HFEA Annual Conference 2007

Improving practice to Manage Risk

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is holding their annual Conference on 5 June 2007 in central London.

The HFEA Annual Conference brings together experts from across these areas to allow delegates to stay ahead of the latest thinking on these changes.

The programme will include sessions on:

• the future of fertility legislation and regulation,
• the role of counselling in treatment,
• multiple births,
• incident handling,
• hybrid and chimera research and
• an analysis of 15 years of data of treatment and outcomes from the HFEA Register.

Annual Conference Programme (22 Kb)

 

Conference presentations

 

Session 1 - Framework for the future: Developments in legislation and regulations

Phil Willis MP (268 Kb)

Shirley Harrison (16 Kb)
Chair of the HFEA

 

Session 2 - Frontiers in research: The hybrid and chimera question

Dr Keith Campbell (1.3Mb)
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham

Dr Calum Mackellar (58Kb)
Director of Research, Scottish Council on Human Bioethics

Veronica English (49 Kb)
Deputy Head of Medical, British Medical Association

 

Session 3 - Talking it through: The importance of counselling for appropriate treatment

Jennifer Hunt (224 Kb)
Senior Fertility Counsellor, IVF Hammersmith, HFEA member

Clare Brown (326 Kb)
Chief Executive, Infertility Network UK

Dr Mark Hamilton (429 Kb)
Honary Senior Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, British Medical Society

 

Session 4 - The best possible start to life: Issues around multiple births and embryo transfer

Yacoub Khalaf (1 Mb)
Consultant Gynaecologist, ACU, Guy's Hospital

Jan Holte (227 Kb)
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Helene Torr (229 Kb)
Regional Organiser, Infertility Network UK

 

Session 5 - Managing risk through learning: How the HFEA handles incidents

Sephanie Sullivan (1 Mb)
Head of Clinical Governance, HFEA 

 

Session 6 - A decade of improvement: An analysis of 15 years of data from the HFEA Register

David Tellis and Hossam Abdalla (242 Kb)
Director of Information, HFEA and Director, Lister Clinic and HFEA member