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Our Team |
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We provide comprehensive IVF services , all under one roof, so patients don't need to shuttle from clinic to lab to the scan center. Our practice is restricted to treating infertile patients exclusively, and, we offer our patients the very best medical care - at affordable prices. We are India's first ISO 9001-2000 certified IVF clinic (certified by QAS, Standards Australia).
If you have done IVF at another clinic, have you got upset that a different doctor attended your procedures each time? Are you forced to talk to a number of different nurses, with no real direction ? Are you having trouble getting the feedback or explanations you need ? At Rotunda-The Center For Human Reproduction, all the treatment ( including the consultation, all the ultrasound scans, egg collection and embryo transfers are done personally by either Dr Gautam Allahbadia or Dr Kaushal Kadam. The buck stops with us - and we don't delegate any part of your delicate and critical IVF treatment to anyone else !
At Rotunda, we recognize the importance of the healthcare team functioning as a coordinated unit in the overall treatment plan. Each member of the Rotunda staff, from the physicians to the egg donor coordinator, plays a critical role in providing the high-level of reproductive healthcare that our patients have come to expect at Rotunda. We acknowledge the skills and contributions of each team member and support education, outreach and research to enhance our staff's knowledge and further the field of reproductive healthcare.
Meet our Medical team
Dr. Gautam Allahbadia MD, DNB, DGO, DFP, FCPS, FICMU,
FICOG, FNAMS
Gautam N Allahbadia, MD is the Director of Rotunda -The Center
for Human Reproduction, the world-renowned infertility clinic
at Bandra, Mumbai, India. He is also the Medical Director
at the Deccan
Fertility Clinic & Keyhole Surgery Center, Shivaji Park,
Mumbai, India. He is a noted world authority on ultrasound
guided embryo transfers and and one of the pioneers in third
party reproduction in South-East Asia. He has over 100 peer-reviewed
publications to his credit and is on the Editorial Board of
several International Journals. Throughout his career, Dr
Allahbadia has been instrumental in developing new fertility-enhancing
protocols and propogating the use of ultrasound in embryo
transfer procedures. The development of a highly successful
egg donation program at Rotunda has made it possible to achieve
pregnancies in women who have premature ovarian failure. Dr
Allahbadia was responsible for India's first trans-ethnic
surrogate pregnancy involving a Chinese couple's baby delivered
by an unrelated Indian surrogate mother. He also has to his
credit India's first Same-Sex Couple pregnancy and delivery
of twins. At Rotunda and Deccan, patients may avail themselves
of a myriad of reproductive options ranging from in vitro
fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI),
Donor Egg IVF, ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination
(IUI), to participation in one of the most successful gestational
surrogacy programs in the country. The Centers provide a full
spectrum of state-of-the-art medical and surgical treatment
in reproductive endocrinology and gynecology including advanced
laparoscopic surgery, tubal reconstruction, and minimally
invasive USG-guided therapeutic procedures. Dr Allahbadia
and his world-class team of reproductive endocrinologists,
embryologists, andrologists and infertility specialists have
helped hundreds of couples have babies through assisted reproduction.
Dr Allahbadia has had quite a prolific career -- he has authored
over 100 scientific papers, 60 book chapters and 13 textbooks,
the latest of which is a comprehensive text, entitled "Embryo
Transfer" available from Jaypee Medical Publishers. He
now directs five franchisee satellite IVF programs in India
at Jalandhar, Srinagar, Rewari, Gorakhpur and Ahmedabad. He
was a lecturer for over four years at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal
Medical College followed by a 12 year tenure at the University
of Mumbai affiliated Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical
Sciences before going full time into private practice. He
is the recipient of over 25 prizes & fellowships in the
field notable among which are the Canadian Young Scientist
Fellowship Award for the year 1994, which allowed him to train
in Infertility at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
and the National prize Dr Kumud Tamaskar award for original
research work in infertility in the year 1991. He is the recipient
of six research grants from the International College of
Surgeons and the Medical Research Centre of Bombay Hospital
Trust. He has been an invited guest speaker or faculty member
at over 70 Congresses, Workshops and Scientific Meetings.
He was awarded the
prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst fellowship
for the year 1996 to train in Assisted Reproductive Techniques
in Germany. He has completed his training in IVF/ICSI at the
University of
Goettingen, Bielefeld IVF Center & the University of Munich.
He was awarded the AOFOG-Young Gynecologist Award for the
year 1998. He is the Web Master for the SISAB (Society of
Indian Scientists Abroad) Website on the Internet (www.sisab.net).
He has been awarded the most prestigious FOGSI-CORION National
Research award for best original research work in Infertility
at the 42nd All India Obstetric &
Gynecological Congress held at Hyderabad in December 1998.
He has recently been elected as the General Secretary of the
World Association of Reproductive Medicine (WARM) headquartered
in Rome, Italy and was the Scientific Chairman of the 2nd
World Congress of WARM held in Rome in May 2004. He has organized
seven International Congresses in the subject and was recently
made a visiting lecturer to the University of Tel Aviv- Sackler
School of Medicine - the first Indian to be given such a position.
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Dr. (Mrs) Kaushal Kadam, MD,
Director of Oocyte Donation
Dr. (Mrs) Kaushal Kadam, became a member of the medical
team of Rotunda from January 2002. She has earned her medical
and the bachelors degree from the Topiwala National Medical
College and B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital affiliated to
the University in Mumbai. During her OB/GYN residency training
her active interests were in Infertility and Reproductive
Endocrinology. She has also done a training course in "Ultrasound
Imaging in Obstetrics and Gynecology".
She is at present a member of the Mumbai
Obstetrics and Gynecological Society(MOGS) and a Fellow
of Gynecological and Obstetrical Society of India. She is
also a member of the European Society for Human Reproduction
and Embryology. She supervises the IT services at the Center
& her research interests include the immunology of early
pregnancy loss, mechanics of embryo transfer and ectopic
pregnancies.
Dr. Kadam has one child and enjoys drawing
walking and traveling.
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Dr Sulbha Arora, MD, DNB Clinical Associate
Dr Sulbha Arora became a member of
the medical team of Rotunda in 2004. She has earned her Bachelor
of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the KJ Somaiya
Medical College, Mumbai and has done her MD in Obstetrics
& Gynaecology from Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences,
affiliated to the University of Mumbai. She has subsequently
obtained her Diplomate National Board (DNB) Certificate for
Obstetrics & Gynaecology from the National Board of Examinations,
New Delhi.
During her residency, her active interests were in the fields
of Infertility, Minimally Invasive Surgery and High Risk Pregnancy.
In addition to being the Clinical Associate at Rotunda, she
also works as a Clinical Associate at the Prince Aly Khan
Hospital IVF Center and the Aesculap Academy for Minimally
Invasive Surgery, Training & Research at Mumbai.
She is at present a Member of the Mumbai Obstetrics and Gynaecological
Society (MOGS) and a Fellow of The Obstetrics and Gynaecological
Society of India (FOGSI). She is also a member of the European
Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). Her
research interests include Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome, Endometriosis
and Ectopic Pregnancy. She has an active academic interest
and regularly participates in the meetings and courses conducted
by ESHRE as well as Indian organizations. She has contributed
a number of chapters for books on various topics related to
infertility. She has been actively involved in the Organizing
Committee of two major ART congresses and is the Joint Organizing
Secretary of the World Congress on Fallopian Tubes, to be
held at Kolkata in October 2007. She has also been the Course
Coordinator for ten hands-on training workshops in gynecologic
endoscopy conducted at the Aesculap Academy, Mumbai and has
conducted a number of IUI training programs for doctors.
Apart from her work, she also enjoys literature, music and
traveling.
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Mrs. Goral Gandhi MSc Laboratory
Director
Mrs. Goral Gandhi is the Laboratory
Director and coordinates the ART Laboratory services like IVF,
ICSI and Human Sperm Banking Service at Rotunda - the Center
for Human Reproduction. She has more than 9 years experience
in the field and has trained in Belgium and the Egyptian IVF
Center, Cairo.
In addition to being the Laboratory Director at Rotunda, she
has helped set up the laboratories at Rotunda's satellite centers
and provides ART Laboratory services there. She is the management
representative for the ISO 9001-2000 quality assurance standards
program implemented at Rotunda, Bandra.
Mrs. Gandhi received a Masters degree from University of Bombay
for her research on "Quality Control in Laboratories." She has
instituted many laboratory technological changes that have contributed
to improved pregnancy outcome. She maintains her professional
skills by regular participation in meetings and courses offered
by the European Society for Human Reproduction and similar organizations.
Her research interest is in the area of embryo growth and selection,
embryo freezing and assisted hatching.
She enjoys literature, traveling and being with her two children.
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