Rotunda
Rotunda conveniently provides comprehensive IVF services in all one facility, so that patients re not bothered with being shuttled from clinic to lab and scan center.
Our practice is restricted to exclusively treating infertile patients, offering them the best medical care at affordable rates. Rotunda is India’s first ISO 9001 – 2000 certified IVF center. What makes Rotunda unique is that your entire IVF process is carried out by the doctor rather than passing things on to other IVF staff members.
At Rotunda, we recognize the importance of our health care team functioning as a coordinated unit in the overall treatment plan. Each member of the Rotunda staff, from the physicians to the egg donor coordinator, plays a critical role in providing the high-level of reproductive healthcare that our patients have come to expect at Rotunda. We acknowledge the skills and contributions of each team member and support education, outreach and research to enhance our staff's knowledge and further the field of reproductive health care.
At Rotunda, we deal with all aspects of male and female infertility. We have one of the largest Human Sperm Banking facilities in India. We also do long-term sperm Cryopreservation for cancer-afflicted young men.
The process with Rotunda is simple. When you arrive, you will have a consultation with Dr. Gautam. You should bring with you any information or documents from previous undergone IVF treatments to show the doctor.
A clear schedule will be laid out after the initial consultation that will describe each and every step to be taken throughout the entire process. We have a multimedia conference room that is set up for the patients to watch patient education videos.
Success Rates
What makes our success rates higher than other clinics is that we transfer more than two embryos to patients who have a difficult time conceiving. In the UK and Australia the number of transferable embryos is limted by law to a maximum of two. Transferring more than two embryos increases the risk of multiple pregnancy, however this is not the case in some patients who have a difficult time getting pregant (e.g. women over 40 or women who have undergone IVF before with unsuccessful results). At our clinic, we believe that the number of embryos to be transferred should be customized according to each patient's unique case, rather than following a guideline that has been set for the general population. We make it a point to consider each and every patient's specific problem.
Contacting previous patients of ours
We have a long list of patients from all over the world who came to Rotunda for IVF treatment. It is sometimes comforting to speak to someone who has done this before and to listen to a third person perspective about the clinic you are considering for your IVF treatment. We welcome this and encourage you to contact our international patients.
Please contact us at contact@visitandcare.com to request a list of our patients' names and e-mail addresses.
Why is IVF much less expensive in India than the US?
Even though we use the same technology, medical equipment and culture medium as IVF labs in the US, doctors in India charge alot less than their colleagues in the west, because India is still a developing country.
Our comprehensive services include:
* Consultation
* Diagnostic Workup
* Diagnostic Laparoscopy
* Diagnostic Hysteroscopy
* Semen banking
* Embryo Cryopreservation
* Testicular Tissue Cryopreservation
* IVF, including laser assisted hatching and blastocyst transfer
* Egg and embryo donation
* ICSI, including PESA and TESA
We also have a surrogacy program that is a quarter of the price of surrogacy programs in the west.
Our clinic is LGBT friendly!
Rotunda Staff
Dr. Gautam Allahbadia
 Dr. Gautam Allahbadia, MD is the Director of Rotunda – The Center for Human Reproduction, the world-renowned infertility clinic at Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Dr. Allahbadia is also the Medical Director at the Deccan Fertility Clinic & Keyhole Surgery Center, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, India, and a world authority on ultrasound guided embryo transfers. He is one of the pioneers in third party reproduction in South-East Asia.
Dr. Allahbadia is the first doctor in India to have treated a same-sex couple pregnancy and delivery of twins.
Dr Allahbadia has had quite a prolific career -- he has authored over 100 scientific papers, 60 book chapters and 13 textbooks, the latest of which is a comprehensive text, entitled "Embryo Transfer" available from Jaypee Medical Publishers. He directs two franchisee satellite IVF programs in India at Jalandhar and Ahmedabad. He was a lecturer for over four years at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College followed by a 12 year tenure at the University of Mumbai affiliated Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences before going full time into private practice. He is the recipient of over 25 prizes & fellowships in the field notable among which are the Canadian Young Scientist Fellowship Award for the year 1994, which allowed him to train in Infertility at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and the National prize Dr Kumud Tamaskar award for original research work in infertility in the year 1991. He is the recipient of six research grants from the International College of Surgeons and the Medical Research Centre of Bombay Hospital Trust.
He has been an invited guest speaker or faculty member at over 70 Congresses, Workshops and Scientific Meetings. He was awarded the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst fellowship for the year 1996 to train in Assisted Reproductive Techniques in Germany. He has completed his training in IVF/ICSI at the University of Goettingen, Bielefeld IVF Center & the University of Munich. He was awarded the AOFOG-Young Gynecologist Award for the year 1998. He is the Web Master for the SISAB (Society of Indian Scientists Abroad) Website on the Internet (www.sisab.net). He has been awarded the most prestigious FOGSI-CORION National Research award for best original research work in Infertility at the 42nd All India Obstetric & Gynecological Congress held at Hyderabad in December 1998. He has recently been elected as the General Secretary of the World Association of Reproductive Medicine (WARM) headquartered in Rome, Italy and was the Scientific Chairman of the 2nd World Congress of WARM held in Rome in May 2004. He has organized seven International Congresses in the subject and was recently made a visiting lecturer to the University of Tel Aviv- Sackler School of Medicine - the first Indian to be given such a position.
Curriculum Vitae
Education & Training
POST GRADUATION
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College affiliated to the University of Mumbai
• Achievements: Gold medal in DGO exams
ADDITIONAL DEGREES & FELLOWSHIPS
• Canadian Young Scientist Fellowship Award -- granted him an opportunity to acquire training at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Infertility
• National prize Dr. Kumud Tamaskar award for infertility research
• 6 research grants -- the Medical Research Centre of Bombay Hospital Trust and International College of Surgeons
• Training in ICSI / IVF -- Bielefeld IVF Center, University of Goettingen and the University of Munich.
• AOFOG -- Young Gynecologist Award.
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst fellowship to train in Assisted Reproductive Techniques in Germany
• FOGSI-CORION National Research award
AFFILIATIONS
• Director -- Rotunda-The Center For Human Reproduction (an ISO 9001:2000 certified Fertility clinic)
• Medical Director -- Deccan Fertility Clinic and Keyhole Surgery Center
• Consultant Fertility Physician -- Dr. LH Hiranandani Center For Human Reproduction, Powai, Mumbai
• Scientific Director -- The Prince Aly Khan Hospital Fertility Clinic & the Aesculap Academy, Mazgaon, Mumbai, India
• Vice-President of the World Association of Reproductive Medicine (HQ: Rome, Italy)
• Visiting Lecturer -- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mrs. Goral Gandhi MSc, Laboratory Director
 Mrs. Goral Gandhi is the Laboratory Director and coordinates the ART Laboratory services like IVF, ICSI and Human Sperm Banking Service at Rotunda - the Center for Human Reproduction. She has more than 9 years experience in the field and has trained in Belgium and the Egyptian IVF Center, Cairo.
In addition to being the Laboratory Director at Rotunda, she has helped set up the laboratories at Rotunda's satellite centers and provides ART Laboratory services there. She is the management representative for the ISO 9001-2000 quality assurance standards program implemented at Rotunda, Bandra.
Mrs. Gandhi received a Masters degree from University of Bombay for her research on "Quality Control in Laboratories." She has instituted many laboratory technological changes that have contributed to improved pregnancy outcome. She maintains her professional skills by regular participation in meetings and courses offered by the European Society for Human Reproduction and similar organizations. Her research interest is in the area of embryo growth and selection, embryo freezing and assisted hatching.
She enjoys literature, traveling and being with her two children.
Aaisha Khatoon, MSc, Embryologist
Sakina Kagalwala, MSc, Embryologist
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Mumbai, India
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