Dr Richard Alexander Anderson BSc Hons PhD MB ChB MRCOG MD
Career to date:
Current posts include
Consultant in Reproductive Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Professor of Clinical Reproductive Science, University of Edinburgh.
Richard is a member of
- British Fertility Society
- European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology
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US Endocrine Society
Professional information
Professor Anderson is a consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He completed Subspecialty training in Reproductive Medicine in Edinburgh then spent a year in the University of California at San Diego before taking up a consultant post in Edinburgh.
He specialises in Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology with particular interests in disorders of ovulation and male reproductive function.
Other roles include work for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Scientific Advisory Committee, and for the World Health Organisation and the US National Institutes for Health Contraception and Reproductive Health Branch.
RCOG Specialist Accreditation in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with Subspecialist Accreditation in Reproductive Medicine September 1997
Research interests
Include the hormonal control
Previous appointment
MRC Clinical Consultant Scientist 1998 - 2005. MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, Centre for Reproductive Biology, Edinburgh.
Additional appointments
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Contraception and Reproductive Health Branch, National Institutes for Health, USA.
Vice-chair, RCOG Scientific Advisory Committee.
Member, British Fertility Society Policy and Practice Committee.
Member, Scotland A Multicentre Research Ethics Committee.
Member, World Health Organisation Research Group on the Regulation of Male Fertility
Clinical activity
Weekly outpatient clinics in Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology
Alternate weeks day-case gynaecological surgery, occasional major surgery.
Regular contribution to Royal Infirmary on call rota for Gynaecology
Selected Recent Publications
Martins da Silva SJ, Bayne RAL, Cambray N, Hartley PS, McNeilly AS and Anderson RA. 2004 Expression of activin subunits and receptors in the developing human ovary: activin A promotes germ cell survival and proliferation prior to primordial follicle formation. Devel Biol, 266: 334-345.
Fulton N, Martins da Silva SJ, Bayne RAL, Anderson RA 2005 Germ cell proliferation and apoptosis in the developing human ovary. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 90, 4664-4670.
Anderson RA & Cameron DA 2007 Assessment of the effect of chemotherapy on ovarian function in women with breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 25 1630-1631.
Anderson RA, Weddell A, Spoudeas HA, Douglas C, Shalet SM, Levitt G & Wallace WHB (2008) Do doctors discuss fertility issues before they treat young patients with cancer? Human Reprod in press
Anderson RA, Wallace WHB. Uncertainties in preserving fertility in cancer treatment. BMJ 2008;337:a2577.