Dr Hrishikesh Pai

DR HRISHIKESH PAI, MD, FCPS, FICOG, MSc, is one of the country’s leading gynaecologist. His preeminence in the field of Gynaecology enabled him to achieve the premier position as the Present Secretary General of the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) which is one of the largest organization of professional doctors in the country consisting of 33,000 Gynaecologists. Previously Dr Pai was the Senior Vice President of FOGSI in 2006. Dr Pai is also the pioneer in the field of Infertility and IVF since 1991. He presently is the Director of the Bloom IVF Group which runs nine IVF centres all over India including Lilavati hospital & Bhatia hospital Mumbai and Fortis Hospitals in New Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida, Mohali and Navi Mumbai. In order to enable poor patients to have access to advanced services, Dr. Pai has also got an IVF unit in the D Y Patil Medical College. He has been the first doctor in India to introducenumerous innovations in medical fieldssuch as assisted laser hatching, spindle view, ovarian tissue freezing for cancer patients, oocyte freezing, IMSI and embryoscope. In appreciation of his enormous contributions, the international agency Frost & Sullivan bestowedupon him the best IVF group in India award in 2013. Additionally he was elected by his colleagues to the highest positionin IVF – the Immediate Past President ofthe Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction (ISAR). In appreciation of his work Dr. Pai hasgot elected as the Member – Board of Directorsof the World body of Infertility namely International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS): a first for an Indian.