The Business of Egg Freezing: From Bluster to Best Practice

This Progress Educational Trust event discusses how egg freezing relates to patient interests and business interests. More details in the full description below. ↓↓↓

This event was held online on 11 March 2021, and was produced by the Progress Educational Trust in partnership with University College London's Institute for Women's Health. See their websites at https://www.progress.org.uk/ and https://www.ucl.ac.uk/womens-health/

The event was also sponsored by CooperSurgical. See its website at https://fertility.coopersurgical.com/

INTRODUCTION
• 0:00:00 - Sarah Norcross (Director, Progress Educational Trust)

PRESENTATIONS
• 0:05:25 - Rachel Cutting (Director of Compliance and Information, HFEA)
• 0:15:37 - Dr Zeynep Gurtin (Lecturer in Women's Health, University College London)
• 0:27:41 - Dr Lucy van de Wiel (Research Associate, University of Cambridge)
• 0:38:57 - Eileen Burbidge (Founding Partner, Passion Capital)
• 0:51:56 - Marcia Inhorn (Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University)

DISCUSSION
• 1:06:41 - Responses to audience questions and comments

This event received additional sponsorship from:
• The British Fertility Society. See https://www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/
• CooperSurgical. See https://fertility.coopersurgical.com/
• The London Egg Bank. See https://www.londoneggbank.com/
• The University of Cambridge's Reproductive Sociology Research Group. See https://www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk/
• Combined Academic Publishers. See https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/
• Reproduction and Fertility. See https://raf.bioscientifica.com/
• The Society for Reproduction and Fertility. See https://srf-reproduction.org/

This film of the event was made by Video Production Edinburgh. See its website at http://www.videoproductionedinburgh.co.uk/

In her introduction at the beginning of this film, Sarah Norcross refers to a different film - which can be viewed at https://youtu.be/Vql33OUwZKs - of a presentation given by Sharon Jones at an earlier PET event.

If you are interested in this topic, please consider signing and sharing PET's online petition - see https://www.change.org/extendthelimit - calling for an extension to the 10-year storage limit for eggs frozen for non-medical reasons.