Working Group
COSA Fertility Preservation Guidelines Working Group
COSA thanks the following people for volunteering their time and expertise to develop these guidelines:
Associate Professor Catharyn (Kate) Stern, MBBS FRCOG FRANZCOG CREI (Co-Chair)
Head of Unit, Reproductive Services
Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne and Melbourne IVF
Dr Antoinette Anazodo, MBBS, FRACP, MRCPCH, PHD, Diploma Adolescent Health (Co-Chair)
Paediatric & Adolescent Oncologist, Sydney Children's Hospital & Prince of Wales Hospital
Director, Sydney Youth Cancer Service
Lead Clinician, Youth Cancer NSW/ACT
Dr Catherine Allingham MD BSc (Hons) BMedSci
Research Officer
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Natalie Bradford, PhD MPH Bnur
Principal Research Fellow
Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland
Dr Wanyuan Cui, MBBS BMEDSCI FRACP
Medical Oncologist
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria
Dr Rebecca Deans, MB BS, M Med (Reproductive Health and Human Genetics), FRANZCOG, CREI
Gynaecologist,Reproductive Endocrinologist and Fertility Specialist
Royal Hospital for Women & Sydney Children's Hospital, University of New South Wales Randwick
Professor Roger Hart, MD FRANZCOG FRCOG CREI
Professor of Reproductive Medicine, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital
Medical Director of Fertility Specialists of Western Australia
Dr Tamara Hunter, FRANZCOG CREI
Certified Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Subspecialist
Fertility Specialists of Western Australia
Associate Professor Yasmin Jayasinghe, MBBS, FRANZCOG, PhD
Senior Research Fellow and Consultant Gynaecologist
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Melbourne and the Royal
Children's Hospital, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
Dr Stefan C. Kane, MBBS BA BMedSc FRANZCOG CMFM DDU(O&G)
Consultant Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialist Obstetrician
Head of Fetal Medicine Unit, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne
Dr Lei Shong Lau
Program Manager
Fertility Preservation Service, The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne
Dr Shanna Logan, BA Arts (Anthropology)/ Bsc Psych (Hons 1), D. Psych (Clinical), PhD
Clinical Psychologist, Fertility Counsellor
FUTuRE Fertility Research Team, Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick.
Fertility & Research Centre, Royal Hospital for Women School of Women and Children's Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Professor Robert McLachlan AM, FRACP PhD
Consultant Andrologist
Medical Director, Healthy Male (Andrology Australia)
Director of Clinical Research, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Monash University
Dr Kristen Neville, MBBS (Hons 1), PhD, FRACP
Endocrinologist
Department of Endocrinology, Sydney Children's Hospital and Faculty of Women's and Children's Health, University of NSW
Dr Michelle Peate PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Women’s Hospital, University of Melbourne
Dr Marianne Phillips, MBCHB FRCP FRCPCH FRACP
Consultant Paediatric and Adolescent Oncologist and Palliative Care Physician
Perth Children’s Hospital, Perth, Western Australia
Dr Carla Saunders, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Health Services Management
University of Technology Sydney
Marianne Tome
Clinic Manager, Melbourne
Genea
Dr Rita Upreti, MBChB PhD FRACP
Consultant Endocrinologist
Clinical Andrology Service, Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Endocrinology Unit, Monash Health
Professor Kate White, PhD MN (Res) FRNCA
Clinical Chair Cancer Nursing Sydney Local Health District and University of Sydney, NSW
Guideline development team
Dr Jessica Harris (Writer/editor/literature review)
Project Manager
COSA
Additional assistance from Dr Hayley Griffin in the project development stage is acknowledged.