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Professor Zarko Alfirevic
Professor in Fetal and Maternal Medicine at the University of Liverpool and Clinical Director for
Maternity Services at the Liverpool Women's Hospital, the largest stand-alone Maternity Unit in
Europe with 8,000 deliveries per annum.
His longstanding academic interest is in 'Evidence Based Medicine' and research related to preterm
labour, labour induction and high risk obstetrics. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed
publications and book chapters with over 50 invitations to lecture at major national and international
conferences. He is the joint Co-ordinating Editor for the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group,
one of the Editors of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Vice Chair of the Clinical
Standards Committee of the International Society for Ultrasound In Obstetrics and Gynecology. |
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Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
Professor and Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St. George’s Hospital, University of London
and President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Previously Secretary General (three years) and Treasurer (six years) of the International Federation
of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (FIGO).
Author of 234 indexed publications, 24 books and 164 book chapters.
Editor-in-Chief of Best Practice and Research in Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology.
Honorary Fellow of the American, Sri Lankan, South African, Pakistan and Indian Colleges of O&G
and Honorary member of the Canadian, Malaysian, German and South African Societies |
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Dr Alain Brecx
Vice President and Director of Clinical Research and Development (R&D) and Medical Affairs,
Europe, Japan, Africa and Middle-East (JAME) for GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (GSK Bio)
After obtaining his MD at the University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1983, Dr Brecx went on to obtain a
degree in Statistics and Pharmacology from the University of Paris in 1986. As a clinical research
physician at St Luc University Hospital, Belgium, he managed the Phase III programme of an anticancer
drug. A move into pharmaceutical marketing led to a management degree from the IAG
University of Louvain in 1993 while working as the International Product Manager for the UCB
Pharmaceutical Sector.
Dr Brecx has 12 years' experience in product/project management and clinical development for
GSK Bio. As Associate Director of Worldwide Strategic Marketing from 1998 to 2001, Dr Brecx
increased the infant vaccines franchise to 35% of total GSK Biologicals sales. He became Director
of GSK's paediatric business programme from 2001 to 2003, managing the late development (from
end of the Phase II to launch) of three vaccines. In 2005 he became Director of R&D, Medical Affairs
and Commercial Strategy for the Central and Eastern Europe vaccine business and in 2006,
Director of Clinical R&D and Medical Affairs in Africa, Middle-East, Russia and Eurasia. |
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Professor Linda Cardozo
Professor of Urogynaecology and Consultant Gynaecologist at King's College Hospital, London.
She trained at Liverpool University Medical School and qualified MBChB in 1974. Thereafter she
developed a special interest in urinary incontinence while working at St George's Hospital under the
aegis of Professor Stuart Stanton, obtaining an MD in 1979 and her MRCOG in 1980.
Following her appointment as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in 1985 she continued
to develop her interest in all aspects of urogynaecology including the influence of hormones on the
lower urinary tract, conservative and surgical treatment of stress incontinence, the pathophysiology
and pharmacological treatment of detrusor overactivity and the management of
urogenital prolapse.
Professor Cardozo now heads a busy and productive tertiary referral urogynaecology department
at King's College Hospital. She has a large clinical workload, dealing with complex
urogynaecological problems in a supra-regional tertiary referral unit, teaching medical students,
training junior doctors and undertaking clinical research. Her publications include more than 300
peer reviewed papers and 17 books.
Professor Cardozo is President of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Women's
Health. She is also a Past President of the International Urogynaecological Association, Past
President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine. She was
the founding Chairman of the British Society of Urogynaecology, a Past Chairman of the British
Menopause Society and of the Education Committee of International Continence Society. She is
currently Vice Chairman of the World Health Organisation International Consultation on
Incontinence. |
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Professor Jacques DonnezR
1965-1972 Medical School Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) (Maxima cum Laude)
1978-1980 Academic Hospital St. Luc, Department of Gynaecology
(Prof. Ferin), Catholic University of Louvain
1986-present Head of Department
Department of Gynaecology, Catholic University of Louvain
Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc.
1992-present Full Professor and Chairman, Catholic University of Louvain
Nomination
Doctor Honoris Causa, Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Canton, China. (2000)
Awards
- Doctor « Honoris Causa », University de Guangzhou (Canton) (China) (2002)
- Atlee Professor, 1995 (Halifax, Canada)
- Award for the outstanding contribution to the field of Human Reproduction
(10h World congress on Human Reproduction (1999, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil)
- Award of excellence in Endoscopy (ESGE) (Paris, France, 2000)
- I.S. Puvan Memorial Awards, Penang (2005)
Founding Member :
International Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy
European Society of Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
European Association of Gynaecological Laser Endoscopy
European Certificate of Endoscopy
European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
Sociedad Argentina de Endometriosis
World Endometriosis Society
International Society for Fertility Preservation (2007) |
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Dr Stephen Lindow
Qualified in Medicine from Sheffield University. He did house officer and SHO posts in
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, the mine medical service and Edendale Hospital. Following post graduate
training in O&G in Cape Town he qualified M.Med (O&G), MRCOG and FCOG(SA). He
completed an MD on work undertaken at UCT, with the Reproductive Medicine Unit, on oxytocin
secretion.
After almost 6 years as a consultant in Cape Town he joined Hull Royal Infirmary and helped set
up the Hull-York Medical School which recently has its first graduates. He is widely published
and is recognized as an outstanding tutor and teacher. Current research interests include work
on fetal hair analysis, electrical impedance, domestic violence and drug use. He has a number
of international collaborators and is Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health
Sciences at the University of Cape Town. |
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Dr Claire McLintock
Graduated from Edinburgh University Medical School in 1989. In 1990 she moved to Auckland,
New Zealand where she completed post-graduate training as a clinical and laboratory
haematologist. Her main areas of interest include thrombosis and haemostasis, in particular relating
to pregnancy. She later developed an interest in obstetric medicine and haematology, including
pathological processes in placentation leading to adverse pregnancy outcome.
She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland
and an Obstetric Physician for National Women's Health, Auckland City Hospital. She runs a private
haematology and obstetric medicine practice under the name of Redhealth.
She is President of the Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand, member of the
council of Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and co-chair for the International
Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis Scientific Subcommittee on Women's Health Issues in
Thrombosis and Haemostasis.
Claire is married to New Zealand contemporary artist, John Reynolds and they have two daughters,
Hart, aged 12 and Vita, aged 9.
She is assistant editor for the Systematic Review section of the International Society of Obstetric |
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Lord Naren Patel
As an obstetrician of international standing, Lord Patel specialises in the care of mothers in high
risk pregnancy.
Born in Tanzania, he travelled to the United Kingdom to study A Levels and graduated in
medicine at the University of St Andrews in 1964. Since qualifying he has continued to work in
Scotland and is currently Honorary Professor and Consultant at the University of Dundee,
Ninewells Hospital Dundee.
Lord Patel has published widely in the field of his academic and clinical interest. His many
research papers have made a significant contribution to the area of premature labour, fetal
growth retardation and obstetric epidemiology. His current interests are in health quality and
standards of clinical care.
He is Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and has been Vice-
President and President of the College. He is also Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Honorary Fellow of the College of Surgeons of
England and Edinburgh.
Lord Patel has also contributed to the NHS by leading several advisory groups. He is currently
Chairman of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland and Genetic Advisory Committee of the
Medical research Council.
He is a member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Board and is Vice-President of FIGO, the
International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics which works to raise the standard of
practice in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Lord Patel received a Knighthood in the Birthday Honors List in 1997 and was elevated to the
Peerage in the New Years Honours List in 1999. He is a member of the Science and
Technology Committee of the House of Lords and is a patron of several charities. |
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 | Professor Margaret Stanley
Professor of Epithelial Biology, Department of Pathology University of Cambridge. She attended
the Universities of London, Bristol and Adelaide. She was made a Fellow of the Academy of
Medical Sciences in 2005.
She has served on several research council committees and was a member of the Biology and
Biotechnology Science Research Council from 2000-2003. She is currently a member of the
Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee (SEAC) that advises the UK government on
prion diseases and in 2004 was awarded the OBE for services to Virology.
Her research interests concern the biology of cervical epithelium and how and why cancer of the
cervix develops; her current research focuses on mechanisms of host defence and the
development of vaccines and immunotherapies against human papillomaviruses, the cause of
cervix cancer. She has published extensively in peer reviewed journals (162 papers) and in the
past 5 years has given more than 90 keynote or plenary presentations at national and
international meetings on these topics. She is at present, on the Editorial Board of Sexually
Transmitted Infections and Reviews in Medical Nirology and is a member of the Council of the
International Papillomavirus Society. |
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 | Dr Paul Francois Armand Van Look
Dr Paul Van Look was, until end September 2008, the Director of the Department of Reproductive
Health and Research at the World Health Organization. He holds a medical degree from the
University of Ghent (Belgium), a Ph.D. in reproductive endocrinology from the University of
Edinburgh (Scotland) and is a qualified obstetrician/gynaecologist after training at, among others,
the University of Leiden (the Netherlands).
Dr Van Look has traveled extensively in developing countries and has been an adviser to
governments on a wide range of sexual and reproductive health issues. He has been an invited
speaker at many international meetings and has authored or co-authored numerous articles,
review papers and book chapters in the areas of animal and human reproductive endocrinology,
infertility and medically assisted conception, and fertility regulation.
He is a member of several
professional organisations in the fields of endocrinology and obstetrics and gynaecology and was
made an Honorary Consultant of China's State Family Planning Commission, an Honorary Life
Member of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction of Fertility, an Honorary Member of the
Hungarian Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, a Fellow (ad eundem) of the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK), and an Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Institute of
Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China. In 2000, he was awarded the Ferenc Szontágh
Memorial Medal by the Hungarian Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and, in 2005, he received
the degree of doctor honoris causa of the University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary. He has been
selected by the Society of Family Planning to receive the 2008 Allan Rosenfield Award for Lifetime
Contributions to International Family Planning and will be honoured in 2009 by the International
Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics with the FIGO Distinguished Service Award.
Dr Van Look is an Associate Editor of Contraception and a member of the Advisory Editorial Board
of Reproductive Health Matters. He represented the World Health Organization as adviser to
several international bodies, including the Board of Directors of the Concept Foundation and the
International Medical Advisory Panel of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
He recently joined the Board of ICON, the IPPF-owned subsidiary which procures and distributes
reproductive health commodities to IPPF affiliates. |
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 | Professor Peter von Theobald
Born - 24 September 1957 in Munich (West Germany). Has lived in France since 1964. German
nationality until 1986, then obtained French nationality Primary and Secondary school in the
Paris region (78 Bougival / 91 Brunoy). Baccalauréat C with mention obtained in 1975.
Studied medicine at the Créteil Faculty of Medicine (Paris XII) from 1977. Medical Doctorat
obtained in 1987 (Thesis: « High risk malignant trophoblastic disease»)
Hospital Practitioner at the University Hospital of Caen since 1987 .
Professor at University of Medicine of Caen since 1998.
University Diplomas include:
Specialist in obstetric gynaecology – 1989
University diploma for ultra-sound (Strasbourg 1990)
Master of Sciences (Caen 1993)
Lecturer at the Caen Faculty of Medicine since1992
Advanced Studies Diploma in reproductive biology (Paris VI 1994)
University Professor national examination (05.05.98)
Other positions include:
Judiciary expert to the Caen appeal courts since 1993.
Authorisation to manage medically assisted conception activities and the
transfer of embryos (06.05.1996)
Member of the board of the Société Française d'Endoscopie Gynécologique
Member of the board of the European Society for Gynecologic Endoscopy
Member of the IUGA
Registered with the Conseil de l'Ordre des Médecins du Calvados n° 14/2568
Registered with the General Medicine Council of the UK |
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 | Professor Michelle P Warren
Earned her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. She is board-certified in
internal medicine, and endocrinology trained in reproductive endocrinology. She is Professor of
Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine and is the Wyeth endowed Professor of Women’s Health
at Columbia University Medical Centre.
Dr Warren founded in 1997 the Centre for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders and Women’s Health at
Columbia University Medical Centre and is presently its medical director. The Centre provides
clinical care for women as well as educational initiatives for health professionals and the public,
conducts clinical research and clinical trials.
A pioneer in the effects of eating disorders and athletics
on the menstrual cycle, Dr. Warren was the first to identify skeletal problems, including scoliosis and
stress fractures that occur in young women as a result of menstrual irregularities. Over a lifetime of
practice focusing on women's health, she has written over 200 articles and textbook chapters,
lectures and teaches extensively on menopause, oral contraceptives, anorexia nervosa, menstrual
irregularities, amenorrhea in athletes, and osteoporosis. She has published a book on sports and
hormones. She has served on editorial boards and her research has been funded by the National
Institutes of Health. She has been twice named one of New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors in New
York City”, “ Top Doctor in New York City Metro Area” by the Castle Connolly Guide since 1999, and
“Best Doctor in America” since 2004.
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