MRCOG Associate Specialist Assisted Conception Unit Guy’s Hospital London UK
Giuseppe Ricci MD Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Medical Sciences University of Trieste; Director Assisted Reproduction Unit, Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo Trieste Italy
Isla Robertson BMBCh, BA (Medical Sciences), MRCOG Clinical Research Fellow in Reproductive Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology University of Southampton Southampton UK
Lynne Robinson MBCHB, MD, MRCOG Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Fertility and Menopause Clinical Lead Birmingham Women’s Hospital Birmingham UK
Lawrence S. Ross MD Past President American Urological Association Clarence C. Saelhof Professor Emeritus of Urology University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois USA
Heather E. Ross JD Partner Founding Partner, Ross and Zuckerman, LLP Chicago, Illinois USA
Defne Saatci BA, MBBChir, MRes Research Fellow Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health London UK
Mahmoud Salama MD, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois USA
Shawqi Saleh MD, FRCOG Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology The University of Jordan Amman Jordan
Hassan N. Sallam MD, FRCOG, PhD Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Alexandria Alexandria Egypt
Mark V. Sauer, MD, MS Professor and Chairman Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Senior Associate Dean for Women’s Health Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Brunswick, New Jersey USA
Claire Scanlon MB, ChB Specialist Trainee in Anaesthesia Birmingham Children’s Hospital Birmingham UK
Ahmed G. Serour MD Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Al Azhar University Cairo Egypt
Lora K. Shahine, MD, FACOG Director of the Center for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Pacific NW Fertility; Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Washington Washington USA
Khaldoun Sharif MBBCh (Hons), MFFP, MD, FACOG, FRCOG Consultant Obstetrician and GynaecologistSubspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery Clinical Director Fertility Center Jordan Hospital Amman Jordan
Omar Sharif Faculty of Medicine The University of Jordan Amman Jordan
Sherman J. Silber MD Director Infertility Center of St. Louis St. Luke’s Hospital St. Louis, Missouri USA
Kavita Singh MD, MRCOG Consultant Gynaecologist Pan‐Birmingham Women’s Gynaecological Cancer Centre City Hospital Birmingham UK
Murat Sönmezer MD Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Ankara University School of Medicine Ankara Turkey
Barbara Sonntag MD, PhD Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Facharztzentrum für Kinderwunsch, pränatale Medizin, Endokrinologie und Osteologie Amedes Experts Hamburg Hamburg Germany
Annika Strandell MD, PhD Senior lecturer, Associate Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Institute of Clinical Sciences Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden
Donna Summers MS, ELD (ABB) Embryology /Laboratory Director Cooper Institute for Reproductive Hormonal Disorders Mt. Laurel, New Jersey USA
Sesh Kamal Sunkara MBBS, MD, FRCOG Senior Clinical Lecturer in Reproductive Medicine Department of Women’s Health King’s College London; Consultant Gynaecologist and Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine King’s Fertility London UK
Alastair G. Sutcliffe MB, ChB, MD, PhD Professor of General Paediatrics The UCL and Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health London UK
Brad B. Swelstad MD Clinical and Research Fellow Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland USA
Teddy Tadros MD IVF Specialist Center of Reproductive Medicine and Genetics Aboujaoude Hospital Beirut Lebanon
Jennifer Tamblyn MBChB, BMedSci (Hons), PhD Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research University of Birmingham Birmingham UK
Omar Taso MD, JBOG Senior Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellow in Feto‐Maternal Medicine King Hussein Medical Centre Amman Jordan
Alison Taylor MBBS, MD, MRCOG Consultant Gynaecologist and Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine Lister Fertility Clinic Lister Hospital London UK
Kelton Tremellen MBBS(Hons), PhD, FRANZCOG, CREI Professor of Reproductive Medicine Department of Obstetrics Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine Flinders University Bedford Park Australia
Volkan Turan MD Associate Professor İstanbul Üsküdar University School of Medicine Istanbul Turkey
Jenna Turocy MD Fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Columbia University Irving Medical Center New York, New York USA
Martyn Underwood MBChB, MRCOG, BSCCP Consultant Gynaecologist and Care Group Medical Director for Women and Children Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust Shrewsbury UK
Bulent Urman MD Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Koc University School of Medicine Istanbul Turkey
Usha Verma MD Professor and Director Division of Gynecology Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Miami/Miller School of Medicine Miami, Florida USA
Kugajeevan Vigneswaran MRCOG Subspecialty Trainee in Reproductive Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology King’s College Hospital London UK
Lynn M. Westphal MD, FACOG Professor Emerita of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Stanford University Stanford, California USA
Carla Ball White Administrator Fertility Institute of New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Kayhan Yakin MD, PhD Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Koc University School of Medicine Istanbul Turkey
Kaoru Yanagida MD, PhD Professor and Director Center for Infertility and IVF International University of Health and Welfare Hospital Otawara Tochigi Japan
A. Albert Yuzpe MD, MSc, FRCS(C) Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Co‐Director, Genesis Fertility Centre Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Armand Zini MD Professor Department of Surgery McGill University Montreal Canada
Preface to the second edition
Since the first edition of this book 9 years ago, the number of in vitro fertilization babies in the world has doubled to over 8 million. New challenges have emerged, and
