Miss Rumana Islam

Qualifications

BMBS, BMedSci, MRCOG, MD(Res)

GMC number: 6147435

Practising since: 2006

Specialties

Reproductive Medicine

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Miss Rumana Islam is a consultant Gynaecologist and accredited subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London. She is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the British Fertility Society.

Miss Islam is passionate about treating couples who experience conception delays and difficulties. She also has expertise in egg freezing and complex fertility preservation, being the clinical lead for this service at Barts, as well as a keen interest in managing menstrual disorders and perimenopausal/menopausal symptoms. After graduating from the University of Nottingham in 2006, Miss Islam completed her training in obstetrics and gynaecology in Northwest London including at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital and Chelsea Westminster Hospital. Miss Islam obtained her Wellcome Trust and NIHR-funded MD at Imperial College London and IVF Hammersmith. She completed her subspecialist training in reproductive medicine in Oxford based at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Miss Islam has published her research in high-impact journals such as Human Reproduction and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and has presented her work nationally and internationally.

Special interests

  • Main Interests (must match PPs) *optional Infertility and assisted conception
  • Egg freezing and complex fertility preservation
  • Menstrual disorders 
  • Perimenopausal/menopausal symptoms.
  • Polycystic ovarian syndrome

Languages spoken

English

Treatments and tests offered by Miss Rumana Islam at Nuffield Health

  • Hysteroscopic surgery
  • Hysteroscopy
  • Dilation and curettage (D&C)
  • Hormonal coil
  • Gynaecological biopsies
  • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
  • Smear test (cervical screening)
  • Excision vaginal lumps
  • Endometrial resection
  • Hysterosalpingo contrast sonography (HyCoSy)

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Related experience

Research

Establishing reproductive potential and advances in fertility preservation techniques for XY individuals with DSD (differences in sex development). Islam R, Lane S, Williams SA, Becker CM, Conway GS, Creighton SM. Clinical endocrinology. 2019 Apr.
 
Clinical parameters of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) following different triggers of oocyte maturation during IVF treatment. R Islam2*, A Abbara1*, S Clarke1, Lisa Jeffers1, G Christopoulos1, AN Comninos2, R Salim2, SA Lavery2, TN Vuong3, P Humaidan4, TW Kelsey5, GH Trew2, WS Dhillo1. Clinical Endocrinology. 2018.


A second dose of kisspeptin-54 improves oocyte maturation in women at high risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: a phase 2 randomized controlled trial.  Ali Abbara1,Ϯ, Sophie Clarke1,Ϯ, Rumana Islam2, Julia K. Prague1, Alexander N. Comninos1, Shakunthala Narayanaswamy1, Deborah Papadopoulou1, Rachel Roberts1, Chioma Izzi-Engbeaya1, Risheka Ratnasabapathy1, Alexander Nesbitt1, Sunitha Vimalesvaran1, Rehan Salim2, Stuart A. Lavery2, Stephen R. Bloom#1, Les Huson3, Geoffrey H. Trew2 & Waljit S. Dhillo1, Human Reproduction, 32(9), 1915-1924

The medical and ethical challenges of fertility preservation in teenage girls: a case series of sickle cell anaemia patients prior to bone marrow transplant. Lavery SA, Islam R, Hunt J, Carby A, Anderson RA. Human Reproduction. 2016 Jul 1;31(7):1501-7.
   
Fibroids that do not distort the uterine cavity and IVF success rates: an observational study using extensive matching criteria. Christopoulos G, Vlismas A, Salim R, Islam R, Trew G, Lavery S.. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 2016 Dec 1.
 
 
Prediction of in vitro fertilization outcome at different antral follicle count thresholds in a prospective cohort of 1,012 women. Jayaprakasan K, Chan Y, Islam R, Haoula Z, Hopkisson J, Coomarasamy A, Raine-Fenning N. Fertility and sterility. 2012 Sep 30;98(3):657-63.

Memberships

  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • British Fertility Society
  • British Medical Association
  • Medical Defence Union

Other posts held

  • Consultant Gynaecologist and accredited subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London.

Declaration

Miss Rumana Islam does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.

Miss Rumana Islam does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.

Miss Rumana Islam does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.