Seminars 2011


Seminar timings and bookings will be released towards the end of the spring. If you would like to kept updated with the seminar programme please complete the registration form on the site and we will notify you when the bookings are open.

If you have any questions or suggestions about the seminar programme please contact [email protected]


Inseminar: Egg-sharing and donor insemination

Dr Kamal Ahuja, Managing & Scientific Director, The London Women's Clinic

Crisis, what Crisis? Donor sperm from the London Sperm Bank
Ms Toyin Jegede, Donor Recruitment & Campaign Officer, The London Sperm Bank

Looking after yourself before and after conception
Mrs Anya Sizer, Fertility Support Co-ordinator, The London Women’s Clinic

Lesbian and single mothers: Using a known sperm donor

Ms Venessa Smith, Sperm Bank Manager, The London Women’s Clinic

Family ties and the law: Singles, gays and lesbians 
Ms Natalie Gamble & Ms Louisa Ghevaert, Partners - Gamble & Ghevaert

Celebrating difference – Different families in schools
Director of Public Affairs - Ruth Hunt, Stonewall
Stonewall will discuss their work with schools on how to include the many different types of families in their teaching. It will cover the many resources Stonewall have developed and how parents can get them into their child’s school.

Gay Dads - From Adoption to Surrogacy

Ruth Hunt, Director of Public Affairs, Stonewall, and Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE of Dawson Cornwell.
All the information men need to know when making a decision to become a parent.  The seminar will be based on ground breaking research from Stonewall’s ‘Guide for Gay Dads’ launched in 2010.

Single mothers by choice
Ms Susanna Graham, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge

Changing perceptions of alternative families

Professor Susan Golombok, Director, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge

Searching for donors and donor siblings: What shall we tell the children?
Dr Tabitha Freeman, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge

Sperm Banking in the 21st Century
Peter Bower, Ph.D. Director of the European Sperm Bank
Sperm banking has advanced and matured over the past Century. Sperm donors are today tested and screened for many diseases. Sperm is quarantined and the follow-up on successful or unsuccessful use of a donor’s sperm are important factors in operating a sperm bank. Legislative requirements, namely the EU Tissue Directive and individual country requirements, give rise to quite complicated market segmentation. Furthermore, patients are becoming autonomous in choosing a sperm donor. This gives the patient an excellent opportunity to participate. Single women seeking donor insemination is a growing group utilizing these possibilities.
 
Dissolution of Civil Partnership and Pre-Nuptials

Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE of Dawson Cornwell.

Surrogacy 101: how surrogacy can work for you
BSC Director Neil Kelly, surrogate mother Donna Calabrese and Barrie Drewtt-Barlow
The British surrogacy Centre is the biggest independantly run surrogacy centre of its kind in the UK. It was also the first centre to open and has the longest established team of surrogacy experts, anywhere in Europe. This seminar will explore the ins and outs of surrogacy and will take you throughthe process from start to finish. The aim for the delegates / audience is to provide all the information needed to do a successful surrogacy and to get to the end point of bringing your baby home. The seminar will cover all aspects of surrogacy both in the UK and abroad, covering both the positive and negatives sides of surrogacy. It will also cover legal concerns both on the emigration side for babies born outside of the UK and for parental agreements sought in the UK.

Medical aspects of surrogacy: The procedures for egg donor and surrogates going through surrogacy along with the IP medicals.
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow BSC & Sarah Pallett Bourn Hall
This seminar will beheld by the British Surrogacy Centre and the world famous clinicians fromthe Bourn Hall. Bourn hall was the first clinic in the World to develop IVF and the first baby, Louise Brown was born there. Experts will talk about the procedural part of the IVF process and the commitment needed from the surrogate / egg donor and IP during the medical parts. This seminar will also cover legal aspects of the medical side and include a talk about Bourn Halls history and IVF  STATS.