Topic: Use of GH in ART
Christos A. Venetis MD, MSc (Res), MSc (HCM), PhD, FRANZCOG, CCSST ReproMed (EBCOG/ESHRE)
Assistant Professor, Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Senior Consultant Gynaecologist and Fertility Specialist
Global Head of Clinical Research, Virtus Health
Christos is a Senior Consultant Gynaecologist and Fertility Specialist, an Assistant Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at University of New South Wales, Australia.
Prof. Venetis is also the Global Head of Clinical Research for Virtus Health, one of the largest organizations of ART services globally.
His research has attracted more than 1.5 million dollars in funding in the last 5 years.
He has been named in the top 1% of most cited researchers worldwide in Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine for 2021. He is an author of >115 publications in international scientific journals (h-index: 42, >7800 citations, Google Scholar), of several chapters in books and has been an invited speaker in >200 international scientific meetings. He has co-edited a textbook on the evidence-based management of Recurrent Implantation Failure.
For many years he has been a passionate advocate of evidence-based medicine in his field and has been serving as a member of the editorial board of Human Reproduction since 2008. He is also currently a Section Editor for RBM Online, for Reproductive Biology & Endocrinology, an Associate Editor for F&S Reviews, Reproductive Sciences and for Fertility & Reproduction.
He regularly lectures in national and international postgraduate (MSc) courses, and he is currently a course coordinator for the MSc in Human Reproduction (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and a convenor for the MSc in Reproductive Medicine (University of New South Wales).
He has also held several leadership positions, including being a Director for the Board of the Fertility Society of Australia and New Zealand (2019-2023) and the Deputy Chair of the Research Grants Committee of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG).
His research interests include ovarian stimulation, endometrial receptivity, reproductive epidemiology and the health of mothers and babies after ART. He is currently leading a number of research projects in these fields both nationally and internationally and is mentoring junior colleagues.