Our Team
Meet the Team:
We provide comprehensive services including Assisted Reproductive Techniques and Minimally Invasive Surgeries all under one roof. Our practice is restricted to treating infertile patients exclusively, and, we offer our patients the very best medical care- at affordable prices. The Rotunda Blue Fertility Clinic and Keyhole Surgery Center is an ISO 9001-2000 certified center.
If you have done IVF at another clinic, have you got upset that a different doctor attended your procedures each time? Are you forced to talk to a number of different nurses, with no real direction ? Are you having trouble getting the feedback or explanations you need ? At Rotunda Blue Fertility Clinic and Keyhole Surgery Center, all the treatment , including the consultation, all the ultrasound scans, egg collection and embryo transfers are done personally by either Dr Gautam Allahbadia or any members of his team. The buck stops with us - and we don't delegate any part of your delicate and critical IVF treatment to anyone else !
At Rotunda, we recognize the importance of the healthcare team functioning as a coordinated unit in the overall treatment plan. Each member of the Rotunda staff, from the physicians to the egg donor coordinator, plays a critical role in providing the high-level of reproductive healthcare that our patients have come to expect at Rotunda. We acknowledge the skills and contributions of each team member and support education, outreach and research to enhance our staff's knowledge and further the field of reproductive healthcare.
Meet our Medical team
Dr. Gautam Allahbadia MD, DNB, DGO, DFP, FCPS, FICMU, FICOG, FNAMS Gautam N Allahbadia, MD is the Director of Rotunda Blue Fertility Clinic & Keyhole Surgery Center, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, India. He is also the Medical Director at the Rotunda -The Center for Human Reproduction, the world-renowned infertility clinic at Bandra, Mumbai, India. He is a noted world authority on ultrasound guided embryo transfers and and one of the pioneers in third party reproduction in South-East Asia.
He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications to his credit and is on the Editorial Board of several International Journals. Throughout his career, Dr Allahbadia has been instrumental in developing new fertility-enhancing protocols and propogating the use of ultrasound in embryo transfer procedures.
The development of a highly successful egg donation program at Rotunda has made it possible to achieve pregnancies in women who have premature ovarian failure. Dr Allahbadia was responsible for India's first trans-ethnic surrogate pregnancy involving a Chinese couple's baby delivered by an unrelated Indian surrogate mother.
He also has to his credit India's first Same-Sex Couple pregnancy and delivery of twins. At Rotunda and Deccan, patients may avail themselves of a myriad of reproductive options ranging from in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), Donor Egg IVF, ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination (IUI), to participation in one of the most successful gestational surrogacy programs in the country.
The Centers provide a full spectrum of state-of-the-art medical and surgical treatment in reproductive endocrinology and gynecology including advanced laparoscopic surgery, tubal reconstruction, and minimally invasive USG-guided therapeutic procedures. Dr Allahbadia and his world-class team of reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists, andrologists and infertility specialists have helped hundreds of couples have babies through assisted reproduction.
Dr Allahbadia has had quite a prolific career -- he has authored over 100 scientific papers, 60 book chapters and 13 textbooks, the latest of which is a comprehensive text, entitled "Embryo Transfer" available from Jaypee Medical Publishers. He directs two franchisee satellite IVF programs in India at Jalandhar and Ahmedabad. He was a lecturer for over four years at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College followed by a 12 year tenure at the University of Mumbai affiliated Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences before going full time into private practice. He is the recipient of over 25 prizes & fellowships in the field notable among which are the Canadian Young Scientist Fellowship Award for the year 1994, which allowed him to train in Infertility at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and the National prize Dr Kumud Tamaskar award for original research work in infertility in the year 1991. He is the recipient of six research grants from the International College of Surgeons and the Medical Research Centre of Bombay Hospital Trust.
He has been an invited guest speaker or faculty member at over 70 Congresses, Workshops and Scientific Meetings. He was awarded the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst fellowship for the year 1996 to train in Assisted Reproductive Techniques in Germany. He has completed his training in IVF/ICSI at the University of Goettingen, Bielefeld IVF Center & the University of Munich. He was awarded the AOFOG-Young Gynecologist Award for the year 1998. He is the Web Master for the SISAB (Society of Indian Scientists Abroad) Website on the Internet (www.sisab.net). He has been awarded the most prestigious FOGSI-CORION National Research award for best original research work in Infertility at the 42nd All India Obstetric & Gynecological Congress held at Hyderabad in December 1998. He has recently been elected as the General Secretary of the World Association of Reproductive Medicine (WARM) headquartered in Rome, Italy and was the Scientific Chairman of the 2nd World Congress of WARM held in Rome in May 2004. He has organized seven International Congresses in the subject and was recently made a visiting lecturer to the University of Tel Aviv- Sackler School of Medicine - the first Indian to be given such a position.
Click here to read Dr. Allahbadia's Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Sneha Sathe
Dr. Sneha Sathe recently joined at Rotunda as Clinical Associate. She completed the MBBS program of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences with distinction from K.J. Somaiya Medical College Mumbai in the year 2004. Therafter she completed her Master of Surgery in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the prestigious Manipal University with flying colours in 2008.
Immediately after completing her studies she moved to Mumbai and has completed short stints at the Hinduja Hospital, Nowrosji Wadia Maternity Hospital and the Sion Hospital.
She is deeply committed to her profession and looks forward to contributing substantially in the development of the activities of the center and fulfillment of aspirations of the center’s clientele. Dr. Sneha enjoys listening to music, sketching, reading books and watching movies in her spare time.
Click here to read Dr. Sneha Sathe Curriculum Vitae
Dr Shilpa Saple
Dr Shilpa Saple has trained from Grant Medical College, Mumbai and was awarded M.D. in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in July 2003.She has been actively associated with the Research Society of Grant Medical College during her tenure and has many paper publications to her credit. She has an extensive exposure to handling gynaecological emergencies on account of working at the periphery . She completed the Fellowship and was awarded a Diploma in Gynaecological Endoscopy in December 2007. Thereafter, she had been practising gynaecological endoscopy and has performed various advanced laparoscopic surgeries at several private hospitals in Mumbai.
She has also conducted workshops for corporate offices like Accenture , gynaecological checkup camps and health education for teens at schools and Colleges .
Since December 2009, she has been closely involved with infertility investigations and treatment. She has also gained expertise in egg donation and surrogacy.
Her stress busters are reading and classical Hindustani music .
Click here to read Dr.Shilpa's Curriculum Vitae
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Dr.Shrutika Kamath-Thakkar has recently joined the Rotunda team. She has done her post graduation in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the prestigious Sir J.J.Group of hospitals and Grant medical college, Mumbai. She was privileged to complete her undergraduate studies and one year rotatory internship from King Edward VII Memorial (K.E.M) Hospital & Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai. Prior to joining Rotunda, she was working as an Assistant Professor at the prestigious King Edward VII Memorial Hospital & Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai and was involved with undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
She has a keen interest in Clinical Research, Ultrasonography and Reproductive medicine. She has completed a certificate course in Clinical Research in Department of Pharmacology, Seth G.S. Medical College and K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai under the aegis of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik. She has also done a course in Ultrasonography and pelvic imaging accredited by the Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India.
She is a member of Mumbai Obstetrics and Gynecological Society and has been an active participant in numerous national and international conferences. She has won the best paper presentation award for 3 consecutive years at the annual MOGS conferences held from 2008 to 2010. She was also awarded the best poster award at the Central Asia Regional Conference organized by AMWI in the year 2010.
She believes that fertility treatment is a boon to society and has dedicated her services to the cause of creating families. Her message to those who are seeking fertility treatment is
“Begin difficult things while they are easy. Do great things while
they are small. The difficult things of the world must once have been easy. The great things must once have been small.
A thousand mile journey begins with one step. Start today”
Minimally Invasive Surgery Team
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Pritesh Naik |
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Rajendra Sankpal |
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Ameya Padmawar |
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Yogen Bhatt & Associates
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Laboratory Director |
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Biologist |
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Biologist Sejal Vaidya |
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| Andrologists Vijay Kulkarni |
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| Andrologists Rupin Shah |
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| Endocrinologist Shashank Joshi |
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| Pathologists Avinash Phadke |
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| Pathologists Vandana Phadke |
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| Physician Sandeep Karembelkar |
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| Radiologist Dr Mukund Joshi |
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