Peter Robert Brinsden MBBS, MRCS, LRCP, FRCOG (born 2 September 1940) is known for the treatment of infertility in couples. From 1989 to 2006 he was the medical director of Bourn Hall Clinic in the UK, a leading centre for the treatment of fertility problems, and where about 6,000 babies have been conceived using IVF and other assisted conception treatments. [1]
Brinsden was born in Peking in China in 1940. He lived in China, the United States, Canada and Hong Kong until 1950. Brinsden was educated at Rugby School, King's College London and St George's Hospital Medical School. He qualified MBBS and MRCS, LRCP in 1966. [2]
Brinsden joined the Royal Navy in 1966, and served as ship's medical officer 1969–1970. He started training as a gynaecologist in 1970 in military and civilian NHS hospitals until 1978. He qualified DObst RCOG in 1981, MRCOG in 1976 and was elected FRCOG in 1989. [2] Brinsden was made a Consultant Gynaecologist in 1978, with a principal interest in infertility treatment.
He retired from the Royal Navy in 1982 with the rank of surgeon commander. [2] Brinsden served as a consultant at King Fahad Hospital, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia 1982–1985 and then at Bourn Hall Clinic under Patrick Steptoe, the IVF pioneer who, with Robert Edwards, was responsible for the birth of the world's first IVF baby Louise Brown in 1978.
Brinsden joined the Wellington Hospital IVF Unit, then the world's largest IVF and GIFT clinic, [3] as deputy director. He was appointed medical director at Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridge, in the UK in March 1989 following the death of Patrick Steptoe in 1988. Since his retirement in 2006 he has been the consultant medical director.
He has been an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge's Clinical School at Addenbrookes Hospital since 1992, and a visiting professor in gynaecology and fertility at the Capital Medical University in Beijing since 2001. Brinsden has also been an inspector for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority since 1997.
Brinsden is in great demand internationally as a lecturer on fertility and assisted conception issues, and in recent years has lectured at, among others, the Fertility Society of Australia's 2006 Conference, [4] the Serono Symposia International, [5] the Chicago 2007 Midwest Reproductive Symposium, [6] and the 2006 Barbados IVF Conference. [7]
Brinsden was elected president of the British Fertility Society in April 2009 [8] and is the vice-chairman of The Nelson Society. [9]
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Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS was an English obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. Steptoe was responsible with biologist and physiologist Robert Edwards and the nurse Jean Purdy for developing in vitro fertilisation. Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born on 25 July 1978. Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the development of in vitro fertilisation; Steptoe was not eligible for consideration because the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously.
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) includes medical procedures used primarily to address infertility. This subject involves procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), cryopreservation of gametes or embryos, and/or the use of fertility medication. When used to address infertility, ART may also be referred to as fertility treatment. ART mainly belongs to the field of reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Some forms of ART may be used with regard to fertile couples for genetic purpose. ART may also be used in surrogacy arrangements, although not all surrogacy arrangements involve ART.
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards was a British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular. Along with the surgeon Patrick Steptoe, and the nurse Jean Purdy, Edwards successfully pioneered conception through IVF, which led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978. They founded the first IVF programme for infertile patients and trained other scientists in their techniques. Edwards was the founding editor-in-chief of Human Reproduction in 1986. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization".
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Sammy Lee was an expert on fertility and in vitro fertilisation
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Simon Fishel is an English physiologist, biochemist and pioneering in vitro fertilisation (IVF) specialist.
Martin Hume Johnson is emeritus professor of Reproductive Sciences in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (PDN) at the University of Cambridge.
Jean Marian Purdy was a British nurse and embryologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. Purdy was responsible with Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe for developing in vitro fertilisation. Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born on 25 July 1978, and Purdy was the first to see the embryonic cells dividing. Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the development of in vitro fertilisation; however, because the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously, neither Purdy nor Steptoe were eligible for consideration. Purdy was a co-founder of the Bourn Hall Clinic but her role there and in the development of IVF was ignored for 30 years.
Norbert Gleicher, is an American obstetrician-gynecologist active in obstetrical practice, in vitro fertilization, reproductive endocrinology, and reproductive immunology. He is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and currently serves as president, medical director and chief scientist of the Center for Human Reproduction (CHR) in New York City, a clinical fertility center that he founded in 1981. Simultaneously, he is President of the Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, a not-for-profit research foundation. Gleicher maintains additional academic appointments at Rockefeller University, and Medical University of Vienna.
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