ProfessorLesley Regan

Dame Lesley Regan is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College's St Mary's Hospital Campus, and Honorary Consultant in Gynaecology at the Imperial College NHS Trust. She continues her clinical practice in reproductive medicine with particular expertise in menstrual health, recurrent miscarriage and the menopause. Professor Regan co-chairs the People and Culture Committee (Athena SWAN) for the Department of Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction at Imperial. She is a non-executive director on the board of NHS Resolution and an advisor on women's health to the Evelina Hospital group at GSST NHS Trust.

Dame Lesley is the Women's Health Ambassador for England (womenshealthambassador@dhsc.gov.uk) and Past President (2016-2019) of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, only the second woman to ever hold this role and the first in sixty-four years. During her tenure as PRCOG she published the RCOG Better for Women report with the primary recommendation that a National Women's Health Strategic plan was needed to address the growing gender health gap in the UK. This led to a public consultation on Women's Health and publication of the Women's health Strategy for England in 2022. From 2018-2023 she was Honorary Secretary of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO)

Professor Regan is Chair of Wellbeing of Women (WoW), the charity funding research, education and advocacy into every aspect of women's health across the life course. She also Chair of CHARM - the Charity for Research into Miscarriage.

Having graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, in 1980 Lesley pursued her career at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, where she first became enthused by clinical and laboratory research, completing an MD on miscarriage with a training fellowship from the MRC's Embryo + Gamete Research group. Professor Regan combines her clinical and research work on recurrent miscarriage, menstrual disorders and menopause with a passion for communicating to the wider public, writing two successful books on miscarriage and pregnancy for the general reader and presenting a series of eight BBC 'Horizon' documentaries. In 2015 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from University College London for her contribution to women's health. Her collaborative approach to women's health has resulted in her receiving Honorary Fellowships of seven UK specialties and many international Colleges of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.

Professor Regan was awarded a DBE for services to women's health in the 2020 New Year's Honours List.