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Endometriosis Zone editorial advisor
Stephen Kennedy, MA (Oxon), MD, MRCOGNuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford, England Stephen Kennedy, MA (Oxon), MD, MRCOG, is Clinical Reader in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Green College, Oxford. He is also an Honorary Consultant Gynaecologist at The Women’s Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and a Consultant in the Oxford IVF Unit. He qualified at Guy’s Hospital, London, in 1984, having graduated from Keble College, Oxford, with a degree in Experimental Psychology. His training was obtained at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, London, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. In 1991, he was awarded the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG) Thomas Eden Travelling Fellowship and spent time as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. He held the posts of Research Fellow (1986-89), Clinical Lecturer (1992-94), and Senior Fellow in Reproductive Medicine (1994-99) in the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford, before being appointed to the post of Clinical Reader in 1999. His research interests in endometriosis include genetic epidemiology, health services research, development of new diagnostic tests, and clinical drug trials. In 2001, his group developed the EHP-30, the first disease specific, patient generated quality of life questionnaire in endometriosis. He jointly heads an international research group, which aims to identify the genes that predispose women to develop endometriosis. He is a medical adviser to the American Endometriosis Association, which is a national, patients’ self-help group. He is the author of a number of chapters and academic papers about endometriosis, and has edited a book entitled ‘Chronic Pelvic Pain’. He chairs an Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals’ Trust working party on surgical consent. He has helped to prepare clinical guidelines on the investigation and treatment of endometriosis for the RCOG, and is preparing similar guidelines for the RCOG on the management of chronic pelvic pain.
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