The centre regularly opens its doors for our very popular open evenings at which anyone is welcome to view the facilities and find out more about our fertility services.
During January - March 2012 we have a series of Guest Speaker Evenings to replace our conventional Open Evenings. These Guest Speaker evenings have been organised to coincide with the Launch of our new Fertility Spa website which will be launched in January 2012. Please click here to download our Guest Speaker Evening Poster
As you can see we have invited three prominent speakers who will join us at the Herts and Essex Fertility Centre to share with us their knowledge and advice relating to nutrition, coping strategys and male factor infertility.
We look forward to you attending these evenings but ask that you book as soon as possible as we are expecting high interest in all three of these events. You can book either by email to enquiries@hertsandessexfertility.com stating which talks (s) you would like to attend and the number of seats that you would like to book. There is no charge for the evening and refreshments will be provided.
Parking is free and we located just of Jnc 25 of the M25
The Fertility Centre's staff will be present throughout the evening, so please come along and make use of this opportunity to see our centre, our services and most of all to have an informative evening.
I have profided profiles of the speakers below with relevant web links for your information.
We look forward to seeing you there.
You can book to come to this event in one of two ways:
On the telephone by calling : 01992 78 50 60
Or by email to : enquiries@hertsandessexfertility.com
Venue : The Herts and Essex Fertility Centre.
 Dr Marilyn Glenville
Dr Marilyn Glenville PhD is a registered member of the Nutrition Society, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, psychologist, author and broadcaster who obtained her doctorate from Cambridge University.
Marilyn has studied and practised nutrition for over 25 years, both in the UK and in the USA, focusing on the natural approach to female hormone problems. Today she is recognised as the UK’s leading nutritionist specialising in women’s health.
With her special interest in the female hormone cycle, Dr Glenville frequently works with women who suffer menstrual problems such as heavy periods, painful periods, PMS, fibroids, PCOS and endometriosis, and who wish to work on a nutritional approach to these problems. Dr Glenville also helps couples who are having difficulty conceiving or having recurrent miscarriages.
As well as being asked to speak at the House of Lords and to give a presentation at The Royal Society of Medicine, Marilyn is also regular speaker on the international circuit. She is the author of 9 internationally bestselling books many of which have become the standard reference books for practitioners and have sold over 500,000 copies worldwide.
- The New Natural Alternatives to HRT,
- Osteoporosis – the Silent Epidemic,
- Fat Around the Middle,
- Healthy Eating for the Menopause,
- Natural Alternatives to Dieting,
- Natural Solutions to Infertility,
- Overcoming PMS the Natural Way,
- The Nutritional Health Handbook for Women,
- and her latest book Getting Pregnant faster.
We are delighted to have links with Marilyn who is the nutritional advisor for the Herts and Essex Fertility Centre and we as a team endorse her products and books for the benefit of our patients.
 Kate Brian
Kate Brian began her career at the BBC as a News Trainee, and went on to work on Panorama before leaving for ITN. She spent ten years at ITN, working mainly on Channel Four News as a specialist producer covering Home Affairs.
Kate wrote her first book, In Pursuit of Parenthood, giving the patient perspective on IVF, after going through fertility treatment herself. Her second book, The Complete Guide to Female Fertility, was published by Piatkus in 2007, and a third, The Complete Guide to IVF in 2009. Kate is currently working on a new book due out next year.
Kate has been awarded for her work for Infertility Network UK and continues to work closely with the charity. Kate is editor of The Journal of Fertility Counselling and also writes freelance features and edits a parenting website.
Kate writes a blog that gives all the latest news and views on fertility issues, as well as useful advice and links for anyone trying to have a baby.
We are delighted to have Kate Speak at our centre, as a team we care very much with how patients manage their emotions and anxieties and Kates presentation will undoubtedly provide some skills and strategies in coping with the roller coaster experience of Fertility Treatment.
http://www.katebrian.co.uk
 Dr Allan Pacey
Dr Allan Pacey is the Senior Lecturer in Andrology at Sheffield University. In addition to his academic duties, he is also the Head of Andrology for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals where he directs a busy clinical andrology laboratory and am in charge of the sperm banking service.
His research interests are in the biology of human spermatozoa and aspects of semen quality and fertility in males. In recent years, his research has focussed on how micro-organisms such as Chlamydia interact with sperm and affect sperm function.
In the search for better diagnostic methods in the clinic, he has recently collaborated with engineers from the University of Glasgow and applied modelling techniques used in fluid mechanics to better understand how sperm swim. This paper was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics in 2008 and shows that swimming speed is closely related to the side and shape of the sperm head.
In 2012 Allan becomes the Chair of the British Fertility Society, he is a scientific editor of a number of peer reviewed journals and he has been an active member of an Advisory Group to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority as part of their 'Donation Policies Review'. In addition he has appeared or advised on a number of TV and Film documentaries
Allan is a prolific twitterer and you can catch him at @allanpacey
Current Projects
Immediate and longer-term consequences for men who bank sperm prior to cancer treatment.
Trans-national reproduction: an exploratory study of UK residents who travel abroad for fertility treatment.
A pilot study to investigate the interaction between cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and human spermatozoa.
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