MR NWORA MELIE

Nwora Melie was trained as an embryologist by Dr Virginia Bolton and her team from the King’s College Hospital London between 1999 and 2001 at The Bridge Clinic Lagos, Nigeria. With the support of the founder, now Vice Executive Chairman of The Bridge Clinic, Dr Richard Ajayi, he obtained his Masters degree in Clinical Embryology from the University of Leeds UK in 2003. He played an active role in the ISO 9001-2000 accreditation of The Bridge Clinic Lagos in 2004.

Nwora currently works at Fertility Exeter; Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom. He joined the unit, then known as Peninsular Centre for Reproductive Medicine in 2007 as a senior embryologist and took on the role of quality manager in 2009. He is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the UK body that regulates 15 health and care professions, under the protected title of Clinical Scientist. He is a Diplomate of the Royal College of Pathologists (DipRCPath) in the UK.

Nwora is a member of the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists (ARCS) in the UK, American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). He is also on the board of trustees, as well as a member of the advisory board of the Clinical Embryologists Association of Nigeria (CEAN).

He has a special interest in quality management in IVF.

Can the title of my presentation be changed to:

Quality IVF Laboratories in Nigeria-Approaches to Equitable Accessibility