Mr James Nicopoullos

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Mr James Nicopoullos, Consultant Gynaecologist and Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, is the Clinical Director and HFEA Person Responsible for the Lister Fertility Clinic. He is highly experienced in all aspects of reproductive medicine, with a particular interest in those complicated cases the unit is often referred. 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. Mr Nicopoullos began his medical education at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas's. He then undertook specialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology, training in hospitals throughout 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 40 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 regularly speaker at national and international conferences, 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 both the British Fertility Society and HFEA. When time allows he spends his free time as a taxi service for his teenage sons, chasing after tennis balls and obsessively following Arsenal!