Geeta Nargund (
MBBS
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FRCOG London) is a professor, medical doctor, innovator, entrepreneur
and pioneer in the field of
natural and mild IVF and Advanced Ultrasound Technology in
Reproductive Medicine
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Reprodu ...
.
Education and early career
Nargund was born in 1960.
Nargund studied MBBS at
Karnatak
Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...
Medical College (now
Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences
Karnataka Medical college and Research Institute, Hubballi (KMCRI, Hubballi) is a medical school in Hubballi, India, affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka. It is one of the oldest government tertiar ...
)
Hubli
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, India and at the
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
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in
London
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.
Medical career
Nargund is the founder of CREATE Fertility and ABC IVF. She was the founder CEO for many years and served as the Medical Director of the company until 1st July 2025.
Nargund is also a senior consultant gynaecologist and lead consultant for reproductive medicine services at
St George's Hospital
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.
She was appointed as Pro-Chancellor of The
University of Portsmouth
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in July 2025. Nargund is an honorary professor of women's health at the
University of Greater Manchester, UK and has been a guest professor at
Hasselt University
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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
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* Charitable organization or charity, a non-profit organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being of persons
* Charity (practice), the practice of being benevolent, giving and sha ...
supporting fertility in the
British Jewish
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History
The firs ...
community. She is passionate about prevention of
infertility
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, 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 Co-Editor-in-Chief for the European scientific journal Facts, Views and Vision in ObGyn. Served on the international editorial board of the
Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences.
Currently serves on editorial board of Reproductive Bio Medicine Online scientific journal.
She was a member of the Steering Committee of the
ESHRE
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Task Force and a member of the group in terminology for the
World Health Organisation
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assisted reproductive technology
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(ART).
Currently President of International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction (ISMAAR).
Media career
In the press, Nargund is a regular contributor to ''
The Huffington Post
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'' and has appeared on
Woman's Hour
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History
The first BBC programme for women was the programme cal ...
on
BBC Radio 4
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. She has also published commentaries in ''
The Daily Telegraph
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'', ''
The Independent
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'', ''
The Guardian
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'', ''
The Times
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'',
BBC
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, ''
The Sun
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'',
ITV
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, ''
Cosmopolitan
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* Cosmopolitan ...
'', and the ''
International Business Times UK
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''. She is an full member of the Guild of Health Writers UK. She delivered a
TEDx
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talk on "Empowering Young People with Fertility Education in 2017.
Current posts
* Pro-Chancellor of The
University of Portsmouth
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* Senior NHS Consultant and Lead Consultant for Reproductive Medicine, St George's Hospital NHS Trust
* 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
* Chair, The Pipeline (Executive Pipeline Ltd)
Honours and awards
* 2025 Metro Pride Award for "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion"
* 2023 GG2 Leadership and Diversity Inspire Award
* 2020 Economic Innovator of the Year Award: Spectator Magazine
* 2018 Lloyds Developmental Capital: Top 50 Ambitious Leaders
* 2017 London Business School: Real Innovation Awards, People’s Choice 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
* ''Closing the gender health gap'', 2022
References
Further reading
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External links
CREATE Fertility
The International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction (ISMAAR)
Guild of Health Writers
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Living people
British gynaecologists
Year of birth missing (living people)