Authors

The authors of the articles available at All About Fertility are comprised by leading fertility experts. The experts count doctors, professors, psychologists and consultants. All of them with their own specific field of interest within fertility and infertility. Our authors have one common goal; sharing knowledge and creating awareness about fertility.

You can read more about All About Fertility’s authors below.

Alka Prakash

Alka Prakash is a Consultant and Lead Reproductive Medicine and subfertility, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Allan Pacey

Bio coming soon

Anne Judge

Anne Judge, DNP, ARNP has worked in reproductive medicine for 12 years with a special interest in male infertility and fertility preservation cycles. She has a degree in Human Biology from Stanford University, Nursing degree from the University of Washington, and a Masters and Doctorate degree from Frontier Nursing University as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner.

Anya Sizer

Anya has worked in the field of Infertility for over 13 years now including 6 at the London Womens clinic before joining the Fertility
network. She has written a book entitled Fertile thinking and helped establish several courses for those facing infertility

She is often in the media as a champion for the patient perspective on facing Infertility and is currently busy lobbying MPs and speaking in Parliament regarding Fair provision of IVF for all. She has worked for three MPs and is currently office staff for David Lammy MP She has two children from IVF one from adoption and is a Champion for both the Saying Good bye and Home for good.

Catherine Hill

Head of communications at fertility and genetics charity Progress Educational Trust

China Harrison

China Harrison, PhD, is a psychologist and research associate at Cardiff University, Cardiff Fertility Studies Research Group. China’s research focuses on all aspects of childbearing and fertility but she has a particular interest in the male perspective.

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Claus Højbjerg Gravholt

Claus is a consultant and professor at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, Department of endocrinology and Internal Medicine, and the Department of Molecular Medicine. He has worked clinically and scientifically with rare sex chromosome abnormalities for the last 30 years including Turner and Klinefelter syndrome, having published more than 200 papers on the endocrinology of rare syndromes, focusing on GH, IGFs, androgens and estrogens, and on diabetes and metabolism, epidemiology, cardiology, and genomics.

Danielle Kaplan

Danielle A. Kaplan, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in New York City. She specializes in cognitive-behavioral therapy and reproductive and perinatal mental health. Dr. Kaplan writes and lectures on topics related to clinical supervision, pregnancy loss, and support for patients and families experiencing infertility.

Dawn Davenport

Dawn Davenport is the Executive Director for Creating a Family, which in the US is the national infertility, adoption, & foster care education and support nonprofit organization.

Debbie Evans

Debbie Evans is the Director of clinical Service, Herts & Essex Fertility Centre.

Eileen McMahon

Eileen is a Nurse Practitioner who specializes in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Mount Sinai Fertility in Toronto, Canada.

Emma Grønbæk

Emma Grønbæk is 23 years old. She is studying to become a nurse in Aarhus, Denmark where she also is born and raised. She was donor-conceived and shares her story about that.

Esther H. Chung

Esther H. Chung is a OB/GYN resident at Duke. She concentrated in Neurobiology at Harvard College and obtained her medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 2018. Since then, she has made her first foray down south to North Carolina where she is absorbing all she can as she trains to care for women. She hopes to pursue a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility after residency.

Giuliana Baccino

Giuliana Baccino is a Psychologist and leading expert in the health and fertility field with more than 15 year of experience. She is an international advisor for Europe and Latin America in public and private sectors, and lecturers at several Universities. Dr. Baccino is the Coordinator of the Psychology and Counselling group of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).

Harish Bhandari

Mr. Harish Bhandari MBBS, MD, MRCOG is a Consultant Gynaecologist and accredited Sub-specialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at Leeds Fertility, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Hayley Fryer

Hayley Fryer is a Trainee Embryologist, Herts & Essex Fertility Centre.

Helen Clarke

Helen Clark has over 20 years’ experience in clinical embryology, specialising in quality management, sperm donor recruitment and service development. Clinical experience is supported by a strong background in biomedical research.

Jacqui McMillian-Bohler

Jacqui McMillian-Bohler is a certified nurse-midwife and provided full scope women’s health care in Charleston South Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, and Louisville, Kentucky. Currently she is an assistant clinical professor at Duke University School of Nursing.

Jane Stewart

Jane Stewart a full time NHS consultant in Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology and current Chair of the British Fertility Society.

Jonathan Ramsay

Jonathan Ramsay is a Consultant Urologist at Hammersmith, Charing Cross and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals since 1988, where he specialises in male fertility investigation and treatment.

Karen Baker

Dr. Karen Baker is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Duke University, Durham NC where she provides comprehensive medical and surgical care to couples confronting male infertility. She completed her Fertility Fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic and completed 24 years of military service before joining the Duke faculty.

Karen Ferguson

Karen Ferguson is a reproductive medicine nurse working at Newcastle Fertility Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Karen Pooley

Karen Pooley is a scientist specialising in Andrology (male fertility), and work in an NHS Fertility Service.

Kate Brian

Kate Brian is Women’s Voices Lead at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and author of The Complete Guide to IVF and Precious Babies – Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting after Infertility.

Kelly Acharya

Kelly S. Acharya is an Assistant Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Duke. She is the director of the female Duke Fertility Preservation Program and has special interest in the fertility preservation and reproductive needs of medically complex patients.

Kirby Adlam

Kirby Adlam is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently focusing her research on women’s reproductive health and fertility options. She has worked as a certified nurse midwife for ten years.

Linda C. Giudice

Dr. Giudice is Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a reproductive endocrinologist who cares mainly for women with endometriosis and individuals with infertility. She is a biochemist whose lab studies human endometrium in health and disease. She is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and is current President of the International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS).

Lona Vyas

Bio & picture coming soon

Louisa Ghevaert

Louisa Ghevaert is a Leading UK expert in fertility and family law for modern families and founder of specialist fertility and family law firm Louisa Ghevaert Associates. https://louisaghevaertassociates.co.uk/

Lucy Frith

Dr Lucy Frith is a reader in bioethics and social science at the University of Liverpool and her research focuses on the social and ethical aspects of health-care decision-making, policy and regulation, with a particular interest in empirical ethics and socio-legal approaches.

Marc Lucky

Marc Lucky MBChb(hons), FRCS(Urol), PGCE (Dundee) is a fellowship trained Urologist and Andrological surgeon with particular experience in male infertility and genital reconstruction.

Marilyn Crawshaw

Marilyn Crawshaw, PhD, MA, CQSW, BSc(Soc), are an Honorary fellow at the University of York UK and have many years of practice, research and policy experience in psychosocial aspects of donor conception, surrogacy, cancer-related fertility and adoption.

Matt Prior

Matt Prior is an NHS Consultant in Newcastle with over ten years of experience. His PhD research into subfertility and miscarriage involved developing a clinical trial and patient engagement.

Meenakshi Choudhary

Dr. Choudhary is a Consultant Gynaecologist and Sub Specialist in Reproductive Medicine at Newcastle Fertility Centre at Life, and is the Lead for the new mitochondrial donor program for mitochondrial replacement techniques.

Nicky Hudson

Nicky Hudson is Professor of Medical Sociology and leads to the Centre for Reproduction Research at De Montfort University in the UK. Her research considers the social, political and economic aspects of reproduction. She is currently leading a large-scale study of the experiences of egg donors in the UK, Spain and Belgium.

Patricia E. Hershberger

Dr. Patricia E. Hershberger is an Associate Professor of Nursing and an Affiliate Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has conducted multiple studies in the field of medical and assisted reproduction to improve the health and healthcare of patients and families.

Raj Baksi

Raj Baksi is a workplace fire safety training manager/instructor and volunteer support worker for the KSA Charity. I live in Brighton, East Sussex.

Raj Mathur

Raj is a fertility expert who works in the NHS and private sector in Manchester, and has more than 20 years experience of working with couples and individuals undergoing fertility treatment.

Richard Clothier

Richard Clothier is motivated by personal experiences of fertility treatment inequality and the lack of support available for men, Richard Clothier campaigns to end the UK’s NHS IVF postcode lottery. Doing so has enabled him to talk openly about his own infertility experiences, how they affected him and what he did to mitigate the emotional strain.

Richard Quinton

Dr. Richard Quinton is an Endocrinology working in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He has a long-standing special interest in Reproductive Endocrinology and, specifically, in the hormonal induction of sperm production in men having impairments of the pituitary gland or hypothalamus. He is a strong advocate for the positive role of “expert patients” in guiding patients with rare diseases towards receiving high-quality specialist care.

Richard Sharpe

Professor Richard Sharpe is based in the MRC/University Centre for Reproductive Health in Edinburgh where he led a research programme on male reproductive health. His research career spans more than 40 years.

Ruth Wilde

Ruth Wilde is a specialist fertility counsellor who has worked with many UK clinics and is currently on the board of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Suks Minhas

Bio and picture coming soon

Tarun Jaun

Dr. Jain is a board-certified fertility specialist and an Associate Professor / Medical Director at Northwestern Medicine Center for Fertility & Reproductive Medicine. He completed his fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, has over 19 years of clinical ART experience in both a private and academic setting, and is annually recognized as a Top Doctor by Castle Connolly.

Tulay Karasu

Consultant in Reproductive Medicine at Cambridge IVF, United Kingdom

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Two Dads UK – Michael & Wes

Michael and Wes and are passionate about their special little family. They want to help normalise Same-Sex Families in the UK and globally by supporting other Intended Parents by sharing positive, relevant content and news through our thousands of followers on social media.