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What are the key steps involved in the IVF process?
Here, highly experienced, skilled, and qualified consultant gynaecologist, Mr Michael Ella...
MrMichaelEllard is a highly respected consultantgynaecologist based in Wirral and Chester. He specialises in IVF, fertilityassessment and eggdonation. He is also renowned for his expertise in menopause, miscarriage and polycysticovaries (PCOS).
Mr Ellard qualified in medicine from Queen’sUniversityofBelfast in 1992 and later relocated to England to pursue further training. During this period, he established a dedicated eggdonationservice at the RoyalUnitedHospital in Bath, where he was based for some time to undergo specialist training in IVF. He completed his specialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology in the Mersey region and was appointed as a consultant at Wirral UniversityTeachingHospitals in 2005, where he would go on to establish the centre’s fertilityservice. Mr Ellard provides a number of highly specialised services, including a dedicated recurrentmiscarriageclinic and a satelliteIVFservice which is run in partnership with Liverpool’s esteemed Hewitt Centre. Additionally, he holds the position of clinicalserviceleadforwomen’sservices at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals. Mr Ellard combines his extensiveclinicalexperienceandexpertise with a holisticapproach to delivering patient care in order to achieve the best outcomes. He sees privatepatients at SpireMurrayfieldHospital,Wirral and CareFertilityChester.
Mr Ellard is a leading name in medical education and is trainingprogrammedirector for senior obstetrics and gynaecology trainees in the north west of England. He is a member of a number of esteemed societies, including the BritishFertilitySociety and the EuropeanSocietyofHumanReproductionandEmbryology. He is also a fellow of the RoyalCollegeofObstetricsandGynaecology and is actively involved in research. Mr Ellard is an editor for the BritishJournalofHospitalMedicine.

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