Hilary Critchley

Hilary Octavia Dawn Critchley FRSE FRSB FMedSci FFSRH FRCOG FRANZCOG is a Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist. , she is the Professor of Reproductive Medicine and an Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Edinburgh.

Education
Critchley earned a B.S. (1978) and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (1981) from the University of Manchester. She earned the degree of Doctor of Medicine, also from the University of Manchester, in 1991.

Career and research
She was appointed as the Head of School of Clinical Sciences in August 2012. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals.

Critchley's research focusses on local uterine mechanisms involved in menstruation and implantation, and addresses the mechanisms common to those reproductive processes – injury and repair, endocrine–immune interactions and regulation of inflammatory mediators. A particular area of interest has been the local endometrial response to withdrawal of progesterone, both physiological and pharmacological.

Awards and honours
In 2019, Critchley was one of the women in science profiled in an exhibit presented by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2021, the Society for Reproductive Investigation awarded Critchley with the DeCherney Society LIfetime Distinguished Service Award. She was the Society for Reproduction and Fertility's Distinguished Scientist Lecturer in 2020.

She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2012) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (2009).