Geeta Nargund
Geeta Nargund (MBBS FRCOG London) is a visiting professor, medical doctor, trainer, health writer, commentator, and pioneer in the field of natural and mild IVF and Advanced Technology in Reproductive Medicine. Education and early career. Nargund studied medicine at Karnataka 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 of CREATE Fertility and a visiting professor at Hasselt University Medical Faculty (working at Genk University Hospital), Belgium, at National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, and SDM Medical  College in India. 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). Additionally, she is senior consultant gynaecologist and lead consultant for reproductive medicine services at St George's Hospital. She has pioneered 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'. As co-author, she won the 'Robert Edwards Prize' 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 the president of the International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction (ISMAAR), and was a member of the Steering Committee of the ESHRE Task Force on infertility in developing countries, holding the position of Chair of ESHRE Special Task Force on 'Mild ART'. She has been a member of the expert group in terminology for the World Health Organisation expert group in terminology in infertility and assisted reproductive technology (ART). Nargund is the founder and chief executive of Create Health  Foundation, a UK national charity which is devoted to the promotion of an evidence-based, holistic and supportive approach to women's reproductive health through education and research. 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. Media career. In the press, Nargund is a regular contributor to "The Huffington Post" and has appeared on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio  4. Among the many UK and international newspapers and magazines, she has commented and given opinion in "The Daily Telegraph", "The Independent", "The Guardian", "The Times", BBC, "The Sun", ITV, "Cosmopolitan", and the "International Business Times UK". She is also 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" and is a member of the Tiffany Circle and Tiffany Circle International Council, British Red Cross - a group of  influential women leaders and philanthropists.