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Professor Geeta Nargund is a Senior Consultant Gynaecologist and Lead Consultant for Reproductive Medicine services at St George’s Hospital, London.

Professor Nargund has published more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers including abstracts and also several book chapters in the field of reproductive medicine.

She is a pioneer in the field of Natural and Mild IVF and Advanced Ultrasound Technology in Reproductive Medicine, and is an accredited trainer for Infertility and Gynaecological Ultrasound special skills modules by the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG) London and British Fertility Society (BFS).

Professor Nargund pioneered the use of follicular Doppler in assessing “Egg quality” in humans. She also published the first scientific paper on “Cumulative live birth rates with Natural cycle IVF”.

She is a co-author of the scientific paper on the innovative Simplified Culture System, which allows IVF to be performed without the need for a conventional laboratory. This scientific paper won the 'Robert Edwards Prize' for the best paper of the year in RBMonline in 2014.

Professor Geeta Nargund is also the Co-Editor-In Chief of The European Scientific Journal, Facts, Views and Vision in OBGYN and is on the International Editorial Board of the Scientific journal, The Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences.

Professor Nargund is the President of the International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction (ISMAAR), a UK registered charity. Through her leading role, she has been the voice for women’s choice, health and education in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) globally. She promotes safer, less-drug-orientated and accessible ART.

Professor Nargund was also a member of the WHO (World Health Organisation) expert sub-group on infertility guidelines. She is a member of the steering committee of the Special Task Force on “infertility in developing countries” set up by the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), and was the Chair of the ESHRE Special Task Force on “Mild ART”. She is a regular invited speaker at national & international scientific conferences.

Professor Geeta Nargund is a visiting professor at various universities; Hasselt University, Medical Faculty (working at Genk University Hospital), Belgium; St Marco University Lima (oldest university in Latin America) and SDM Medical College, India, and has also been a senior governor of primary and secondary state schools in south London.

She is actively involved in research into making IVF more natural, accessible and safer for women and children. She is the Chief Executive of the UK National charity, Create Health Foundation. This Charity funds and supports women’s health education in the UK and in Africa.

Professor Nargund is a regular speaker at Westminster Health Seminars on Health and Social care in the UK. She has also been an invited speaker at the women’s health conference along with the members of UN and also at a European Women’s conference on “Female Quality of life in the developed World”.

She appears in Tatler’s Doctors Guide for 2013 and is also an associate member of Guild of Health Writers UK. She cares deeply about and has been actively involved in charities promoting education, women’s health and development, equality and social mobility in the last 15 years.

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.

Dr Peychinova joined CREATE fertility after she completed two years of training in Fetal Medicine at Kings College University Hospital. As a clinical research fellow, she participated in big research projects such as “ASPRE”: Aspirin for prevention of early preeclapsia, The role of the fetal fibronectin in prevention of the preterm delivery and many others.

Before coming to the UK, Dr Ivanka Peychinova graduated with her medical degree in 2002 in Medical University of Plovdiv, and did 4 years of training in Contemporary Reproductive Techniques and IVF from 2011 to 2015, in Bulgaria.

In 2007 she was recognized as a specialist in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine from Medical University of Sofia.

Her career in reproductive medicine began in 2009, when she went to work for University Hospital and IVF Centre SELENA, and did extensive training in Laparoscopies, hysteroscopies and other procedures related to infertility.

Dr Peychinova joined CREATE fertility as she believes that the more natural approach which focuses on the quality of women’s eggs rather than the quantity, is the best approach to take to achieve a successful outcome.

She is also a member of British Fertility Society, an associated member of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She has multiple qualifications in the Ultrasound in the Obstetrics and Gynecology, 3D & 4D Doppler and Transvaginal Sonography.

Martin Wilding has a degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College London and a Ph.D. in the physiology of fertilisation from University College London. He has practised IVF and ICSI from 1999 and has worked in many top ranking IVF centres throughout Europe including Italy and Switzerland. Martin is HPC registered and is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He has over 50 research papers in the field of human reproduction and his research interests including studying the relationship between maternal age and reproduction.