She was a late recruit to medicine having first read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University and then worked as a Government Statistician. A television documentary encouraged her to change careers to medicine and she qualified in 1986. A chance meeting with Professor Robert Edwards (the 'test tube' baby pioneer) introduced her to the new world of IVF and since 1991 she has specialised in Reproductive Medicine.

For 10 years she was Clinical Research Fellow at the Oxford Fertility Unit, where her research interests included Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, premature ovarian failure and recurrent miscarriage. She lectures and broadcasts on ethical issues in reproductive medicine and is Chair of the British Fertility Society Ethics Committee.

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