Stuart Lavery

Mr Stuart Lavery is Divisional Clinical Director of Women’s Health at UCLH and Consultant Gynaecologist and Specialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery. He is also an honorary associate Professor at UCL and an honorary senior lecturer in Reproductive Medicine at Imperial College London. He is a founder Director of Aria.

Previously Mr Lavery was Director of IVF Hammersmith and a founder Director of The Fertility Partnership –the largest provider of assisted conception services in the Northern Europe. He has been a Clinical Director both in the NHS and in the private sector for 20 years.

Mr Lavery is widely acknowledged as an expert leader in fertility treatment and has an international reputation. He often is referred the most medically challenging patients from heart and lung transplant programmes, renal and cardiac clinics for fertility treatment.

Mr Lavery is recognised as a key opinion leader and serves on the advisory boards of pharmaceutical companies, and technology companies investing in this sector. Mr Lavery is also an experienced reproductive surgeon with regular operating lists for hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgery.

Academically Mr Lavery’s main research areas of interest are fertility preservation, preimplantation genetic testing and IVF. He has presented on these topics both nationally and internationally, and published over fifty articles in this area. He is a module lead for the Imperial College MSc course, and is a lecturer for the University of Oxford and ICRF.

From a regulatory perspective Mr Lavery has served on the HFEA licensed Clinics Panel, as an HFEA ‘person responsible’ and as a Clinic Licence Holder.  Mr Lavery is a member of the BMA, ASRM, MRCOG, ESHRE and is on the meetings committee of the BFS.