Professor Dame Lesley Regan

Having graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, in 1980 Lesley pursued her career at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, where she first became enthused by clinical and laboratory research, completing an MD on miscarriage. Professor Dame Regan combines her clinical and research work on recurrent miscarriage and uterine fibroids with a passion for communicating to the wider public, writing two successful books on miscarriage and pregnancy for the general reader and presenting a series of eight BBV ‘Horizon’ documentaries. In 2015 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from University College London for her contribution to women’s health. Her collaborative approach to women’s health has resulted in her receiving Honorary Fellowships of seven UK specialties and several international Colleges of O&G.

Professor Dame Regan was awarded a DBE for services to women’s health in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List.

Professor Dame Lesley Regan is Honorary Secretary of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) and the Immediate Past President (2016-2019) of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, only the second woman to ever hold this role and the first in sixty-four years. As PROCG, she co-chaired the Women’s Health Taskforce with Caroline Dinenage MP.

Dame Lesley is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College London, Honorary Consultant in Gynaecology at Imperial College NHS Trust. She is also director of Women’s Heal Research Centre, PI of the Recurrent Miscarriage Tissue Bank, and co-director of the UK Pregnancy Baby Bio Bank, and she chairs the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction People and Culture Committee (Athena SWAN).

Professor Dame Regan is also Chair of CHARM – the Charity for Research into Miscarriage and Chair of Wellbeing of Women (WoW).