Congratulations!

Our BAS Secretary, Dr Jackson Kirkman-Brown, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours for services to reproductive medical science.

Well done Jackson!

Welcome

The Society is multi-disciplinary and draws its membership from a broad range of backgrounds encompassing not just clinical and laboratory Andrology, but other associated fields such as clinical Urology, Gynaecology, and Veterinary Medicine, together with a wide range of scientific disciplines, including Reproductive Biology, Endocrinology, Cytology, Microbiology and Embryology.

Research plays a prominent role within the Society, with areas of interest including spermatogenesis, semen analyses, sperm function, fertilisation, contraception and cryopreservation and improving outcomes of fertility treatment. 

Training is also a key element and the Society organises and hosts the UK 'ESHRE Basic Semen Analysis Course' which is key training for all those operating in clinical Andrology to the new WHO guidelines.

As the learned society for Andrology, The British Andrology Society has produced guidelines for the laboratories undertaking post-vasectomy semen analyses and the screening of sperm donors.

The British Andrology Society is also involved with the UK NEQAS, a specialist advisory group which is a group involved with the UK NEQAS quality assurance scheme in Andrology.  

The British Andrology Society is closely associated with other reproductive medicine societies such as the British Fertility Society (BFS), Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE), Association of Biochemical Andrologists, the Society for Reproduction and Fertility (SRF) and the European Society of Human Fertilization and Embryology (ESHRE).

The Society also has representatives on the Committees  of the National Gamete Donation Trust (NGDT) and the National Quality Assurance Panel in Andrology (Royal College of Pathologists).

Professor Sheena Lewis

Chairman                     December 2011

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