Consultant Profile

Miss Anastasia Goumenou MD PhD

Practising at: Margate & Canterbury

Specialties: Abdominal and Vaginal Hysterectomy, Diagnostic laparoscopy and dye test, Endometrial ablation, Fibromyalgia, Hysteroscopic resection of polyps and fibroids, Intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), Intra-uterine insemination, In-vitro fertilisation (IVF), Laparoscopic hysterectomy, Lymphoma, Ovulation Induction, Percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration, Testicular epididymal sperm extraction, Tubal Surgery

Special clinical interests:
Endoscopic surgery
Infertility
Reproductive medicine

Current NHS and /or university posts:
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with special interest in infertility and minimal access surgery at the East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust

Year of first medical qualification and medical school attended: 1991

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
British Fertility Society European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy Medical Defence Union

Background Information

Miss Goumenou is a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist with special interests and specialist training in the fields of infertility, reproductive medicine and endoscopic surgery. After training and working in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Greece she has worked in the west Midlands and London hospitals.

Her strong research background and clinical experience have enabled her to publish over 60 research papers, receiving awards and both national and international recognition. In 2001 she received a PhD, awarded with honours, for her extensive research into endometriosis.

Miss Goumenou maintains close links with the University of Brunel London, where she is co-applicant in several research grant proposals and remains involved in on-going research into endometriosis.Her clinical interests are in the fields of in-vitro fertilisation techniques, prevention of OHSS, minimal access surgery and recurrent miscarriages. She provides treatments that are individually tailored to each woman with infertility and gynaecological problems.

Miss Goumenou is an expert in advanced endoscopic surgery for the treatment of endometriosis, adenomyosis, fibroids, pelvic pain, uterine adhesions and ovarian cysts, additionally in outpatient ‘office’ hysteroscopic removal of polyps, fibroids and endometrial ablation. She also specialises in gynaecological-endocrinological problems such as polycystic ovaries and menstrual disorders.

She has completed the RCOG advance training for infertility and assisted reproductive techniques and has been accredited by the RCOG in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery and gynaecological ultrasound.

Miss Goumenou is a Member of the British Fertility Society, European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy and Medical Defence Union.

Miss Goumenou was appointed as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with special interest in infertility and minimal access surgery at the East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust in 2013.