Geeta Nargund

Geeta Nargund (MBBS FRCOG London) is a professor and medical doctor in the field of natural and mild IVF and Advanced Technology in Reproductive Medicine.

Education and early career
Nargund was born in 1960. Nargund studied MBBS at Karnatak 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 and one of the founders of CREATE Fertility with Stuart Campbell. Nargund is also a senior consultant gynaecologist and lead consultant for reproductive medicine services at St George's Hospital.

Nargund has been an honorary professor of women's health at the University of Bolton, UK and guest professor at Hasselt University Medical Faculty, Belgium. 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).

Nargund implements 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 also the Founder and Trustee of Create Health Foundation.

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.

She was a member of the Steering Committee of the ESHRE Task Force and a member of the group in terminology for the World Health Organisation assisted reproductive technology (ART).

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. She has also published commentaries in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times, BBC, The Sun, ITV, Cosmopolitan, and the International Business Times UK. She is 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.

Family
Nargund’s husband Vinod Nargund was a consultant urological surgeon at the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust until his retirement. He works as a part-time consultant andrologist at CREATE Fertility, He has successfully led the andrology service for CREATE Fertility for over 10 years.

Her son Praful is Co-Founder and of abc IVF and was previously the CEO of CREATE Fertility and abc IVF.

Current posts

 * Medical Director, CREATE Health
 * Founder and Trustee, CREATE Health Foundation
 * Director, Walking Egg Foundation
 * Co-Founder, Ginsburg Women's Health Board
 * Vice Chair and Board Member, British Red Cross
 * President, International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction (ISMAAR)
 * Authority Member, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
 * Senior NHS Consultant and Lead Consultant for Reproductive Medicine, St George's Hospital NHS Trust

Previous posts

 * Vice president for London for British Red Cross

Honours and awards

 * 2023 GG2 Leadership and Diversity Inspire Award
 * 2017 Special Award - Doctor of the Year - British Association for Physicians of Indian Origin
 * 2016 Top ten most influential Asian women in Britain - Asian Sunday Newspaper
 * 2015 Daily Telegraph UK STEM Awards Hero
 * 2015 Winner at annual Inspiration Awards for Women
 * 2014 Winner of RBS Chairman’s Award for most outstanding candidate at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2014 for her work in advancing safer, more accessible fertility treatments in the UK and across the world
 * 2013 Winner of Red Magazines Hot Women Award for charity work

Publications

 * Development of in vitro maturation for human oocytes: natural and mild approaches to clinical infertility treatment, 2017
 * Changes in practice make analysis of historical databases irrelevant for comparison between Natural and Stimulated IVF, 2017