Robert is a fertility specialist with extensive clinical experience in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), and is renowned for his caring approach and bedside manner.

Robert established a PCOS clinic at IVFAustralia for women of all ages, offering diagnosis, assessment and understanding of how to cope with the symptoms of PCOS while trying to start a family, as well as later in life when the condition can cause other health issues. He is also involved in POSSA, the patient support group for women dealing with PCOS.

Another key area of Robert’s expertise is recurrent miscarriage, where he provides thorough follow-up care for patients. Robert wholeheartedly believes that simply providing a little extra TLC for a woman who has had previous miscarriages can have a huge positive effect on the next pregnancy.

He has more than 10 years’ experience as a gynaecologist, as well as qualifications in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (CREI), a field he has worked in for over a decade, both in Australia and Europe. In his role as a clinical director for IVFAustralia, he also deals with general male and female infertility.

Robert is Clinical Director of IVFAustralia’s Greenwich Clinic. He co-ordinates IVFAustralia’s Miscarriage Care Program, and is the Visiting Medical Officer at the Sydney Adventist Hospital. He is involved with teaching both medical students and registrars through the University of Sydney and Notre Dame, and is actively involved in ongoing research pertaining to infertility.

Danielle is a fully accredited Urologist having completed her medical training at the University of Sydney and the Northern Clinical School (Royal North Shore Hospital). Danielle developed a passion for Paediatric Urology and spent several years in Paediatric and General surgery training throughout metropolitan and rural NSW prior to commencing her formal Urology training in Victoria.
Danielle has recently opened a The Yellow Spot Clinic www.yellowspotclinic.com.au which provides multi-disciplinary children’s continence care on Sydney’s lower north shore. This is a GP led service for children with daytime urinary incontinence and nocturnal enuresis. Danielle operates privately at North Shore Private Hospital and The Castlecrag Private Hospital. She is also a VMO at Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick where both public and private paediatric patients can be admitted.

Dr Sivam is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician. After completing her medical training in Nova Scotia, Canada, she undertook further specialist training in Boston, Massachusetts and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
In Sydney, Australia, she completed her Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Fellowship requirements at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. Her PhD studies investigate the effects of obesity and under breathing on cognitive function and cardio-metabolic parameters.
Dr Sivam is also a part time Respiratory and Sleep Physician within the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Cystic Fibrosis Service.

Yu Hwee underwent her specialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology (FRANZCOG) in New Zealand, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. She is a subspecialist urogynaecologist working as part of the public urogynaecology team at Gold Coast Health and the Queensland Pelvic Mesh Service as well as in private in Brisbane as part of Queensland Pelvic Floor Services with Prof Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause.

A/Prof Roderick Clifton-Bligh is Head of the Department of Endocrinology at Royal North Shore Hospital, and conjoint associate professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney. He completed a PhD in the genetics of thyroid disorders at the University of Cambridge. He now supervises dual research groups, one of which focuses on the genetics of endocrine neoplasms, and the other on metabolic bone disease.

Thomas Crow is a science writer and research communicator with a background in biochemistry. He writes for a number of Australian and New Zealand publications and research institutions, including Scitech WA, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure and the Australian Academic Research Network.

Dr Terri Foran is a Sexual Health Physician and has a special interest in contraception, menopause issues and the management of sexually transmitted infections. She is now in clinical practice in Darlinghurst. She is also engaged in both clinical and research work at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney and holds the position of Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in the School of Women’s and Children’s Health. She coordinates Phase 2 of their undergraduate Women’s Health program as well as supervising a number of modules in the Masters of Reproductive Medicine and Masters of Women’s Health Medicine Programs offered by UNSW.
Prof Susan Davis AO is a consultant endocrinologist at Cabrini Medical Centre and Head, Specialist Women’s Health Clinic for women with complex disease, Alfred Hospital Melbourne. She is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Senior Principal Research Fellow, Professor of Women’s Health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (since 2004) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Prof Davis has made a leading contribution to the understanding of the role of androgens and oestrogens in multiple non-reproductive target tissues including the brain (cognition, mood, sexual function), cardiovascular system (lipids, vascular function and coagulation) and other tissues (fat, muscle, joint cartilage and bone). She has published over 450 peer-reviewed manuscripts, has been an invited lecturer to over 200 international conferences and presented 100 distinguished plenary lectures.
A/Prof John Eden is a certificated reproductive endocrinologist and gynaecologist. He is a Conjoint Associate Professor at The University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is a visiting medical officer at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, Australia where he is Director of the Sydney Menopause Centre and the Barbara Gross Research Unit. Until recently he worked at the Moree Aboriginal Health Service. John is a Director of the Women’s Health and Research Institute of Australia (WHRIA). This is a private clinic located in Bathurst St, Sydney which has a large multidisciplinary group of health practitioners offering clinical and research services. He is a member of the Breast Cancer MDT at Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick.
Dr Rosie King is a sexual health physician with 30 years of clinical experience treating and managing a wide range of distressing sexual and relationship issues that can be medical, physical, relational, psychological or a combination. Her practice is in St Leonards and she sees individuals and couples to provide sex and relationship therapy.

Merryn is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and NHMRC Early Career Fellow based at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. Merryn is an experienced paediatric food allergy dietitian. Her research is focused on the long-term effects of early life dietary patterns and the prevention and management of food allergy.

Dr Alexander Padiglione is an Infectious diseases physician based at both Monash Medical Centre and The Alfred Hospital. He is a graduate of Monash University and also did his PhD in epidemiology there. His specific interest are in ICU and critical care infections and travel medicine, and has also spent over 25 years treating patients with HIV.

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