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| Gautam Allahbadia |
Dr Gautam Allahbadia MD, DNB, DGO, DFP,
FCPS, FICMU, FICOG, FNAMS
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| Dr Gautam N Allahbadia, MD is the Medical Director
of Deccan Fertility Clinic & Keyhole Surgery Center. He
is also the Medical Director at Rotunda -The Center for Human
Reproduction, the world-renowned infertility clinic at Bandra,
Mumbai, India. |
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| He is a noted world authority on ultrasound guided
embryo transfers and and one of the pioneers in third party
reproduction in South-East Asia. |
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| He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications to
his credit and is on the Editorial Board of several International
Journals.
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| Throughout his career, Dr Allahbadia has been
instrumental in developing new fertility-enhancing protocols
and propogating the use of ultrasound in embryo transfer procedures.
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| The development of a highly successful egg donation
program at Rotunda has made it possible to achieve pregnancies
in women who have premature ovarian failure. |
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| Dr Allahbadia was responsible for India's first
trans-ethnic surrogate pregnancy involving a Chinese couple's
baby delivered by an unrelated Indian surrogate mother. |
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| He also has to his credit India's first Same-Sex
Couple pregnancy and delivery of twins. At Deccan and Rotunda,
patients may avail themselves of a myriad of reproductive options
ranging from in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic
sperm injection (ICSI), donor egg IVF, ovulation induction and
intrauterine insemination (IUI), to participation in one of
the most successful gestational surrogacy programs in the country.
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| The Centers provide a full spectrum of state-of-the-art
medical and surgical treatment in reproductive endocrinology
and gynecology including advanced laparoscopic surgery, tubal
reconstruction, and minimally invasive USG-guided therapeutic
procedures. |
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| Dr Allahbadia and his world-class team of reproductive
endocrinologists, embryologists, andrologists and infertility
specialists have helped hundreds of couples have babies through
assisted reproduction. |
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| Dr Allahbadia has had quite a prolific career
-- he has authored over 100 scientific papers, 60 book chapters
and 13 textbooks, the latest of which is a comprehensive text,
entitled "Embryo Transfer" available from Jaypee Medical
Publishers. |
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| He directs two franchisee satellite IVF programs in India at Jalandhar and Ahmedabad. |
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| He was a lecturer for over four years at the
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College followed by a 12 year
tenure at the University of Mumbai affiliated Bombay Hospital
Institute of Medical Sciences before going full time into private
practice. |
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| He is the recipient of over 25 prizes & fellowships
in the field notable among which are the Canadian Young Scientist
Fellowship Award for the year 1994, which allowed him to train
in Infertility at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
and the National Dr Kumud Tamaskar award for original research
work in infertility in the year 1991. |
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| He is the recipient of six research grants from
the International College of Surgeons and the Medical Research
Centre of Bombay Hospital Trust. |
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| He has been an invited guest speaker or faculty
member at over 70 Congresses, Workshops and Scientific Meetings.
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| He was awarded the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst fellowship for the year 1996 to train in Assisted
Reproductive Techniques in Germany. |
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| He has completed his training in IVF/ICSI at
the University of Goettingen, Bielefeld IVF Center & the
University of Munich |
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| He was awarded the AOFOG-Young Gynecologist Award
for the year 1998. He is the Web Master for the SISAB (Society
of Indian Scientists Abroad) Website on the Internet (www.sisab.net)
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| He has been awarded the most prestigious FOGSI-CORION
National Research award for best original research work in Infertility
at the 42nd All India Obstetric & Gynecological Congress
held at Hyderabad in December 1998. |
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| He has recently been elected as the General Secretary
of the World Association of Reproductive Medicine (WARM) headquartered
in Rome, Italy and was the Scientific Chairman of the 2nd World
Congress of WARM held in Rome in May 2004. |
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| He has organized seven International Congresses
in the subject and was recently made a visiting lecturer to
the University of Tel Aviv - Sackler School of Medicine - the
first Indian to be given such a position. |
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