Geeta Nargund (MBBS FRCOG London) is a professor and medical doctor in the field of natural and mild IVF and Advanced Technology in Reproductive Medicine.

Education and early career

Nargund was born in 1960.[1] Nargund studied MBBS at Karnatak Medical College (now Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences) Hubli, India and at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London.

Medical career

Nargund is the medical director and one of the founders of CREATE Fertility with Stuart Campbell.[2][3] Nargund is also a senior consultant gynaecologist and lead consultant for reproductive medicine services at St George's Hospital.[4]

Nargund has been an honorary professor of women's health at the University of Bolton, UK and guest professor at Hasselt University Medical Faculty, Belgium. She is an accredited trainer for infertility and gynaecological ultrasound modules at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) London and the British Fertility Society (BFS).

Nargund implements the use of follicular Doppler in assessing egg quality in humans. She has also published the first scientific paper on 'Cumulative conception and live birth rates in natural (unstimulated) IVF cycles'.[5] As co-author, she won the 'Robert Edwards Prize'[6] for best paper of the year 2014 for a paper on the innovative 'Simplified Culture System', which allows IVF to be performed without a conventional laboratory.

Nargund is also the Founder and Trustee of Create Health Foundation.[7]

She sits on the medical advisory panel for Chana, a charity supporting fertility in the British Jewish community. She is passionate about prevention of infertility, and protecting women’s health and safety during assisted conception treatment and has pioneered UK's first fertility education initiative in secondary schools.[8]

She was a member of the Steering Committee of the ESHRE Task Force and a member of the group in terminology for the World Health Organisation assisted reproductive technology (ART).

Media career

In the press, Nargund is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and has appeared on Woman's Hour[9] on BBC Radio 4. She has also published commentaries in The Daily Telegraph,[10] The Independent,[11] The Guardian,[12] The Times,[13] BBC,[14] The Sun, ITV, Cosmopolitan, and the International Business Times UK.[15] She is an associate member of the Guild of Health Writers UK and is Co-Editor-in-Chief for the European scientific journal Facts, Views and Vision in ObGyn. She is on the international editorial board of the Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences.

Family

Nargund’s husband Vinod Nargund was a consultant urological surgeon at the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust until his retirement. He works as a part-time consultant andrologist at CREATE Fertility, He has successfully led the andrology service for CREATE Fertility for over 10 years.

Her son Praful is Co-Founder and of abc IVF [16] and was previously the CEO of CREATE Fertility and abc IVF.

Current posts

  • Medical Director, CREATE Health [17]
  • Founder and Trustee, CREATE Health Foundation [18]
  • Director, Walking Egg Foundation [19]
  • Co-Founder, Ginsburg Women's Health Board [20]
  • Vice Chair and Board Member, British Red Cross [21]
  • President, International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction (ISMAAR) [22]
  • Authority Member, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [23]
  • Senior NHS Consultant and Lead Consultant for Reproductive Medicine, St George's Hospital NHS Trust [24]

Previous posts

  • Vice president for London for British Red Cross

Honours and awards

  • 2023 GG2 Leadership and Diversity Inspire Award[25]
  • 2017 Special Award - Doctor of the Year - British Association for Physicians of Indian Origin[26]
  • 2016 Top ten most influential Asian women in Britain - Asian Sunday Newspaper[27]
  • 2015 Daily Telegraph UK STEM Awards Hero[28]
  • 2015 Winner at annual Inspiration Awards for Women[29]
  • 2014 Winner of RBS Chairman’s Award for most outstanding candidate at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2014 for her work in advancing safer, more accessible fertility treatments in the UK and across the world[30]
  • 2013 Winner of Red Magazines Hot Women Award for charity work[31]

Publications

  • Development of in vitro maturation for human oocytes: natural and mild approaches to clinical infertility treatment, 2017
  • Changes in practice make analysis of historical databases irrelevant for comparison between Natural and Stimulated IVF, 2017

References

  1. ↑ News.com Australia website, article dated June 1, 2015
  2. ↑ Evening Standard website, article by Alex Lawson dated March 13, 2018
  3. ↑ CREATE Fertility website, retrieved 2023-08-28
  4. ↑ "Mrs Geeta Nargund - St George's Healthcare clinicians". www.stgeorges.nhs.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Nargund, G.; Waterstone, J.; Bland, J.; Philips, Z.; Parsons, J.; Campbell, S. (1 February 2001). "Cumulative conception and live birth rates in natural (unstimulated) IVF cycles". Human Reproduction (Oxford, England). 16 (2): 259–262. doi:10.1093/humrep/16.2.259. ISSN 0268-1161. PMID 11157816.
  6. ↑ Robert Edwards Prize 2014: First births with a simplified culture system for clinical IVF and embryo transfer
  7. ↑ "Health Education Research (HER) Trust". www.createhealthfoundation.org. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  8. ↑ Weale, Sally (17 May 2016). "The doctor warning 15-year-olds about their declining fertility". the Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  9. ↑ "Souad Massi, What do we tell our young people about fertility?, Women and Buddhism, Woman's Hour - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "How much time is really left on your biological clock?". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "Thinking of using IVF? Try this first". The Independent. 9 February 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  12. ↑ Letters (3 June 2015). "The 'choices' facing women who want children". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  13. ↑ "'Revolution' in egg freezing science - The Times". The Times. 16 September 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  14. ↑ "IVF costs to NHS 'must be capped', says fertility expert". 29 October 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  15. ↑ "Gamechangers: 'Stressful and dangerous' conventional IVF should be abandoned, says Dr Geeta Nargund". International Business Times UK. 5 February 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  16. ↑ Oxford Mail website, article dated September 3, 2019
  17. ↑ https://www.createfertility.co.uk/about/meet-our-team/members/professor-geeta-nargund. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ↑ "Trustees". Create Health Foundation. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  19. ↑ "Welcome to The Walking Egg | The Walking Egg". thewalkingegg.com. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  20. ↑ "The Board | Ginsburg Women's Health Board". www.ginsburgwomenshealthboard.org. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  21. ↑ "Our trustees". British Red Cross. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  22. ↑ "ISMAAR - The Board". ismaar.org. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  23. ↑ "Meet our Authority members | HFEA". www.hfea.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  24. ↑ "Mrs Geeta Nargund". St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  25. ↑ GG2 website, list of 2023 winners
  26. ↑ "BAPIO | British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin".
  27. ↑ Bellamy, Alison (29 February 2016). "Our Top 10 Most Influential Asian Women in Britain". Asian Sunday.
  28. ↑ Bray, Paul (13 August 2016). "A creative approach to IVF treatment - UK STEM Awards 2015". The Telegraph.
  29. ↑ "Professor is honoured for developing safer IVF treatment". South London Press. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  30. ↑ "AWA 2014: The winners | Page 1 - Real Business". realbusiness.co.uk. 5 June 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  31. ↑ "red women". www.redonline.co.uk. Retrieved 18 April 2016.

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