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Stephen Kennedy, MA (Oxon), MD, MRCOG
 

Clinical Reader in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford

Head of the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford

Fellow, Green College, Oxford

Honorary Consultant Gynaecologist, The Women’s Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Consultant, Oxford IVF Unit.


Dr. Kennedy qualified at Guy’s Hospital, London, in 1984, having graduated from Keble College, Oxford, with a degree in Experimental Psychology. His training was obtained at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, London, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. In 1991, he was awarded the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG) Thomas Eden Travelling Fellowship and spent time as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.

He held the posts of Research Fellow (1986-89), Clinical Lecturer (1992-94), and Senior Fellow in Reproductive Medicine (1994-99) in the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford, before being appointed to the post of Clinical Reader in 1999.

Dr Kennedy's research interests in endometriosis include genetic epidemiology, health services research, development of new diagnostic tests, and clinical drug trials. He jointly heads an international research group, which aims to identify the genes that predispose women to develop endometriosis.

He is a medical adviser to the American Endometriosis Association and a Trustee of the UK National Endometriosis Society, both of which are national, patients’ self-help groups. He is also a medical adviser to Ferring, Pfizer, Bayer Schering Pharma, TAP and Takeda. He is a member of a working party of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Endometriosis. He is the author of a number of chapters and over 100 academic papers about endometriosis, and has edited a book entitled ‘Chronic Pelvic Pain’. He has prepared clinical guidelines for the RCOG on the management of both chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis, and he is a member of the working party that wrote the ESHRE guideline for the diagnosis and management of endometriosis.

Dr Kennedy is a founding board member of the World Endometriosis Research Foundation and acts as its secretary and treasurer.

 

 


 

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