Geeta Nargund Explained

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

Previous posts

Honours and awards

Publications

References

  1. https://www.standard.co.uk/business/entrepreneurs-the-mother-and-son-delivering-cutprice-ivf-a3788616.html News.com Australia website, article dated June 1, 2015
  2. https://www.standard.co.uk/business/entrepreneurs-the-mother-and-son-delivering-cutprice-ivf-a3788616.html Evening Standard website, article by Alex Lawson dated March 13, 2018
  3. https://www.createfertility.co.uk/about/meet-our-team/members/professor-geeta-nargund CREATE Fertility website, retrieved 2023-08-28
  4. Web site: Mrs Geeta Nargund - St George's Healthcare clinicians . 2016-04-27 . www.stgeorges.nhs.uk.
  5. Nargund. G.. Waterstone. J.. Bland. J.. Philips. Z.. Parsons. J.. Campbell. S.. 2001-02-01. Cumulative conception and live birth rates in natural (unstimulated) IVF cycles. Human Reproduction (Oxford, England). 16. 2. 259–262. 0268-1161. 11157816. 10.1093/humrep/16.2.259. free.
  6. Robert Edwards Prize 2014: First births with a simplified culture system for clinical IVF and embryo transfer
  7. Web site: Health Education Research (HER) Trust. www.createhealthfoundation.org. 2017-08-25.
  8. Web site: The doctor warning 15-year-olds about their declining fertility. Weale. Sally. 2016-05-17. the Guardian. 2016-06-10.
  9. Web site: Souad Massi, What do we tell our young people about fertility?, Women and Buddhism, Woman's Hour - BBC Radio 4. BBC. 2016-04-18.
  10. Web site: How much time is really left on your biological clock?. https://web.archive.org/web/20151124174727/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/health/how-much-time-is-really-left-on-your-biological-clock/. dead. 2015-11-24. The Telegraph. 2016-04-18.
  11. Web site: Thinking of using IVF? Try this first. The Independent. en-GB. 2016-04-18. 2010-02-09.
  12. News: The 'choices' facing women who want children. Letters. 2015-06-03. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077. 2016-04-18.
  13. News: 'Revolution' in egg freezing science - The Times. The Times. en-GB. 2016-04-18. 2015-09-16.
  14. News: IVF costs to NHS 'must be capped', says fertility expert. 2016-04-18. 2015-10-29.
  15. Web site: Gamechangers: 'Stressful and dangerous' conventional IVF should be abandoned, says Dr Geeta Nargund. International Business Times UK. 2016-04-18. 2015-02-05.
  16. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17877615.abc-ivf-opens-low-cost-clinic-oxfordshire/ Oxford Mail website, article dated September 3, 2019
  17. Web site: Meet our team: Professor Geeta Nargund . 15 March 2024 . Create Fertility.
  18. Web site: Trustees . 2023-10-02 . Create Health Foundation . en-GB.
  19. Web site: Welcome to The Walking Egg The Walking Egg . 2023-10-02 . thewalkingegg.com.
  20. Web site: The Board Ginsburg Women's Health Board . 2023-10-02 . www.ginsburgwomenshealthboard.org.
  21. Web site: Our trustees . 2023-10-02 . British Red Cross . en.
  22. Web site: ISMAAR - The Board . 2023-10-02 . ismaar.org.
  23. Web site: Meet our Authority members HFEA . 2023-10-02 . www.hfea.gov.uk.
  24. Web site: Mrs Geeta Nargund . 2023-10-02 . St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . en-GB.
  25. https://gg2leadershipawards.co.uk/winners/winners-2023/ GG2 website, list of 2023 winners
  26. Web site: BAPIO | British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin.
  27. Web site: Bellamy. Alison. Our Top 10 Most Influential Asian Women in Britain. Asian Sunday. 29 February 2016 .
  28. News: Bray. Paul. A creative approach to IVF treatment - UK STEM Awards 2015. The Telegraph. 2016-08-13.
  29. Web site: Professor is honoured for developing safer IVF treatment. South London Press. 2016-04-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20160507031217/http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/article.cfm?id=115021&headline=Professor%20is%20honoured%20for%20developing%20safer%20IVF%20treatment&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2015. 2016-05-07. dead.
  30. Web site: AWA 2014: The winners Page 1 - Real Business. realbusiness.co.uk. 2016-04-18. 2014-06-05. 22 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160422125553/http://realbusiness.co.uk/article/26873-awa-2014-the-winners. dead.
  31. Web site: red women. www.redonline.co.uk. 2016-04-18.

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