Beginners guide to IVF

Mr Nicopoullos is the Clinical Director and “Person Responsible” at the Lister Fertility Clinic.

He joined The Lister Fertility clinic in 2008. He graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in 1996, before training predominantly in London. Through this time, he trained under a number of eminent consultants specialising in reproductive medicine that fuelled his interest in the field. He undertook an MD research thesis in “the effect of sperm aneuploidy and DNA fragmentation on ICSI outcome” at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, where he also completed his subspecialist training in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery.

Mr Nicopoullos is widely published in peer-reviewed international journals with more than 35 publications on topics such as male fertility, management of viral infections and sub-fertility, low ovarian reserve, ovarian hyper stimulation, premature ovarian failure, effect of progesterone levels and other markers of successful fertility treatments.

He is regular speaker at national and international conferences, regular contributor of fertility support networks, he acts as a reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals and is an active member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology and a committee member of the British Fertility Society.

He continues to combine his clinical commitments with an ongoing research program and as clinical director has a key role in ensuring ongoing excellence of care within the unit as part of the quality management team. He is also a member of the HFEA Licensed Centres Panel.

He is highly experienced in all aspects of reproductive medicine, with a particular interest in complicated cases that are referred to the unit. He also specializes in the overall management of gynaecological disorders such as polycystic ovarian syndrome, recurrent miscarriage, premature ovarian failure and menopause that have a reproductive element at their core. He also leads the clinic’s egg freezing/fertility preservation program.