Name and position

Name

and position

• Alison

  Bigrigg is Director of the Sandyford Initiative in Glasgow, Scotland.

  The Sandyford is an integrated Family Planning, Genitourinary Medicine

  and Counselling service which serves a population of approximately 1.5

  million and has over 300 staff. The Sandyford is fully funded by the

  National Health Service.

• Alison

  also acts as an Advisor to the Scottish Executive through her role on

  the National Sexual Health Advisory Committee and various other groups.

• From

  2000 – 2005, Alison Bigrigg was President of the Faculty of Family

  Planning & Reproductive Health of the Royal College of

  Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. This is a professional

  organisation representing over 11,000 doctors working in Family

  Planning. The role of the Faculty is to set Standards, oversee

  training and education in the field as well as promoting

  evidence-based medicine and research.

• Alison

  is 46 years old and married with two children.

ESC

Mandate

She

has been a Member of the ESC since 1997 and a Board Member of the ESC

since 1998.

Area

of expertise/interest

• For

  the past 5 years, Alison has worked full time in Sexual &

  Reproductive Health.

• Prior

  to this, she was a generalist in hospital Obstetrics & Gynaecology

  and held an academic appointment in the University of Bristol.

• She

  has published over 90 articles in peer review Journals.

• Areas

  of research range from new methods of contraception through service

  delivery to the treatment of abnormal cervical cytology.