The best performer of the andrology labs is Valerie McGowan.

Valerie is a Biomedical Scientist within the Reproductive Medicine Laboratory at the Edinburgh Fertility & Reproductive Endocrine Centre. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience having worked in the field since 1996, making her the perfect and much appreciated mentor. As a small team of four, Valerie and the team provide an ISO-accredited diagnostic andrology service as well as semen cryopreservation for patients in the Lothians and Borders.

In order from left to right: Laura Wales, Valerie McGowan, Iain Buck, Sheona Watson.
This lab has one basic licence and three individual licences.

The graphic shows the performance of Valerie McGowan over last two years (blue curve).

The green and red curves shows the performance of all participants of UK NEQAS reproductive science scheme.

Above the green curve are the best 25% of all participants (top performers), below the red curve
the worse 25% of the group (low performers).

Edinburgh Fertility & Reproductive Endocrine Centre  (EFREC) in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, is a unit of NHS Lothian.

NHS Lothian provides services for the second largest residential population in Scotland - circa 850,000 people. It employs approximately 24,000 staff.

EFREC has been providing a high standard of care to couples and individuals with fertility problems for over 30 years. It offers a full range of fertility investigations and treatments for both NHS funded and self-funded patients.

The second best performer of the andrology laboratories, after the third place in 2017, is the team of Dr. Shimi Barda who is the laboratory director of the Male fertility and sperm bank unit.

The lab's team consists of 5 technicians: Marina Ilatov, Liat Arieli, Dr. Sandra Kleiman, Maggie Fierce-Taub and Shlomit Shabat.

This lab has one basic licence.

The graphic shows the performance of the team over last two years.

The Male fertility and sperm bank unit in the Lis Maternity Hospital is a part of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The laboratory performs routine semen analyses, sperm preparation before artificial insemination, sperm cryopreservation, and molecular analyses.

The current research is focused on gene involvement in infertility, impairment in meiosis as a cause for infertility, factor that may improve cryopreservation results.

The third best performer of the andrology laboratories is Martin Hamilton at Haematology Laboratory of Craigavon Area Hospital.

This lab has one basic licence and four individual licences.

 

The graphic shows the performance of Martin Hamilton over last two years.

The Craigavon Area Hospital  in Portadown, Northern Ireland, is part of Southern Health and Social Trust which was established in 2007 and employs approximately 13,000 staff.

Top Performers Embryology

The best performer of the embryology laboratories is Dr. Tom Connolly, working for IVI Midland.

The second best performer is Laura Perkins, also working for IVI Midland.

Tom Connolly is a HCPC registered clinical embryologist who joined the team in 2015. He is responsible for co-ordinating the sperm donor programme and IQA for semen analysis. Tom is soon to undergo embryo biopsy training.

Laura is an embryologist, currently working towards her HCPC registration, who joined the team in 2006.  Laura performs all aspects of embryology including ICSI and has further responsibility for reporting our pregnancies derived by donor sperm to the various donor banks.  Laura is also involved in the E-freeze trial and will soon undergo embryo biopsy training.

The IVI Midland laboratory team is led by Su Barlow.

The photograph shows some of the team (from left to right): Gina Aldis (Lab Manager), Craig Clifford, Su Barlow, Laura Perkins, Laura Edmunds, and Tom Connolly.

This lab has one basic licence and seven individual licences.


 

The graphic shows the performance of Tom Connolly over last two years (blue curve).

The green and red curves shows the performance of all participants of UK NEQAS reproductive science scheme.

Above the green curve are the best 25% of all participants (top performers).

Below the red curve are the worse 25% of the group (low performers).

This graphic shows the performance of Laura Perkins.

VI Midland  (formerly Midland Fertility) based in Tamworth, Staffordshire has provided assisted conception services to both private and NHS-funded patients since 1987.

Offering a full service including: IVF, ICSI, Surgical sperm retrieval, vitrification of oocytes & blastocysts, an active egg & sperm donor programme and soon to offer PGS.

The lab team have plenty to keep them busy. IVI Midland is proud of its high success rates, low multiple birth rates and the patient care provided by the experienced staff members.

The IVI Midland laboratories have recently undergone a UKAS inspection for accreditation to ISO 15189 to provide andrology and blood services. The embryology laboratory utilises time-lapse imaging for all patient embryos and performs blastocyst culture.

The third best performer, after best performer in 2017, of the embryology laboratories is Emma Gallagher who is an embryologist in King's Fertility. Emma joined the team at King’s in 2010, completed her ACE in 2015 and is currently working towards HCPC registration.

The lab has one basic licence.











 

The embryology team in King's Fertility is led by Lourdes Muriel Rios and Anastasia Mania. The team consists of Sarah Newton, Rachel Gibbons, Indpreet Hunjan, Malvika Khanna, Malwina Paul, Emma Gallagher, Lauren Weavers, Georgia Everett, Jose Miro and Kasia Smigielska.
























 

The graphic shows the performance of Emma Gallagher over last two years.

King’s Fertility, formerly King's College Hospital Assisted Conception Unit is located in London, United Kingdom.

Under the leadership of Dr Ippokratis Sarris, King’s Fertility is the result of a partnership between the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) and King's College Hospital.

The FMF is a charity founded by the Professor Kypros Nicolaides, an acclaimed expert researcher and medical practitioner in the field of fetal medicine.

King's College Hospital Assisted Conception Unit, London, was one of the first fertility clinics in the UK when it opened in 1983. Many of the techniques which are now standard practice throughout the world were pioneered here at King’s.

King's Fertility currently performs approximately 1200 cycles of IVF/ICSI per year. Additionally, King's offers donor gamete treatment and has adopted the vitrification method to make it possible to offer cryopreservation for patients with blood-borne viral infections. King's Fertility employs a 100% time lapse (Embryoscope) culture system for non-infectious patients. While the majority of our patients are treated under the NHS, we also provide an affordable self-funded and private service.
 

The fourth best performer of the embryology laboratories is Alison Jose. Alison is a Clinical Embryologist with Manchester Fertility where she trained when the clinic first opened over 30 years ago.

This lab has one basic and ten individual licences.











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The embryology team is led by Claire Kay.

The team consists of Alan Birks, Keith McEvoy, Alison Jose, Lydia Ruddick and Sarah Al-Jazary.













 

The graphic shows the performance of Alison Jose over last two years.

Manchester Fertility located in Cheadle, United Kingdom, is at the forefront of fertility treatment and has been trusted with the care of thousands of patients that has seen over 5,000 babies born.

Its pioneering approach and cutting edge care offers the most modern fertility advances available together with a full range of fertility treatments including IVF, ICSI, IUI and treatment with UK donor sperm and eggs its own UK donor banks.