Professor Geeta Nargund

Professor Nargund founded CREATE Fertility because of her mission to reduce the physical and emotional burden of treatment and lower the risks of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS) and related health risks to women undergoing IVF treatment led to her research in Natural, Natural Modified and Mild IVF treatments. She published the first paper on the use of “One-Stop Fertility Diagnosis” using Advanced Ultrasound Technology, as well as the first scientific paper on “cumulative live birth rates using Natural Cycle IVF”. She has published extensively in scientific journals and is also a regular contributor to commentaries and debates in the media. She started a global scientific society ISMAAR to advance the mission of “Less is More” and “Quality and not Quantity” in IVF, alongside other renowned international scientific leaders. She has continued to publish peer-reviewed research to demonstrate that equivalent success rates can be achieved with Mild IVF whilst reducing the treatment burden and side-effects for women compared to Conventional IVF.  

Professor Nargund’s approach has led to the creation of thousands of babies and the reduction in severe OHSS across the world. She emphasises that the welfare and safety of the woman undergoing IVF treatment is as important as the success of treatment when measuring outcomes. She continues to campaign in the UK for including the “welfare and safety of the woman” alongside the “welfare of the child” in the HFEA Act. She is a campaigner for equal and fair access to IVF on the NHS and is proud that Create fertility has been serving NHS patients in many regions in England for more than a decade.  

Professor Nargund left CREATE Fertility on 30th June 2025, and no longer works for the company. She continues to serve on the Board of the HFEA, the UK’s fertility regulatory body.  

Selected associated activity:

Professor Geeta Nargund's TED Talk on Fertility Education - 8th March, International Women's Day 2017

Read Professor Nargund's regular blogs on Huffington Post - Health and Lifestyle

Professor Geeta Nargund was a member of the Tiffany Circle Steering Committee and International Council by British Red Cross until March 2020; the Tiffany Circle is a powerful group of women leaders and philanthropists

Professor Geeta Nargund has also been elected as a Trustee to the Board of British Red Cross in September 2017.

Associated Activities:

• Professor Geeta Nargund was appointed between 2017 - 2020 as a Trustee on the Board of the charity- London Emergencies Trust
• Professor Nargund is proud to be a Director of the Walking Egg Foundation, a Belgian Charity dedicated to making fertility treatments affordable and accessible globally
• She is a campaigner for Fertility Education in Schools

Achievements

• Professor Nargund was awarded the “Red Woman of the Year Award for Charity and Community work” by Red magazine in December 2013
• She was the recipient of the “RBS Chairman’s Award”, a special, prestigious award for the outstanding candidate at the Asian Women of Achievement awards ceremony
• She was recognised as a Woman of the Year 2015 at the 60th Women of Year Anniversary Lunch by Women of the Year
• She was the recipient of Inspirational Woman Award 2015 at the 9th Inspiration Awards
• Professor Geeta Nargund was quoted as a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ) Heros by the Daily Telegraph in 2015
• She was listed amongst the top 10 most influential Asian women in the UK by the Asian Sunday Newspaper to mark International Women's Day 2016  
• Professor Geeta Nargund won the "Doctor of the Year" by the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin in November 2017