Artificial Intelligence in Reproductive Medicine & Biology

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Scientific Committee

Jérôme Chambost

Jérôme Chambost

Chief Technology Officer
Apricity – Fertility Reimagined
AI & Technical team
Biography
Sandro C. Esteves

Sandro C. Esteves

Androfert – Andrology and Human Reproduction Clinic
Campinas, Brazil
Biography

· Jérôme Chambost ·

Jerome Chambost received a Master of Engineering from Centrale Paris, France and a Master of Engineering Science and management from the University of Queensland, Australia with a strong focus on data science.

He worked for three years as a senior consultant and data scientist for Roland Bergerspecializing in big data and artificial intelligence projects for the healthcare and Life sciences industries.

He joined APRICITY in 2019 as head of AI to leverage artificial intelligence technologies and improve care, provide transparency and maximise chances of success for fertility treatments with a focus on stimulation and embryology.

He became Chief Data Officer of Apricity in 2021, in charge of accelerating the data transformation of the company and is since 2022 Chief Technology Officer of Apricity, in charge of the artificial intelligence and the technical team, with the goal to design personalize treatments algorithms an implement them in Apricity suite of services for the patients and medical staff.
APRICITY is a virtual fertility clinic. It aims, first, at disrupting the fertility treatment experience and then, at improving chances for women and couples who have difficulties to conceive leveraging data and artificial intelligence. The Apricity project is developed with leading global IVF experts and has been launched in the UK and in Spain to start with.

https://www.apricity.life

Jerome Chambost is also board member of Labelia Labs (formerly Substra Foundation) since 2020. Labelia Labs is a non-profit organization with the mission of developing the positive impacts of Data Science by equipping and promoting collaborative, responsible and trustworthy approaches.


https://www.labelia.org/en/home

· Sandro C. Esteves ·

Sandro Esteves, MD., Ph.D. is a board-certified urologist and consultant in assisted reproduction with over 25 years of clinical experience in all areas of reproductive medicine, with specialization in male reproduction.

He is listed by Expertscape among the top three world experts in the areas of male infertility, azoospermia, varicocele, and sperm retrieval techniques. Sandro has been also included in the list of the world’s most influential scientists.

He is the Founder and Medical Director of the ANDROFERT Andrology & Human Reproduction Clinic, in Campinas, Brazil. Dr. Esteves established the first Brazilian Fertility Clinic with a primary focus on male infertility, as well as the very first to introduce quality management as per the ISO 9001 standards and IVF cleanroom technology (ISO 14644-1).

Sandro is also a Collaborating Professor of Urology at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil) and Honorary Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Aarhus University (Denmark). Dr. Esteves received his Master’s in Surgery from the University of Campinas Medical School and his Ph.D. in Urology from the Federal University of São Paulo Medical School. His post-doctoral training was at the American Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States. He has received many research grants and awards from national and international societies.

Prof. Esteves is the author of 10 textbooks in the fields of infertility and reproductive medicine. He was also the co-editor of several Journal Supplements and has published over 400 hundred scientific papers in journals like Lancet, Nature, Human Reproduction Update, Human Reproduction, Fertility and Sterility, etc. His current Hirsch index (h-index) is 63 while his citation count is over 12K. He is a member of ‘Faculty Opinions’ in the area of reproductive endocrinology & infertility. Dr. Esteves is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Endocrinology (Reproduction), Andrology, International Brazilian Journal of Urology, Regional Editor of the Société Internationale d’Urologie Journal, an editorial board member of Nature Reviews Urology, and a dozen of other peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is also a co-founder of the POSEIDON group and currently serves as a Chair of the Male Infertility Section of the WHO Infertility Guidelines Development Group.

Dr. Esteves is a very much requested speaker and presents over 50 lectures annually. He also regularly conducts infertility workshops, provides consulting services in the area of quality management for ART Clinics,

· Martin O. Savage ·

Martin Savage is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London. He was head of the Paediatric Endocrine Unit at Barts and the London School of Medicine from 1982 to 2007. He has interests in growth disorders, specifically those with abnormalities in the GH-IGF-1 axis and in phenotype-genotype relationships of GH-IGF-1 axis defects, notably GH resistance. He published the first human case of an IGF-1 gene defect in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1996.  His other interests are Cushing’s syndrome and growth in chronic inflammatory diseases. He was General Secretary of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) from 1997 to 2004. He has lectured in 61 countries and has published 472 original articles, reviews, textbook chapters and books. In 2007, he was awarded the ESPE Andrea Prader Prize for contributions to paediatric endocrinology and in 2018 he received a Visionary Award from the American Human Growth Foundation. In 2022, he received a Research Excellence Award from the Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Journal in Riyadh, and the British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes James M. Tanner Lifetime Achievement Award. He continues to lecture nationally and internationally.