Dr. Monika Chawla
Address: Hazza Bin Zayed, the First Street, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Gender: Female
About the Doctor / Professional
Dr. Monika has had extensive academic and clinical experience internationally. She believes in holistic infertility care and provides a whole range of assisted reproductive techniques along with minimal access treatment (laparoscopy, hysteroscopy). She has pioneered the evolving health and fertility awareness and disease management trends in the MENA region for a substantial time period.
Dr. Monika has contributed to the birth of many healthy babies in couples with rare morbid diseases due to consanguineous marriages. She was instrumental in the birth of the first BRCA gene free baby in the UAE through preimplantation genetic testing.
Apart from being skilled in all assisted reproductive techniques, Dr Monika has special expertise in cases such as recurrent IVF failures, repeated miscarriages, chromosomal disorders, endometriosis, polycystic ovaries and poor endometrium.
Dr. Monika has presented papers on controversial subjects in reproductive medicine at the ASRM and ESHRE conferences. Her research work has been published in many international and National journals.
Degree: MD
Residency: Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital, London
- 2020 till date - Consultant, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility (IVF), HealthPlus Fertility & Women's Health Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- 2013 - 2020 - Consultant, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility (IVF), Fakih IVF Fertility Center, UAE
- 2011 - 2013 - Specialist, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility (IVF), Emirates Hospital, UAE
- 2005 - 2011 - Specialist, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility (IVF), NMC Speciality Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- March 2018 - Awarded with the "Distinguished physician award in the UAE"; the biggest and most prestigious healthcare honor in the region celebrating outstanding contributions in the field of medicine.
- Morphokinetic analysis of embryos and preimplantation genetic diagnosis - published in Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics in 2016.
- Endometriosis Treatment
- Infertility
- Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
- Diagnostic Tests
- Egg Freezing
- Egg Retrieval
- Embryo Transfer
- Fertility Assessment
- Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)
- IVF Consultation
- Ovulation Induction
- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
- Reproductive Medicine Consultation
- Chromosomal Abnormalities
- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
- Endometriosis Treatment
- Gynecology Consultation
- High Risk Pregnancy Consultation
- Hysteroscopy
- Infertility
- Laparoscopy
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Consultation
- Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
- Recurrent Miscarriages
- Reproductive Medicine Consultation
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FRCOG)
- Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (MRCOG)
- American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
More Information
- Editor of the text book of IVF "The Art and Science of Reproductive Medicine" published in 2017
- Editorial board of the Global Reproductive health, the official journal of the International Federation of fertility Societies
- Since 2016 - Course director and the faculty of the "Postgraduate course in reproductive medicine", a first of its kind academic program in the UAE in affiliation with the Schelswig Holstein University, Germany