Hilary Critchley
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Hilary Octavia Dawn Critchley | |
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| Education | University of Manchester |
| Occupation(s) | medical doctor and academic |
| Medical career | |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Sub-specialties | obstetrics and gynaecology, reproductive medicine |
Hilary Octavia Dawn Critchley FRSE FRSB FMedSci FFSRH FRCOG FRANZCOG is a Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist. as of 2014[update], she is the Professor of Reproductive Medicine and an Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Edinburgh.
Critchley earned a B.S. (1978) and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (1981) from the University of Manchester. She earned the degree of Doctor of Medicine, also from the University of Manchester, in 1991.[1]
Career and research
She was appointed as the Head of School of Clinical Sciences in August 2012. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals.[2]
Critchley's research focusses on local uterine mechanisms involved in menstruation and implantation, and addresses the mechanisms common to those reproductive processes – injury and repair, endocrine–immune interactions and regulation of inflammatory mediators. A particular area of interest has been the local endometrial response to withdrawal of progesterone, both physiological and pharmacological.[2][3]
Awards and honours
In 2019, Critchley was one of the women in science profiled in an exhibit presented by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[4] In 2021, the Society for Reproductive Investigation awarded Critchley with the DeCherney Society LIfetime Distinguished Service Award.[5] She was the Society for Reproduction and Fertility's Distinguished Scientist Lecturer in 2020.[6]
She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2012)[7][8] and the Academy of Medical Sciences (2009).[9]
