Yazan Abdallah

Biography

Yazan Abdallah (MD, MRCOG, Ph.D) grew up in St Petersburg, Russia and Damascus, Syria. He was awarded his degree in Medicine in 2005 and subsequently completed his core specialist training in 2009 in the UK. Academically, in September 2009 he started a 3 year PhD fellowship programme at Imperial College London (Division of Surgery and Cancer) under the supervision of Professor Tom Bourne and Miss Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami. Following this, he won the prestigious National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Award and was appointed as an Academic Fellow at Oxford University in 2011. He was awarded his PhD in July 2014 from Imperial College London where he is currently an Honorary Clinical Lecturer. He has 28 peer reviewed research publications, over 50 international presentations and conference abstracts and he is an invited speaker to a number of international conferences. He led multi-centre research projects in London and collaborated with the Katholieke University Leuven, Belgium, utilising high-technology ultrasound, including 3D and blood flow studies. His work attracted wide-scale international media attention as he introduced novel findings which led to a safer new practice in the early diagnosis of miscarriage in the UK and internationally. His fertility work focused on ultrasound studies of the uterus to predict early pregnancy outcome in women with fertility problems before they become pregnant. He also contributed to the work on immune suppression in uterine transplantation in women with infertility. He also collaborated with the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) group focusing on the use of ultrasound in the diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Yazan additionally contributed to the novel work that led to describing the changes in caesarean scars throughout pregnancy, and related the scar behaviour to the final pregnancy outcome. In fertility preservation, Yazan - working with Dr Cheryl Fitzgerald in Manchester- authored the first UK wide study by the Department of Reproductive Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital on female fertility preservation in cancer patients who are about to have chemotherapy or radiotherapy. He was an Invited Speaker at Fertility 2017 Conference for the British Fertility Society (BFS) at Edinburgh for Fertility Preservation Research. This research outcome was well received and it generated remarkable interest across the UK Clinically, he completed his higher clinical training as a Specialist Registrar in the North West Thames London Deanery and attained his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG). He is currently undertaking his subspecialty training programme in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at Saint Mary's Hospital in Manchester - the first fully NHS funded IVF unit in the UK - where he is training in full range of fertility treatments, leading to his dual accreditation with the General Medical Counsel as a specialist both in Reproductive Medicine as well as Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Research Interest

Medicine