Dr Georges-Antoine de Boccard

Dr de Boccard obtained a state diploma in medicine at the University of Geneva in 1979. He became a Doctor of Medicine, specialising in Urology in 1992. In the same year he sat the European Board of Urology examination. After training in vascular surgery in Paris, in 1983 he specialised in masculine fertility microsurgery and currently carries out microsurgical vasectomy reversals as well as vasoplasties and microsurgery of the epididymis. He is carrying out research into testicular spermatozoa before in-vitro fertilisation as a potential cause of male sterility (TESE, MESA with a view to ICSI). He is a consultant at the Sterility Clinic of the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (Geneva University Hospitals) where he manages infertile men. He is also in charge of the Fondation genevoise (Geneva Foundation) teaching programme for lecturing and medical research (www.gfmer.ch).
Having set up in private practice, he is actively involved in the Centre for medically assisted procreation at the Clinique Générale Beaulieu (Clinique Générale-Beaulieu).