Prof Richard Alexander Anderson
BSc Hons PhD MB ChB MRCOG MD

 

Speciality: Infertility

Appointments tel: 0131 447 2340

NHS post: Consultant in Reproductive Medicine at The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Career

 

Clinical interests

Infertility and reproductive endocrinology with particular interests in disorders of ovulation and male reproductive function.

 

Training and background

Professor Anderson 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.

Previously Professor Anderson was MRC Clinical Consultant Scientist 1998 - 2005 at the Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, Centre for Reproductive Biology, Edinburgh.

Professor Anderson is currently a Consultant in Reproductive Medicine at The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh as well as professor of Clinical Reproductive Science at the University of Edinburgh.  His 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

 

Professional Memberships

  • British Fertility Society and Practice Committee
  • European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology
  • US Endocrine Society
  • Scientific Advisory Committee, Contraception and Reproductive Health Branch, National Institutes for Health, USA
  • RCOG Scientific Advisory Committee
  • Scotland A Multicentre Research Ethics Committee
  • World Health Organisation Research Group on the Regulation of Male Fertility.

 

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.