Leong Milton
Prof. Milton Ka Hong Leong was brought up in Hong Kong, finished his basic school years, and then went to attend McGill University in Montreal Canada. He did Honours Biochemistry as an undergraduate, and then Medical School. Further postgraduate training in Obstetrics and Gynecology followed, and he obtained his specialist degree in 1974. He then went to London on a McLaughlin Fellowship granted by the Canadian Royal College where he studied under Professors Richard Beard and Stuart Campbell. Returning to Montreal, he joined the McGill University Department as academic staff, was active in teaching, and also headed the High-Risk Obstetric Unit.
In 1979 Prof. Leong returned to Hong Kong and engaged in private practice. Seeing a need at that time, he started to concentrate on the study and treatment of Infertility. He set up the IVF Centre at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, a private hospital, in joint venture form, and with his partner Dr. Clement Leung, they built it up to be one of the most successful IVF clinics in Asia and the world. He “made” and delivered the first IVF baby in Hong Kong in 1985, and in the last 20 years has researched, published, and taught the art and science of infertility and assisted reproductive techniques.
Prof. Leong is a member of various reproductive medicine societies and various international committees. He lectures widely, and still plays an active academic role, and remains to be an Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in McGill University. His current interest is how to provide the optimal treatment for infertile patients using a patient-orientated, more holistic approach.
Shoham Zeev
Prof. Shoham was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. He received his M.D. degree from the Hadassah Medical Center in 1981. Later completed, his residency at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, and his fellowship in infertility and in vitro fertilization at Tel - Hashomer Hospital and MIDDLESEX Hospital in London, UK. Since 1988 he has specialized in a wide range of treatments including fertility treatments, in vitro fertilization, oocyte retrieval preservation and freezing, donor eggs, and sperm, care for women during pregnancy, and follow-up and treatment of postmenopausal women. In 1991 Prof. Shoham received an award from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology for the best scientific research that year in Europe for his work on stimulating sperm production by adding GH to treatment with gonadotropins in patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Since 2013 Prof. Zeev Shoham has served as the head of the Fertility and IVF Unit at the Kaplan Medical center in Rehovot, Israel. During his career, Prof. Shoham has published over 140 papers in the field of Reproductive Medicine, and his publications have won international awards. In addition, he has contributed chapters to numerous books. He is the editor/ author of the textbook, Female Infertility Therapy: Current Practice (1999), and one of the four editors of the textbook, Assisted Reproductive Techniques, which is in its fourth edition. Prof. Shoham is the co-founder of IVF-Worldwide the most comprehensive website on in-vitro fertilization. Prof. Shoham has been organizing international medical conferences for the past 18 years and is a lecturer in many conferences in the field.
