Abstract
Giuseppe Benagiano speaks to Claire Attwood, Commissioning Editor
Professor Giuseppe Benagiano’s scientific interests have been in reproductive medicine, obstetrics and gynecology and public health. His early work focused on placental enzymes and the feto-placental unit. Then, for years, he focused his attention on contraception. More recently, his research activities have expanded to gynecological disorders of endocrine origin, such as endometriosis, adenomyosis and leiomyomata, and he has pioneered the use of GnRH analogues for these conditions. Over the last decade, he has dedicated himself to the issue of bioethics, published a number of essays on bioethics of reproduction and became coeditor of a special supplement of Reproductive BioMedicine Online called ‘Ethics, Bioscience and Life’. In recognition of his scientific achievements, he has been appointed Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University (OH, USA) and at the Peking Union Medical College University, Honorary Professor at the Health Science Center of Peking University (Beijing, China) and Professeur Associé at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Benagiano is Honorary Fellow of the American and Indian Colleges of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He is past President of the International Society for the Advancement of Contraception and of the Italian Society for Clinical Sexology, past Secretary General of FIGO (the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) and past Vice-President of the Italian Society of Pathophysiology of Reproduction.
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