Prof. Silke Dyer, SOUTH AFRICA

Professor Silke Dyer (FCOG, FRCOG hon, Ph.D.) is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and reproductive medicine subspecialist. She is the Director of ANARA, the African Network and Registry for Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Clinical Data Director of the International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ICMART). She serves on the Science and Technology Advisory Group, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, of the World Health Organization; and the Education Committee of the International Federation of Fertility Societies. She is in full-time clinical and academic practice working at Groote Schuur Hospital, a level three referral center in the public-academic health sector of South Africa, where she is Head of the Division of Gynaecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She is also a full professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. Prof Dyer’s clinical and academic work is driven by the desire to improve infertility- related reproductive health services and access to care and through this the quality of life of infertile people. Her research, regional activity, and international engagement are focused on registries monitoring utilization, availability, effectiveness, and safety of ART, the delivery of fertility care in low-resource settings, and the psychological and socio- cultural experience of infertility.