Mr Rehan Salim is a Consultant Gynaecologist and Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine, and the Medical Director of Lister Fertility Clinic at The Portland Hospital. He graduated in medicine from St Andrew’s University & King’s College London, later completing subspecialty training in reproductive medicine at University College London Hospital. Following this, he was then appointed as consultant at UCLH where he led the Reproductive Medicine Unit, developing the NHS IVF service. He has wide experience in IVF and provides a highly individualised approach to patients, tailor making protocols to achieve the highest pregnancy rates. An area of particular interest is patients who have had previous failed fertility treatment or who are considered poor responders to IVF treatment. Not only this, Mr Salim also has a special interest and extensive experience in reproductive surgery and is able to perform most surgical procedures via minimal access techniques (laparoscopy or hysteroscopy) including myomectomies and excision of endometriosis.
Women are born with all their eggs. Throughout their lives, they will use up these eggs until there are none left; this stage is called the menopause. Although women are born with millions of eggs, the number seems to fall rapidly so that by the time they reach puberty they probably have around 600,000 of […]
