Professor Yacoub Khalaf

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Guy's and St Thomas' Private Healthcare
• Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, London Bridge Hospital

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 Sub-specialties

• Assisted conception
• Reproductive medicine
• Dilation and Curettage
• Early Pregnancy Scan
• Early Pregnancy Care
• Endometrial Biopsy
• Hysteroscopy
• Fibroid surgery
• In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)
• Ultrasound
• Myomectomy
• Early Pregnancy
• Endometriosis
• Amenorrhoea
• Fibroids
• Infertility
• Miscarriage
• Male Infertility
• Ovarian Cysts
• Subfertility

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 Positions in public associations

• Director of Guy's & St Thomas' Assisted Conception & Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis Centre
• Expert advisor to the National Institute for Health Care & Clinical Excellence (NICE).
• Executive Officer of the British Fertility Society

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 Teaching posts

• Deputy Director of Subspecialty Training Programme in Reproductive Medicine & Surgery
• Honorary Senior Lecturer, King's College London

 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
• Master of Science
• Doctor of Medicine

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 Publications and conferences

• Dhillon-Smith, Rima K et al. “The Prevalence of Thyroid Dysfunction and Autoimmunity in Women With History of Miscarriage or Subfertility.” The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism vol. 105,8 (2020): dgaa302. doi:10.1210/clinem/dgaa302
• Coomarasamy, Arri et al. “Micronized vaginal progesterone to prevent miscarriage: a critical evaluation of randomized evidence.” American journal of obstetrics and gynecology vol. 223,2 (2020): 167-176. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2019.12.006
• Noli, Laila et al. “Effects of thyroid hormone on mitochondria and metabolism of human preimplantation embryos.” Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) vol. 38,3 (2020): 369-381. doi:10.1002/stem.3129
• Dhillon-Smith, Rima K, et al. Levothyroxine to increase live births in euthyroid women with thyroid antibodies trying to conceive: the TABLET RCT. NIHR Journals Library, October 2019. doi:10.3310/eme06110
• Cimadomo, Danilo et al. “Definition and validation of a custom protocol to detect miRNAs in the spent media after blastocyst culture: searching for biomarkers of implantation.” Human reproduction (Oxford, England) vol. 34,9 (2019): 1746-1761.
• Maheshwari, Abha et al. “Study protocol: E-freeze - freezing of embryos in assisted conception: a randomised controlled trial evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of a policy of freezing embryos followed by thawed frozen embryo transfer compared with a policy of fresh embryo transfer, in women undergoing in vitro fertilisation.” Reproductive health vol. 16,1 81. 13 Jun. 2019, doi:10.1186/s12978-019-0737-2
• Dhillon-Smith, Rima K et al. “Levothyroxine in Women with Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies before Conception.” The New England journal of medicine vol. 380,14 (2019): 1316-1325. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1812537
• Devito, Liani et al. “Comparison of human isogeneic Wharton's jelly MSCs and iPSC-derived MSCs reveals differentiation-dependent metabolic responses to IFNG stimulation.” Cell death & disease vol. 10,4 277. 20 Mar. 2019, doi:10.1038/s41419-019-1498-0
• Kopeika, Julia et al. “Ovarian reserve in women with sickle cell disease.” PloS one vol. 14,2 e0213024. 22 Feb. 2019, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0213024
• Kirkman-Brown, Jackson, et al. Sperm selection for assisted reproduction by prior hyaluronan binding: the HABSelect RCT. NIHR Journals Library, February 2019. doi:10.3310/eme06010

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 Prizes and awards

• Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

 Professional membership

• The Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA) Board
• Chair of The Scientific and Clinical Advances Committee of the HFEA
• Chair of The RCOG National Clinical Studies group in Reproductive Medicine & Surgery
• The RCOG Research Committee
• Executive Officer of the British Fertility Society

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