Professor Bill Ledger

Biography

Professor Bill Ledger is 48, and lives in Sheffield and is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust.

He has a long standing interest in scientific aspects of infertility and assisted reproduction and is a member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Endocrinology and British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a referee for Human Reproduction, Human Fertility and Fertility and Sterility.

He is also chair of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologist (RCOG) Examinations Committee and has extensive experience in the development of new methods for standard setting and examining professional attitudes.

Appointment until: 6 November 2009

Personal interests

Consultancies and/or direct employment: Member Advisory Board - Ferring Ltd.

Fee-paid work other than that associated with the HFEA: Honoraria for various academic presentations at scientific meetings.

Shareholdings: Director of Lifestyle Choices Ltd.

Other Public Appointments: None.

Other:

• Chair - Examination Committee, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Research funding from Akzonobel, Ferring and Pfizer.