5–9 October 2025
Cape Town International
Convention Centre

5–9 October 2025
Cape Town International Convention Centre

Dr Edgar Mocanu

Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Edgar is a graduate of Iuliu Hatieganu Medical University, Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania. He is an RCOG certified Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery and a Fellow of the RCOG and RCPI. A Consultant at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin and Honorary Associate Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, he engages in providing full clinical care, academic education at under and postgraduate level and contributes to the activities of international organizations such as ESHRE, FIGO and the IFFS.

Edgar holds a Doctor in Medicine degree from Trinity College Dublin, a h-index of 27 and over 150 scientific publications.

Previous and current other international roles include:

IFFS:

  • President, Past Treasurer and Past Audit Committee Chair

ESHRE:

  • Past-Chair of EUTCD Task Force
  • Past-Chair of the European Affairs Committee
  • Chair of the Clinical Science Poster Awards Committee
  • Past-EIM Consortium Steering Committee Member

FIGO:

  • Past-Chair of the FIGO Committee for Reproductive Medicine
  • Chair of the REI Scientific Track for World Congress 2025
  • Co-Editor of IJGO, the FIGO Journal

 

His research interests are in medical education, preventive reproduction, access to fertility care, oncofertility, genetics in male infertility, reproductive surgery and lean services in ART.