Lesley Regan

BIOGRAPHY

Lesley Regan MD,FRCOG,MBBS

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College
• Director for Gynaecology at St Mary's Hospital, London
• Visiting Professor to the Harvard Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

EDUCATION:
Lesley Regan graduated from the Royal Free Hospital London in 1980 having been inspired to take up Obstetrics & Gynaecology by one of her teachers. She moved to Cambridge in 1984, to take up her first registrar post in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Addenbrookes Hospital. At an early stage in her clinical training she was struck by how little was understood about the causes of miscarriage – the commonest complication of pregnancy. During her time in Cambridge she was introduced to the excitement of clinical and laboratory research and was awarded her MD thesis entitled 'Epidemiology and mechanisms of sporadic and recurrent miscarriage' in 1989 following a secondment to the MRC Embryo & Gamete Research Group. In 1985 she was invited to become a teaching fellow at Girton College and a year later was appointed Director of Medical Studies, a post that she continued to hold until she moved back to London.

AWARDS:
• Harvard Medical Society, Boston, Harvard Medical Society 2001
• Woman of Achievement Award for services to Reproductive Medicine, particularly infertility and recurrent miscarriage, Benenden School 2005

MEMBERSHIPS:
• Society for Gynaecologic Investigation USA
• Royal Society of Medicine
• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
• Medico Legal Society
• 1942 Club
• International Federation of Gynecology & Obstetrics (FIGO)
• Gynaecological Visiting Society
• European Team for Early Pregnancy (ETEP)
• European Society for Human Reproduction & Embryology
• European Association of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
• British Society for Immunology - Materno-fetal immunology group
• British Fertility Society
• Blair Bell Research Society
• Association of Professors in Obstetrics & Gynaecology UK
• American Society of Reproductive Medicine

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr Regan specialises in recurrent pregnancy losses, focused ultrasound and/or laser ablation treatment to fibroids, and general gynaecology and obstetrics. Her research team has been instrumental in furthering the understanding and treatment of Antiphospholipid Syndrome and other thrombophilic disorders in reproductive failure. The recurrent miscarriage service is now recognised internationally and her research team have been instrumental in furthering our understanding and treatment of Antiphospholipid Syndrome and other thrombophilic disorders in reproductive failure.

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