinator of the EBCOG Part 2 Exam. Between 2010 and 2018 he integrated the “Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health committee” at the “International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology – FIGO”, where he coordinated the 2015 revision of the “FIGO guidelines on intrapartum fetal monitoring”. He participated in the World Health Organisation consensus panels for “Recommendations on antenatal care” and “Intrapartum care and reduction of unnecessary caesarean section”.
He is the President of the “Federation of Portuguese Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology – FSPOG”, a Board member of the Sub-speciality in Maternal-Fetal Medicine of the Portuguese General Medical Council, and presided over the “National Commission for Reduction of Cesarean Section rates”, nominated by the Portuguese Ministry of Health.

Prof. Pierluigi Benedetti Panici is the Director of University Department of Gynecological and Obstetrics Sciences and Urological Sciences Umberto I Hospital, University “Sapienza” of Rome since October 2016 onward.
After the medical degree ‘cum laude’ at University “Sapienza” of Rome in 1975, he was medical assistant at the Department of Gynecologic Oncology of National Cancer Institute (Milan) and at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Catholic University (Rome). He was also Honorary Assistant at Breast Unit Cancer Research Found Guy’s Hospital of London in 1983 and Assistant Professor and Head of the Gynecology Oncology Section from 1986 to 1991 at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Catholic University (Rome).
He has a great experience in Gynecologic-Oncologic Surgery and paid particular attention to this research field along time.
He is primary operator of more than 9000 major gynaecological oncology surgical procedures for gynaecological cancer (cervix, endometrium, ovary, vulva, vagina) and of more than 12.000 major gynaecological surgery procedures for benign disease, including major operative laparoscopies, pelvic floor reconstructive surgery, operative hysteroscopies.
Finally, he is author of more than 500 international publications with a H-index Scopus score of 60.
He is member of numerous scientific societies.
Grants
• Poster Award – S.G.O.’s, 26° Annual Meeting, The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, San Francisco, 1995.
• Visiting Professor al Memorial Sloan Kettering Center di New York Barbara Moore Jordan Foundation Conference, 1997.
• Visiting Professor al Comprehensive Cancer Center Um Sylvester, University of Miami, School of Medicine, 1999.
• Poster Award – Best Endometriosis Paper – 31th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists, 2002.
• “Kurt Semm Award for Excellence in Laparoscopy”, Best Oral Presentation at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists, Las Vegas, 2003.
• “Wertheim Award” for outstanding in Gynecologic Oncology, Austrian Society of Gynecologic Oncology. ASGO, Vienna, 2005.
• Resectoscopic versus bipolar electrode excision of endometrial polyps: A randomized Study. 3rd prize Golden hysteroscope award. American Association of Gynecological, Laparoscopists, AAGL, Chicago, 2005.
• Histological analysis of endometrioma: what the surgeon needs to know.1st prize Carlo Romanini Award. American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists, AAGL, Chicago, 2005.
• 2nd Place “Kott Award for Best New Minimally Invasive Technique”, 37th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists, Washington, 2007.

Professor Kitty W.M. Bloemenkampis a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist, Wilhelmina’s Children Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Her Residency training programme in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine was followed in Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden (1997-2002). Her PhD Thesis: “Oral contraceptives, venous thrombosis and the role of coagulation defects” was at the department of Clinical Epidemiology. Thereafter she became a Fellow Maternal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at University College Hospitals, London, United Kingdom (2003). She was appointed as a maternal fetal medicine specialist at the department of Obstetrics of Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) (2004-2015).

Her main research interest is “Maternal Health” globally, the health of a woman throughout her (reproductive) lifecycle is investigated. From preconception, complicated (early) pregnancy, towards delivery, postpartum and consequences of these complications later in life. Especially maternal mortality and morbidity. With special interest in PPH, Covid 19 in pregnancy, maternal vaccination and induction of labour. She has been involved in designing, conducting, analysing and writing articles in several national and international research projects in the field of Obstetrics. Resulting in more than 200 publications in important medical journals. She is at present and has been Principal Investigator of several RCTs, case control, cohortstudies and experimental studies in the field of Maternal Health.

She is the Chairman of Nethoss (Netherlands Obstetric Survey Study, nationwide ongoing registration study), Audit Committee of Maternal Mortality, Netherlands and of INOSS (International Network of Obstetric Survey Systems). She works in close collaboration with the Julius Centre of the UMCU. In these networks she collaborates with many different stakeholders in LMICs and High income countries in order to improve the quality of care for mothers and their newborns by introduction of populationbased registrationsystems, audit of maternal morbidity and mortality. Implementation of lessons learned into guidelines who are implemented by a bottom up approach. With the support of the UMCU Global Health Grants she is able to help LMICS with capacity building by supervising PhD fellows from LMICs.

Lex Bouter has a tenured chair in Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit. He is currently involved research and teaching on research integrity topics. He was professor of Epidemiology since 1992 and served his university as its rector between 2006 and 2013. Professor Bouter has supervised 77 PhD students, of whom to date 17 were appointed as professor. He is the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.
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Jacky Boivin
Undergraduate education
Bachelor of Arts, Honours in Psychology, Concordia University (May, 1986). Conferred with distinction.
Postgraduate education
Doctorate of Philosophy in Psychology, Concordia University (January, 1995).
Master of Arts, Clinical Psychology, Concordia University (May, 1990).
Biography
My contribution to the field, academic standing and credibility have been recognised through awards, prestigious appointments, multidisciplinary collaborations and membership in consortia, networks, editorial boards and other influential national and international organisations in the field.

Mats Brännström completed his MD in 1985 and a PhD in Physiology in 1988. After residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, he subspecialized in Gynecological Oncology and in recent years also in Reproductive Medicine. His main research interest for the first half of his scientific career was basic ovarian physiology and clinical conditions associated to ovarian disorders. Professor Brännström has published around 150 scientific papers on related topics such as mechanisms of ovulation, PCOS, OHSS and ovarian cancer. During the last two decades, Mats Brännström has continued with ovarian research but has also opened up a research line on uterus transplantation, towards a treatment for absolute uterine factor infertility. Brännström is today regarded as the pioneer of uterus transplantation. In 2002 his group demonstrated for the first time ever live births in a uterus transplantation animal (mouse) model. By a systematic, translational approach, including two rodent species, two large domestic species as well as non-human primates, Brännström and his team was able to optimize uterus transplantation towards human trials. In 2013 Brännström and his team conducted the first clinical trial of uterus transplantation, including nine live donor uterus transplantation procedures. Nine women underwent uterus transplantation and the world´s first live birth after this procedure took place in Sweden in September 2014. Totally nine babies were born from this initial uterus transplantation trial. Subsequent clinical trials have involved introduction of robotic-assisted surgery in uterus transplantation. Today almost 90 uterus transplantation procedures have been performed worldwide and with around 50 babies born. Successful transplants have occurred in more than 10 centres in four continents. The Swedish team have been involved in training and surgery at most of the centres. Brännström was a founding member and the first president of the International Society of Uterus Transplantation (ISUTx) and is now the registry chair of the international ISUTX registry, which collects worldwide data on uterus transplantations and outcomes. Professor Brännström is the author of a round 250 research papers and 150 review articles. His articles have been cited more than 12,000 times.

Mark Brincat
MRCS, LRCP, PhD(Lond), FRCOG, FRCPI
Professor Brincat served as Chairman and Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with the Department of Health on the Maltese Islands from 1991-2018.He is currently Professor at the University of Malta Medical School (O&G) and Hon. Clinical Professor at Queen Mary University London (QMUL), from Nov ’17 to present (Medical Education). He is also an Associate Dean at QMUL, Bart’s Medical School (Malta).Professor Brincat has held several posts and has served on several committees including ISGE, EMAS, IMS and ESHRE. His academic work was mostly in Gynaecological Endocrinology. He has had a special interest in Menopause and his PhD (King’s College, University of London) concerned work on the relationship of the Menopause and HRT on connective tissue, particularly on the skin and bone.He has presented keynote lectures and published extensively on the subject of the menopause in a broad range of subjects. He also founded the first Maltese ART (IVF) Unit and has also had a long-standing interest in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

Prof Brincat continues to lecture both undergraduates and postgraduates and is still actively involved in Menopause and Infertility, recently also picking up an interest in the application of gynaecological laser techniques.

Frank Broekmans (1956), MD, PhD, is a gynaecologist and Professor in Reproductive Endocrinology and Surgery at the University Medical Center Utrecht. Recently, he has started to combine his academic career with clinical work in the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at the Dijklander Ziekenhuis in Purmerend. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the VU Medical Center Amsterdam in 1983, became consultant OBGYN in 1990, completed a Fellowship in Reproductive Medicine at the VU Medical Center Amsterdam in 1993, and received his PhD degree in 1995. In October 2010 he was appointed Professor at the University Medical Center in Utrecht.
His scientific career has long been devoted to the field of female reproductive ageing. Special focus has been on the normal ovarian ageing pattern, assessment of actual and future fertility status, genetic backgrounds of the variation in the ovarian ageing process, and the link between vascular and ovarian ageing. At present, he is supervising 4 PhD students.
Recent focus has moved towards the role of the endometrium in reproductive success. The banking of endometrium tissue from several patient groups has allowed to develop a research line where endometrium organoids are utilised to unravel many functional aspects that could lead to understanding and prevention of several reproductive failure conditions.
Within these fields of scientific interest he obtained several grants from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (ZonMW) and the Dutch College for Health Care Insurance.
He has held an Associate Editorship for Human Reproduction between 2005 and 2009, he is the former chairman of the Dutch Flemish Society for Studies on Fertility, he participates in several Advisory boards, is reviewer for Gynaecological Obstetrical Investigation, Fertility Sterility, Human Reproduction, and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, he was a member of the Institutional Review Board UMC Utrecht between 2012 and 2014, he was chairman of the department Board on Ethical issues in Reproductive Medicine between 2012 and 2015, he was the coordinator of the Board of the Special Interest Group Reproductive Endocrinology of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology between 2015-2017, he was chairman of the pillar Reproductive Medicine of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology between 2015-2018 and has published over 286 peer-reviewed scientific papers, contributed 36 book chapters and presented over 146 invited lectures at international meetings.

Dr. Alejandro Chavez-Badiola

Founder of IVF 2.0, a company dedicated to bringing a new generation of technologies to the bench side, with a focus on the intersection of Reproductive Medicine and Artificial intelligence.

Current Projects
• SiD: Use of AI to assist sperm selection for ICSI in real-time
• AI evaluation of oocyte impact on embryo quality (AIR-o)
• ERICA: Augmented Intelligence for embryo selection. Human+AI to improve embryologists’ performance.
Background
• Founder & Scientific Director, New Hope Fertility Center, Mexico (2009)
• Professor of Gynaecology, Universidad de Guadalajara (2008)
• Reproductive Medicine, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, UK (2005-7)
• Highly Skilled Specialist Sponsorship, British Council (2005)
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mexico (2004)
• Medical School, Academic Excellence Honours, Mexico (1999)

Professor Ying Cheong
Position: Professor in Reproductive Medicine; Medical Director, Complete Fertility Centre
Affiliation: University of Southampton; Complete Fertility Centre Southampton
Ying is a Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery and Professor in Reproductive Medicine at the University of Southampton. She founded the Complete Fertility Centre Southampton at the Princess Anne Hospital in 2011. Ying’s research interests centre around understanding the biology of endometrium and endometrial associated pathology (endometriosis and adhesions); and she works closely with collaborators across disciplines in the School of Electronics and Computer Science and Nanoscience within the University of Southampton in the development of nano-therapeutics and medical biosensors. She holds several NIHR and commercial grants and is an experience clinical trialist. Ying is active in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Prof Justin Clark is a Consultant Gynaecologist at the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital and is an Honorary Professor of Gynaecology at the University of Birmingham. He is a recent Past President of the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy. His clinical and research interests are in the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic pain and endoscopic surgery. He has helped pioneer ambulatory gynaecological intervention. He has published widely, holds over £9 million research grants including a grant to run the LAVA Trial: An RCT comparing laparoscopic and abdominal hysterectomy. He is an Editorial Board member of the British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and an Associated Editor on the European Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy Journal; Facts, Views and Vision in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Jacques Cohen is a reproductive biologist, embryologist, laboratory product developer and high complexity laboratory director (HCLD). He is director and founder of the ART Institute of Washington, which runs the joint National Institute of Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center IVF program in Bethesda Maryland (USA). He is product developer and co-founder of IVFqc/Althea Science, which develops software solutions for laboratories and clinics. He was co-founder of Reprogenetics, a PGT service, now continuing as Cooper Genomics. He was a co-founder and product developer of Life-Global/IVF-Online. He has (co-)authored more than 300 publications, several textbooks and 12 patents. He is Emeritus Chief Editor of Reproductive Biomedicine Online. He was one of the founders of Alpha – Scientists in Reproductive Medicine, one of the founders of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society – PGDIS and a founding member of the International IVF Initiative (i3).

Jacques Cohen grew up in Maastricht, The Netherlands and graduated (M.Sc.) in Biology of Reproductive Science in 1978 at Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands). He has a Ph.D. from Erasmus University in Rotterdam (supervisor Prof. Gerard Zeilmaker), in aspects of in vitro fertilization and male factor infertility. His postdoctoral studies (1982-1985) were performed at Cambridge University (UK) and Bourn Hall Clinic (supervisor Prof Robert Edwards). Jacques Cohen has (co-)developed a number of embryological methodologies and devices: blastocyst cryopreservation, assisted fertilization, co-culture, assisted hatching, preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy, ooplasmic donation, single sperm freezing, CODA filtration, Global media, and GPS dishes. He currently serves on Advisory Boards of biotech startups TMRW, Kindbody, DADI (Ro), Orchid Health, IVF 2.0, and Phosphorus.

Ben Cohlen
Experienced Gynecologist with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Currently Gynaecologist and Head of the Women’s and Childrens Center of Isala, Zwolle. Skilled in Clinical Research, Medical Education, Medical Devices, Medical leadership, Medicine, and Fertility. Strong healthcare services professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) AND Registrar Obstetrics and Gynaecology focused in O & G and specialized in Fertility treatment.
Over the years trained his management skills in and outside of Isala to become a medical leader in VBHC, Lean and other strategies to improve healthcare for the patient and his/her family. Was trained with his team in shared decision and Hospitality (by Tanja Schilthuizen). Did many green field sessions to reorganize care, including the patient.
He has been medical trainer post-graduate training in OB/Gyn for more than 10 years.
Organizes two-yearly scientific meetings in Zwolle with the national heads of fertility.
Author of over hundred peer-reviewed publications and book-chapters.
Editor of two international recognised books on Fertility Treatments:
Intra-Uterine Insemination, Evidence Based Guidelines for Daily Practice
Edited By Ben Cohlen, Willem Ombelet
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781841849881
Ovulation Induction, Evidence Based Guidelines for Daily Practice
Edited By Ben J. Cohlen, Evert Van Santbrink, Joop Laven
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781498704076

Tessel Cooijmans , is a novice, enthusiastic researcher at the Maxima MC and recently graduated as a MD. Currently she is participating as a PhD candidate in research projects in benign gynaecology, specifically regarding uterine fibroids, under the supervision of Professor Marlies Bongers. Her current work focuses on the Sonata treatment for uterine fibroids, and its additional value clinically and in terms of cost-effectiveness compared to conventional treatment, a research project in cooperation with the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa).

Odette de Bruin is a medical doctor and PhD student in Obstetrics in the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Her research is mainly about SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy and medication used targeted at the COVID-19 disease, among which maternal SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations.

Jacques Donnez was born in Tournai (Belgium) on 16 July, 1947.
He studied at the Catholic University of Louvain.
He defended his PhD thesis in 1984, entitled “The fallopian tube: normal and pathological
histophysiology”.
He became Full Professor and Head of the Department Gynaecology and Andrology in 1986.
He also founded the Infertility Research Unit of the Catholic University of Louvain in 1986.
He has focused his research activities on three main topics: tubal infertility, endometriosis
and finally, ovarian cryopreservation and transplantation.
He published over 600 original articles in peer-review journals.
Prof. Donnez was the first President of the recently created International Society for Fertility
Preservation (until end of 2010) and has been elected in Februari 2009 at the Royal Belgian
Academy of Medicine.

Prof. Dr. Christian Egarter was appointed as specialist for OB/GYN at the University of Vienna in 1988. From 1991-1993 he was Head of the Department of OB/GYN in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria. Thereafter, he returned to Vienna to become Deputy Head of the Department of Obstetrics. Since 2007 he served as Deputy Head of the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology & Reproductive Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna and became Head of the Department in 2011. In 2012 Prof. Egarter became President of the “Austrian Society for Sterility, Fertility, and Endocrinology” and Vice-president of the “Austrian Family Planning Society”. In 2014 he was appointed as Member of the Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery of the Austrian government. Prof. Egarter published more than 300 papers in national and international journals and the elaborate number of research grants includes the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science and Concerted Actions of the EU Commission.

Dr. M. Max Ezzati is the Medical Director of Fertility Services at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Palo Alto, California. He is double Board-certified in both Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) as well as Obstetrics and Gynecology. He graduated from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2002 following which he completed his basic specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) in London, and Cambridge University Hospitals in Cambridge, UK. In 2007, he moved to the United Stated where he completed his Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Washington Hospital Center- Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, followed by a 3-year fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas. His research interests and publications include topics such as reproductive ageing in women, molecular mechanisms involved in ovarian primordial follicle activation, fallopian tube physiology, uterine fibroids, and endometriosis.

Bart Fauser, MD, PhD, FRCOG, is a Professor Em. of Reproductive Medicine, former Head of the Department for Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology and former Chair of the Division of Woman & Baby at the University of Utrecht and the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.
He is a Fellow ad Eundum of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG), Honorary member of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), executive Board member and scientific director of the International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS), international member of the (US) National Academy of Medicine, Editor in Chief of Reproductive Biomedicine Online (RBMO), Night in the order of the Netherlands Lion, past member of the board of the Dutch Medical Research Counsel (ZonMW), past Editor in Chief of Human reproduction Update, and past Professor and Division Chief at the Erasmus Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
He previously held posts as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, San Diego; visiting professorships at Stanford University School of Medicine (California, USA), Free University (Brussels, Belgium), University of Siena (Italy), University of Southampton (UK), and the University of Adelaide (Australia). He was a past chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) steering committee for infertility guidelines.
His major research interests include the pathophysiology of human ovarian function (including PCOS, and POI), ovarian stimulation, IVF and women’s health (including contraception, menopause and healthy aging). He has published close to 500 peer-reviewed articles (Hirsch factor > 100), is one of the most cited authors in reproductive medicine and his work has been widely covered in the national and international lay press

Professor Rene Frydman,
Current Positions and Rank:
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University Paris XIand Head of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of AntoineBeclereHospital, since 1990 – Director of Research Unit on Reproductive Medecine
Awards of Distinction:
Officer of the French Legion d’Honneur
Areas of Special Interest and Accomplishments:My special areas of interest in Gynecology and Obstetrics include infertility and high- risk pregnancy. My work in infertility led the first baby born in France as a result of in vitro fertilization in 1982, after embryo freezing in 1986, after PGD in 2000, after oocyte cryoperservation 2010.
My other area of interest has been biomedical ethics. My work in this realm led to many invitations to debate the moral issues created by the use of the techniques of artificial procreation. I have had an active participation in the preparation on the law on bioethics.
I have actively worked with the Medecins du Monde and Medecins sans Frontieres.

Peggy Geomini Gynecologist at Maxima Medical Center in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. Special interest in benign gynaecology and minimally invasive surgery (including endometriosis care). In addition to clinical tasks involved in research in the field of heavy menstrual bleeding and diagnostics of adnexal pathology.

Dr. Norbert Gleicher, MD, FACOG, FACS, is the Chief Scientist and Medical Director at the Center for Human Reproduction in New York, NY.
Dr. Gleicher grew up in Vienna, Austria, where he initiated his medical studies at Vienna University Medical School. After preclinical years, he switched to Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine in Israel, where he graduated and completed a year of rotating internship. He then moved to New York City for a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a fellowship in reproductive immunology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. As Chief Resident he was awarded the Dr. Solomon Silver Award in Clinical Medicine, given annually to “that younger member of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center staff who best exemplifies the ability to apply the advance in research to the practice of clinical medicine.”
Upon graduation, Dr. Gleicher was appointed to the medical school faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine as Assistant Professor, in the department as Head of the Division of Reproductive Immunology and given responsibility for all student and resident education in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Two years later he moved to Chicago as Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mount Sinai Hospital and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Immunology/Microbiology at Rush Medical College. He held these positions for 10 years until his resignation in 1990, when he started to concentrate on development of the Center for Human Reproduction (CHR), which he founded in 1981. Since 1990 Dr. Gleicher has held a variety of academic professorial appointments at Chicago Medical School and, after his move back to New York City, at New York University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine. Since 1999 he is President, Medical Director and Chief Scientist of CHR-New York and President of the not-for-profit Foundation for Reproductive Medicine. He also holds an appointment as Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University and Professor (Adj.) at Medical University Vienna.
Dr. Gleicher has published over 400 peer-reviewed scientific papers, hundreds of abstracts and book chapters in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, relating to medical complications in pregnancy and to the immune system in reproduction. He served as founding Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology (AJRI), and for 30 years as founding editor of the Journal of In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer, in 1992 renamed Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics (JARG), now an official organ of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). He in addition served and is serving as editor and/or editorial board member on many other medical journals and edited several major textbooks. In 1991, he was awarded Austria’s highest scientific and cultural award, the Austrian Honor Cross for Science and Art for his scientific achievements. In 2009, Dr. Gleicher was invited to give the prestigious bi-annual Patrick Steptoe Memorial Lecture to the British Fertility Society, in recognition of his contributions to advancements in the in vitro fertilization field.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and of the American College of Surgeons, and, in addition to many other societies and professional organizations, a member of the ASRM and the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).

Alessandra Graziottin, MD
Alessandra Graziottin is currently Director of the Centre of Gynaecology and Medical Sexology at the H. San Raffaele Resnati in Milano, Italy. She is specialised in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, in Oncology and a certified Psychotherapist in Sexual Medicine.
She is Founder and Chair of the Alessandra Graziottin Foundation for the cure and care of pain in women NPO.
She was Consultant Professor at the Advanced Master in Andrology and Sexual Medicine of the University of Firenze, Consultant Professor at the Advanced Master in Clinical Sexology of the University of Pisa, and Professor at the Master Course of Sexual Medicine for Students of Psychology of the University of Venezia and Salesian University (UPS) of Roma.
Prof. Graziottin has published: 24 scientific books (as author, co-author or editor); more than 90 chapters of scientific books, more than 120 refereed papers and more than 300 proceeding contributions and non-refereed articles; 7 lay books and 8 educational booklets for women. Since 1984 she has been regular columnist on women’s health in Italian national newspapers and magazines.
She wrote, with Filippo Murina:
– Clinical management of vulvodynia (Springer Verlag, 2011);
– Vulvar pain from childhood to old age (Springer Verlag, 2017).
As a leading expert and teacher in Gynaecology and Medical Sexology, with special focus on Chronic Pelvic pain, Vulvar pain and associated comorbidities, she has given more than 1700 lectures (more than 90 state of the art lectures) at international and national meetings and courses.
She is currently:
– Regional Contact for Lombardy for the International Society of Dietary Supplements and Phytotherapy (ISDSP);
– member of the Scientific Board for the “Comorbidity and Psychopathology” Area of the Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Motilità dell’Apparato Digerente (GISMAD);
– member of the Core Faculty of the European School of Oncology (ESO);
– member of the permanent International Organizing Committee (IOC) of Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility (COGI);
– coordinator of the Italian Association of Hospital Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (AOGOI) for the Milan Metropolitan Area.
She also served in the Board of:
– the Italian Menopause Society from 1997 until 2001;
– the Italian Menopause Project (PMI) from 1997 to 2007;
– the European Society of Menopause and Andropause (EMAS) from 2000 to 2006;
– the Italian Society of Psychosomatic Gynecology and Obstetrics (SIPGO) from 2002 to 2008;
– the Italian Society of Psychosomatic Gynecology and Obstetrics (SIPGO) from 2008 to 2012, as Vice-President;
– the Italian Society of Gynaecology of the Elderly (SIGITE) from 2003 to 2006;
– the Italian Society of Preventive and Social Paediatrics (SIPPS) from 2008 to 2012;
– the Italian Society of Ginecology and Obstetrics (SIGO), as Coordinator of the Special Interest Area on “Pelvic Pain” (2009-2011);
– the Female Sexual Function Forum, FSFF (2000-2001), as Vice President;
– the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, ISSWSH (2001-2002), as President;
– the International Society for Sexuality and Cancer (ISSC) from 2003 to 2010;
In June 2004 she was awarded the Honorary Membership by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC).

Sergio Haimovich
• PhD in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Cum Laude) Barcelona Autonomous University
• Director of the Gynecology Department. Laniado University Hospital. Netanya, Israel.
• Head of the Hysteroscopy Unit. Gynecology Department at the Del Mar University Hospital. Barcelona, España
• Vice Chair of the AAGL Hysteroscopy SIG
• Director of the International School of Laser in Gynecology. Nadezhda Hospital. Sofia, Bulgaria.
• Co-Chair and co-Founder of the “Global Community of Hysteroscopy”
• Clinical Assistant Professor Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion. Israel
• Clinical Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Republic University of Uruguay

Professor Roger Hart is sub-specialist in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, he is the Medical Director of Fertility Specialists of Western Australia and Professor of Reproductive Medicine, Deputy Head of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Western Australia, and the lead clinician for the public fertility service of Western Australia. He has active research interests in the early life origins of male and female reproductive disorder, polycystic ovary syndrome and all aspects of infertility management and has published over 150 papers in the field of reproductive medicine.

Prof. Liran Hiersch received his MD from Tel Aviv University, Israel. He did a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rabin Medical Center and Lis Hospital for Women, both affiliated to Tel Aviv University, followed by a fellowship in Advanced Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Toronto (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada). He is the head of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine inpatient unit and the High-Risk Pregnancy outpatient clinics at Lis Hospital for Women and an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University. He has published more than 150 original manuscripts, reviews and chapters in books, focusing on the field of pregnancy-complications and maternal-fetal medicine.

Ward Hofhuis
Education
2004 – 2010 Specialist Registrar, Dept. Of Gynaecology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Prof. Dr. M.J. Heineman).
1999 – 2004 Doctoral research, Dept. Of Paediatric Pulmonology, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Prof. Dr. J.C. de Jongste).
Doctoral thesis (PhD), ‘Clinical applications of infant lung function testing’, June 10th, 2004
1992 – 1999 Medical School, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Qualification as a medical doctor: September 29th, 1999

Professional Experience
2010 – today Gynaecologist, with expertise in gynaecological oncology. Franciscus Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Reports and documents written
PhD thesis “Clinical applications of infant lung function testing”, ISBN:9061095646

Other activities
2016 – 2021 Chairman Steering committee Oncology Franciscus Hospital
2014 – 2017 Board member Scientific Committee, Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (NVOG)
2013 – 2017 Secretary of the Board Gynaecological Conferences, Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Gynaecongres NVOG)
2013 – 2016 Chairman Safety committee Franciscus Hospital
2010 – 2016 Board member Steering committee Oncology Franciscus Hospital

Research
Co-founder of ongoing VACCIN-trial:
BMC Cancer 2020 Jun 9;20(1):539. Adjuvant VACcination against HPV in surgical treatment of Cervical Intra-epithelial Neoplasia (VACCIN study) a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Prof. Dr. med. Dr.h.c.mult. Wolfgang Holzgreve, MBA, FACOG, FRCOGWolfgang Holzgreve has double citizenship of Germany and Switzerland, graduated in medicine from the University of Münster Medical School in Germany and in genetics from the University of California in Berkeley.
He became a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology in Germany and did his postdoctoral fellowship in reproductive genetics at the University of California in San Francisco. In 1995 he was appointed as Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. From there he was recruited back to Germany to become Medical Director and CEO of Freiburg Medical Center. In 2010/2011 he has been on a sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Since 2012 he is Medical Director of the University Bonn Medical Center.
Prof. Holzgreve´s main research has been in the area of prenatal diagnosis and therapy, and he was involved with the development of invasive techniques such as chorionic villus sampling and Non-invasive Prenatal Diagnosis from maternal blood. His research resulted in more than 600 original papers, more than 10 books, Editorial Board memberships of 15 journals. His Hirsch index was 70.
He received many awards including the Maternite award, the Liley medal etc, and received seven honorary doctoral degrees. He was President of many professional organizations such as the German Societies of Reproductive Medicine and of Perinatal Medicine, as well President of the Swiss Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Treasurer of the European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (EBCOG) and of the World Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) for six years each.
In 2018 he received the Ordination of First degree (Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) from the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
He has served the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina in various Capacities; and in 2019 was elected into the Executive Committee of the Inter Academy Partnership (IAP).
In 2020 he was reelected as Medical Director and CEO of the Universit Medical Center Bonn for the period of Jan.1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2026.

Işıl Kasapoğlu,MD, was born in 1982 and recieved her medical degree from Ankara University School of Medicine in 2006. After her residency training and following a certification programme in infertility and assited reproduction, she studied ovarian aging at Yale School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences. She has been working as Associate Professor at Uludag University Faculty of Medicine Department of Obs & Gyn, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology , Bursa , Turkey. She is interested in all aspects of clinical IVF and endoscopic surgery and has been a member of the Executive Committee of Turkish Society of Reproductive Medicine (TSRM).

Asma Khalil is a Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine at St George’s Hospital, University of London. She is the Obstetric Lead of the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA). She gained her MD(Res) at the University of London in 2008. She also has a Masters degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an MRC scholarship. She is a subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine. Since 2008, she has maintained busy clinical (Obstetrics, Fetomaternal Medicine), research and teaching roles. Asma is the Lead for the Twin and Multiple Pregnancy service at St George’s Hospital. She also leads the Reproductive Health Research Group at St George’s Hospital.She has published more than 350 peer reviewed papers, and many published review articles and chapters. She was awarded many research prizes, both at national and international meetings. Her research interests include twin pregnancy, fetal growth restriction, hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and infections in pregnancy.She is passionate about innovation. She is the inventor of the HAMPTON, which is an award-winning digital innovation which enables pregnant women to monitor their blood pressure safely at home. She is a National Innovation Accelerator (NIA) Fellow.She is committed to the implementation of clinical guidelines in practice and believes that they could reduce inequalities in care across the NHS. She had a three year Fellowship with NICE and has been a member of the NICE Clinical Standards and Expert Advisor to the NICE Centre for Clinical guidelines.

She is an Editor for the Ultrasound on obstetrics and Gynecology Journal. She is an International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) Trustee and is an Ambassador to North Africa and the Middle East. She works closely with the Twins trust Charity and together has set up the world-first Twins Trust Centre for Research and Clinical Excellence at St George’s Hospital.

Dorit Kieslinger , MSc., was born in Austria and studied Biology in Austria and The Netherlands. Dorit works as a clinical embryologist and PhD candidate at Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands. Her research interests include time-lapse monitoring, microfluidic embryo culture and metabolomic profiling.

Prof. dr. C.B. (Nils) Lambalk, MD, PhD Professor Lambalk is a gynaecologist/fertility specialist and works as professor of Reproductive Medicine and Scientific Director of de division of Reproductive Medicine at the department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology of the Amsterdam University Medical Centres, VU University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and guest professor in the Gynaeco-Urology/Reproductive Medicine, University of Gent, Belgium.
His scientific interests are: neuroendocrinology of reproduction (including GnRH-analogues), physiology of natural twinning, reproductive aging, fertility preservation ,PCOS, embryo quality assessment and implantation.
He has published over 300 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the scientific board of several international and national organizations.
Per January 2019 he is Editor in Chief of Human Reproduction.

Professor Joop S.E. Laven is professor in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility based at Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam in the Netherlands and was initially trained at the University of Utrecht in the same country. After Medical school he completed his Ph.D. thesis on clinical and experimental aspects of varicocele at Utrecht University in 1991. From 1991 till 1997 he continued his training at the University Medical Center St. Radboud in Nijmegen. In 1997 he became board certified in OBGYN (FRCOG) and moved to the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. In 2000 he became certified subspecialist Reproductive Medicine. He is a member of ESHRE, ASRM, the Endocrine Society, the Society of Gynecological Investigation (SGI) and the Royal Dutch College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is the past president of the Dutch Society of Reproductive Medicine. He is the president-elect of AE-PCOS society
For many years he had a particular interest in the 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. During the last decade the research focussed on more fundamental effects that PCOS may have on quality of life and long-term health risks as well as the genetic basis of the disease. More recently he was also involved in Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) exploring the genetic basis of PCOS, premature ovarian insufficiency, menarche and menopause.
He has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers and several reviews as well as chapters in books, and has delivered over 400 lectures to international scientific audiences. He is a past member of the editorial board of Human Reproduction Update, Human Reproduction and the Journal of Endocrine Society. He is a visiting professor at the University of Shandong, Shandong, China and the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is also a member of the international guideline groups for PCOS, POI and unexplained infertility within the Center of Research Excellence (WHIRL) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Paul Leeson is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford and a Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. His research group has pioneered the application of computational modelling and artificial intelligence to imaging data, collected within clinical studies and randomised trials, to understand what drives progression of cardiovascular disease in young people. The work has generated novel insights ranging from an understanding of how the cardiovascular system in both the mother and child is impacted by pregnancy complications, such as preeclampsia and preterm birth, through to methods for automated diagnostics in echocardiography, which are now used in hospitals in the US and Europe. Their most recent work has focused on the post-partum period of a hypertensive pregnancy and has identified the puerperium as a critical window of cardiovascular remodelling for the mother, during which clinical management can have long term implications for their cardiovascular health. He sits on the NIHR Invention for Innovation and Fellowship funding panels as well as the Imaging Advisory Board of UK Biobank. He is a member of the NHS National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Cardiovascular Disease prevention guideline committee and has had leadership roles in the European Association of Preventive Cardiology and British and Irish Hypertension Society.

Angela Maas, PhD is a clinical cardiologist since more than 30 years and has developed a main interest in heart disease in women over the past decades. She established the first outpatient clinic for women in the Netherlands in 2003. Her main interests are the early identification of women at increased CV risk and symptom evaluation in women at middle-age. She has received many awards such as by the Dutch Society of female physicians (2010), the Radboud University (2014) and was knighted by the King in 2017. She is currently one of the most influential female doctors in Dutch healthcare and was the 2020/21 Women’s representative of the Dutch Government to the United Nations. From May 2022 onwards she focusses on research and advisory tasks only.

Jacques Maas is gynaecologist and subspecialist in reproductive medicine. He is a member of the expertise center endometriosis of the department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maastricht University Medical Center. Other aspects of his clinical work are endoscopic surgery, benign gynecology, psychosomatics and sexual medicine. He is ambassador of the World Endometriosis Society and founder and past-president of the dutch SIG Endometriosis. He was a working group member of the recently published ESHRE guideline Endometriosis. Topics of interest in endometriosis research are mainly related to patient centeredness. He is main applicant of the SOMA trial: Surgical or Medical treatment of Endometrioma.

Nick Macklon is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Copenhagen and Medical Director of London Womens Clinic. His previous appointments include Professorships and Departmental Chair in Utrecht and in Southampton. He currently holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Adelaide and the University of Kent.
His main research interests relate to human implantation, endometrial function and periconceptional medicine. He is a well known international speaker and his external roles include associate editorships of leading journals in the field and membership of the ESHRE Executive Committee.

Dr. Sebastiaan Mastenbroek is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and one of the Senior Clinical Embryologists of the Center for Reproductive Medicine of the Amsterdam UMC. An important focus of his research has been Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS / PGT-A). Publication of his RCT on PGS in the New England Journal of Medicine started a fiercely debated controversy on the use of PGS as it showed that the technique actually lowered pregnancy rates after IVF instead of increasing them. He is an associate editor of Human Reproduction Open, editor of the Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility Group, chair of the Science Committee of the Dutch Society for Clinical Embryology, board member of the special interest group ART of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, board member of the SAF foundation, and board member of the Amsterdam Reproduction and Development Research Institute.

Micheline Misrahi
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University Paris-Saclay
Molecular Genetics of Reproductive and Metabolic diseases
Bicetre Hospital, France
Research Interests: Reproductive Endocrinology. Gonadotropins and their receptors. Progesterone receptor. Thyrotropin receptor. Reproductive genetics. Genetics of male and female infertility. Primary ovarian insufficiency. Disorders of puberty. Genetic diseases of G protein coupled receptors

Ben (Willem) Mol (MD PhD FRANZCOG) is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University. He is focused on the organisation of multi-centric evaluative research in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Fertility. The research is focused mainly upon everyday practices. Born and trained in the Netherlands, Ben was instrumental in setting up a nationwide research consortium in women’s health that produced many landmark studies.
Ben came to Australia in 2014 and started at Monash in 2018. Since his arrival, Ben holds continuous NHMRC funding, including a prestigious investigator grant. During his time in Australia, he developed extensive relations with Asian universities. Ben has mentored >100 PhD students and published >1200 papers, many in high impact journals. A publication in Nature acknowledged Ben as one the most proliferative medical scientists. His professional adage is ‘A day without randomisation is a day without progress.’

Prof. Sezcan Mumusoglu , MD is an Associate Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. He completed both his residency and clinical fellowship in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the same university. He took the “Introduction to Clinical Research Training (ICRT)” program at Harvard Medical School and completed the program in May 2016. He studied with Professor Aaron Hsueh at the Stanford University School of Medicine as a Visiting Scholar in between 2018 – 2019 and focused on pathophysiology and genetics of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). He has been teaching phase 4 students, interns, and residents at Hacettepe University School of Medicine. Dr. Mumusoglu has produced more than 40 publications in peer reviewed journals. Since 2020 he has been serving as an Associated Editor for Human Reproduction and also a reviewer for 10 journals including Hum Reprod, Fertil Steril, and RBMonline. His research interests include reproductive endocrinology, ovarian reserve markers, all aspect of clinical IVF, PCOS, and POI.

Annemiek Nap is a professor in Reproductive Medicine and head of the department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She has a special interest in endometriosis. Her research focuses on decreasing the diagnostic delay in endometriosis, and on treatment of endometriosis related pain.
She is head of the Division Reproductive Medicine of the Dutch Society for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, and member of the executive Board of the World Endometriosis Society.

Scott Nelson is the Muirhead Chair in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow. Scott’s additional roles include Scientific Director of The Fertility Partnership, Medical Director of Access Fertility and visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. His research covers use of biomarkers to individualise care and epidemiology including e-health records and data linkage.

Inês Nunes , MD, PhD, is a Specialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Intrapartum Care, at the Centro Materno-Infantil do Norte (CMIN) – Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUPorto), Portugal. She is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics at ICBAS – School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and a researcher in the area of intrapartum fetal monitoring and obstetric simulation at CINTESIS – Center for Research in Health Technologies and Services, at the University of Porto, Portugal. With an H-index of 7, she has published 20 papers in international Medline-indexed journals, has collaborated in national and international books, and has given more than 70 lectures at national and international scientific meetings. She is currently a member of the Special Interest Group on Intrapartum Care, at the European Association of Perinatal Medicine (EAPM) and is an Associate Member of the Committee on Childbirth and PPH at the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). She recently coordinated the European Guideline on Perinatal Care – “Oxytocin for induction and augmentation of labor”.

Professor Guid Oei, MD, PhD ,
Obstetrician Gynecologist at Máxima Medical Center and head of the fundamental perinatal research group at Eindhoven University of Technology.
He is co-initiator of the Perinatal Life Support project with the aim to develop a liquid filled incubator for extremely premature infants.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Johannes Ott , born in September 1980 in Vienna, Austria, currently is the deputy head of the Clinical Division of Gynecologic Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles with a main focus on polycystic ovary syndrome, fertility surgery, recurrent miscarriage, artificial reproduction, thyroid function and autoimmune thyroiditis.

Martijn Oudijk is Professor of Obstetrics with special focus on prevention and treatment of preterm birth at the Amsterdam UMC.
He is the current chairman of the Fetal-Maternal Medicine board of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Fetal-Maternal-Medicine board.

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Present position
Consultant Gynecologist, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
Professor of Practice, Imperial College London
Guest Professor, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University.

Summary CV
As director of the Menopause & PMS Centres at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals, Nick leads a busy clinical and research team which publishes widely, presents at scientific meetings and trains health professionals at all levels.

He set up his Gynaecological Endocrinology (Gynae Endo) Research Unit within the Women’s Health Research Centre of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He also runs a research programme at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (C & W). He and his team of research fellows and research nurses run an active research programme consisting of translational, clinical and pharmaceutically sponsored research in menopause, premature ovarian insufficiency (POI), premenstrual syndrome, androgens and contraception.

Nick has authored nearly 200 peer reviewed publications with more than 7000 citations to date and has a Google Scholar h index of 41. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences, as an invited key note and plenary speaker.

Through his work with a number of societies, councils and women’s groups he campaigns actively for women’s health issues both nationally and internationally. His affiliations include:

Board Member and President Elect, International Menopause Society,
Past Chairman of The British Menopause Society (BMS),
Medical Advisory Council Member, BMS
Chairman of The National Association for Premenstrual Syndromes,
Clinical Advisory Board Member, International Association for Premenstrual Disorders,
Patron of Daisy Network
Past Honorary Director of Conferences, RCOG,
Past President and Council member, Royal Society of Medicine (O & G Division).