Andrology

This section is dedicated to the Special Interest Group (SIG) Andrology. 

The coordinator of this SIG for ESHRE is:

Prof. Sheena E.M. Lewis
e-mail: s.e.lewis@qub.ac.uk 

• Deputy: Willem Ombelet
• Deputy: Stefan Schlatt
• Junior Deputy : Charlotte Heavisides
• Past Coordinators : Roelof Menkveld & Lars Bjorndahl
• SIGA education sub-committee member: Jackson Kirkman- Brown
• International advisor: David Mortimer

The Special Interest Group in Andrology (SIGA) is one of the larger Interest groups in ESHRE with 813 of ESHRE’s 5568 members affiliated to it. Our SIG was founded in The Hague, The Netherlands in 1992 in a breakfast-meeting during the ESHRE Annual Meeting under the leadership of Professor Lynn Fraser, who became its first coordinator.

Mission of the SIG Andrology

To promote scientific and clinical andrology within ESHRE

• improve quality of laboratory andrology
• increase knowledge and interest in clinical andrology among ESHRE members
• collaborate and exchange knowledge with other European Andrology Societies

Activities

1. Provides education through Pre-Congress courses and Campus Workshops

Recent ESHRE campus workshops

• Campus workshop “Linking Clinical to Laboratory Andrology,” Thessaloniki. Greece 1-3 October 2009
• Campus workshop ‘IUI’, Genk, Belgium. 13-16 December 2009
• Campus workshop ‘Sperm and testicular tissue freezing’ Granada, Spain. 25-26 March 2010
• Joint Campus workshop with SIG Psychology and Counselling ‘The Whole Man’ Sevilla, Spain September 2011.

Coming up this year and next

•Joint Campus workshop on ‘The best Sperm for the Best Oocyte’ with SIG Embryology on 6-7 October 2012 , Athens, Greece

•Joint One Day Workshop with ESHRE SIG Andrology and SIG Early Pregnancy, Autumn 2013, Brioni Islands, Croatia
• SIGA workshop at the International Workshop on the Development and Function of Reproductive Organs in 2014 to be organised by Stefan Schlatt

•ESHRE and ASRM postgraduate course Honolulu, HI, 18 to 22 October 2014. to be organized by Sheena Lewis

PRE CONGRESS COURSE ESHRE 2012 Istanbul
Beyond IUI, IVF and ICSI - New developments in the selection and use of sperm for ART 

PRE CONGRESS COURSE ESHRE 2013 London
Is male fertility decreasing? The latest news suggests not……….
Is ART a major part of the solution to Europe’s demographic demise?
Come and debate the issues with the experts!! 

2. Provides certified training courses in Andrology

i)Training in Andrology

Development of Basic Semen Analysis Course: Lars Bjorndahl Lars.Bjorndahl@ki.se
Since 1994, more than 50 courses - in local languages in Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine, Canada

First UK course 2011 Jackson Kirkman- Brown (for details of further courses contact jkirkmanbrown@bham.ac.uk)

Advanced Sperm morphology courses (as in Stockholm, Sweden. 14-16 September, 2009) Lars Bjorndahl Lars.Bjorndahl@ki.se

International External Quality Assessment schemes: Lars Bjorndahl Lars.Bjorndahl@ki.se with more than 50 participating laboratories in Europe, Australia, North and South America, Africa and Asia

Basic Semen Analysis Course in Swedish and English Language
Contact: Lars.Bjorndahl@ki.se

Stockholm, Sweden, June 17-21 2012

Basic Semen Analysis Course in Greek Language
Contact: Theodosia Zeginiadou: zeginiadou@yahoo.gr

Athens, Greece, September 4-7 2012

Basic Semen Analysis Course in Spanish language
Contact: Carmen Mar: MARIADELCARMEN.MARMEDINA@osakidetza.net

Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo
Galdakano, Vizcaya
18-21 September 2012 
 

Basic Semen Analysis Course in Italian language
Contact: Rocío Peña Cotarelo: rochepi@gmail.com

FertiClinic, Rome,
8-11 October 2012

3. Supports the development of Andrology

i) by consensus reports
Advanced Diagnostic Andrology (Human Reproduction, 1996) from Consensus workshop, Hamburg, Germany June 1995
Application of CASA technology (Human Reproduction,1998) from Consensus workshop, Pisa, Italy, 1997)
Sperm DNA: organization, protection and vulnerability: from basic science to clinical applications - a position report from workshop in Stockholm, Sweden in 2010 (Human Reproduction 2010)
ESHRE manual on Basic Semen Analysis (NAFA, 2002)
 

ii) By publication of standardized methods together with the Nordic Association for Andrology (ESHRE Monograph #2, 2002)

iii) By publication of Guidelines for the appraisal of SEMen QUAlity studies (SEMQUA)
Cristina Sanchez [csanchezpozo@gmail.com]
Sánchez-Pozo et al, 2012 submitted to Human Reproduction on behalf of SIGA
 

iv) By text books (A Practical Guide to Basic Laboratory Andrology, Cambridge University Press, 2010)

4. Collaborates with other Andrology societies to refresh and increase knowledge and facilitate networking and collaboration to give added value to research