Endometriosis Zone editorial advisor

William Leigh Ledger MA DPhil MBChB FRCOG

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The Jessop Wing, University of Sheffield, England

William Ledger is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The Jessop Wing, University of Sheffield. He is Head of the assisted conception service at the Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Fertility of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and an Honorary Consultant of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Professor Ledger is an accredited sub-specialist in Reproductive Medicine, having undertaken training in Reproductive Medicine in Edinburgh after junior hospital posts in Oxford and Sheffield. Before this he took his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1983. Professor Ledger has research interests in very long-term use of GnRH analogues in chronic pelvic pain, in improving patient understanding of endometriosis and pain and in surgical approaches to severe endometriosis. He is part of a multi-disciplinary team at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, which treats women with endometriosis using medical, surgical and psychological approaches.