Dr Yulia Gurtovaya graduated from Pirogov Moscow State Medical University in 1990. She underwent residency first at the Center for Mother and Child Health Care in Moscow, and then in the U.K. where she was trained as a consultant and worked as an obstetrician and gynecologist at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, Royal Berkshire and Stoke Mandeville and other large hospitals. Yulia is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a certified colposcopist, she also holds a certificate in open and laparoscopic abdominal surgery and has a Family Planning Clinic diploma.
Yulia is currently a consultant gynecologist at NHS West Middlesex University Hospital in London, where she routinely performs complex laparoscopic and open gynecological surgeries, hysteroscopy (diagnostics and treatment of uterine diseases), colposcopy (examination, smears and treatment of cervical problems) as well as conducting general gynecological examinations.
Dr. Gurtovaya has more than ten years of experience in gynecology, specialising in painful periods, menstrual disorders, endometriosis, transitional age problems (both adolescents menstruation and menopause), chronic pain in lower abdomen, early pregnancies, infertility, reproductive failures and other gynecological disorders. She also advises on personal contraception.