Steve has worked in the field of human clinical embryology for nearly 35 years starting in Manchester, where he completed a PhD in male infertility and the acrosome reaction. Before his recent role as the Scientific Director of IVI UK, Steve was the Scientific Director of Liverpool Women’s Hospital’s Hewitt Fertility Centres, one of the UK’s largest providers of assisted conception. In addition to dealing with the many day-to-day ‘hands-on’, managerial and research responsibilities of a Consultant Clinical Embryologist, he is fortunate to have been afforded a broader perspective as a Scientific Inspector and advisor for the UK Regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Steve has been very much involved in clinical embryology as a profession and is proud to have been both Chair and President of the UK’s Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE) and a founder member of the newly formed Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists (ARCS). Steve is a Visiting Reader in Reproductive Medicine at Edge Hill University, and as an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Liverpool, he supervised the development of the UK’s first equine ICSI lab.

Steve now works independently as a Consultant Reproductive Scientist based in the UK.