Rajvi H Mehta PhD

Academic Consultant, CooperSurgical Fertility and Genomic Solutions

Rajvi Mehta started her doctoral studies at the ICMR’s Institute for Research Reproduction, Mumbai working with the team responsible for India’s first ‘scientifically’ documented IVF baby led by Dr. T.C Anand Kumar and Dr. Indira Hinduja in 1986. Her research focused on the studies on the oocyte and its follicular environment. She worked as a clinical embryologist and is now involved in teaching and training in ART. She has been the faculty on the special ART courses conducted by the IFFS in Esfahan, Iran. She has been the visiting faculty on clinical embryology at the Chettinaad Health University, Chennai, India.

She has received the Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction (ISAR) young scientists award in its year of inception and recently received the Champion of ISAR and the President of ISAR’s commendation Award. Rajvi has contributed to many chapters in textbooks on AR, she is the co-editor of the ICMR’s first manual on Human Semen Analysis and Human IVF. Rajvi is also an invited speaker at many conferences.

She is a member of the Executive committee of Academy of Clinical Embryologists, India. She leads the Special Interest Group on Holistic Medicine for the Indian Fertility Society. As an ardent practitioner of Iyengar Yoga she presented a lecture on yoga at the ESHRE annual meeting in Munich, 2015.

Rajvi Mehta is currently the Academic Consultant at CooperSurgical, India