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Consultant Andrologist · MB BCh, DipSurg, MSc, PhD, FECSM, FEAA, FACS
A London-based consultant andrologist with a specialist interest in male fertility. Beyond fertility, his practice spans the full breadth of Andrology, from penile implant surgery to the treatment of Peyronie's disease. Prof Raheem spent more than a decade in the Andrology department at University College London Hospital, one of the UK's leading centres for male fertility, and was a Senior Lecturer at UCL, before establishing his London private practice in 2018. He is also Professor of Andrology at Cairo University, and speaks English and Arabic.
At UCLH he redesigned the pathway for men with no sperm in the semen, cutting waiting times and saving NHS clinic and theatre capacity, and developed a model that predicts who is likely to have sperm found at surgery. He trained urologists sub-specialising in Andrology and gynaecologists in reproductive medicine, from the UK and abroad, several of whom are now consultants, taught on UCL and Institute of Cancer Research master's programmes, and was associate chief investigator for UK multicentre clinical trials in Andrology.
He qualified in medicine at Cairo University in 1999, graduating fifth out of more than 1,000 medical students. At the time, Andrology was a new specialty that few people understood, not even his own parents, who were both doctors. He chose it anyway, seeing its potential and a real chance to make a difference, and followed that passion to the UK for his PhD. Specialist training in Cairo combined with more than a decade at UCLH gives him the best of both worlds.
He knows infertility is rarely just a medical problem. His plans are flexible and personal, built around clear answers and realistic options rather than a fixed pathway.
H I S A P P R O A C H
Cases other clinics see only occasionally, such as nonobstructive azoospermia and redo surgery, are a regular part of his practice.
Diagnosis, surgery, hormone treatment and follow-up stay with him. You tell your story once, and the plan stays consistent.
At UCLH he set up the joint fertility clinic, where Andrology, gynaecology and embryology see couples in one visit. The clinic still runs today.
No two couples get the same protocol. The emotional weight of infertility is treated as part of the care, not an afterthought.
I N N O VA T I O N S
He created a modification to the standard vasectomy, gently sliding the nerves and small blood vessels off the tube so they are left intact, with the aim of reducing the risk of long-term pain.
The first surgeon at UCLH to adopt it for chronic testicular pain, in 2015, and the originator of a modification, tunica vaginalis fenestration, to prevent hydrocele afterwards.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Designed to support the join between the two ends of the tube.
For men with non-obstructive azoospermia, including men in whom no sperm was found at a previous micro-TESE.
To better understand why some men make no sperm, guide diagnosis and counselling, and work towards treatments that target the affected genes.
These are research projects and are not yet available as routine treatments
S P E C I A L I S T S E R V I C E S
For men with no sperm in the semen, sperm can be retrieved on the same day as your partner's egg collection and used fresh, without being frozen and thawed. This matters most when very few sperm are found.
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For men with a good sperm count but high DNA fragmentation, sperm taken directly from the testis usually carries two to three times less DNA damage than ejaculated sperm. It is used fresh for ICSI on the day of egg collection.
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Credentials
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Consultant Andrologist, with more than 25 years' experience in male fertility. GMC number 6090852.
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Male Fertility Consultant at London fertility clinics, including the Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health (2012–2017) and Gennet City Fertility (2017–2024), and at Avenues, London, since 2024.
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Professor of Andrology, Cairo University (Kasr Al-Ainy), teaching medical students, postgraduates, residents, lecturers and nursing staff.
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Former Senior Lecturer, UCL Institute for Women's Health.
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Lectured on male infertility for UCL master's and undergraduate programmes, including the MSc in Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis (2011–2018), the MSc in Urology, the iBSc in Women's Health and the Scientific Basis of Urology course.
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Organised and taught on live surgery workshops and masterclasses for the UCL Institute of Urology from 2008.
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More than a decade in the Andrology department at University College London Hospital (2007–2018), managing complex male fertility cases and training urologists sub-specialising in Andrology, and gynaecologists in the Andrology component of their reproductive medicine training.
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Contributed to UK specialist examinations in urology.
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At UCLH, supervised medical students on their uro-Andrology attachments, trained junior doctors and nursing staff, took part in the urology department's clinical governance meetings, and lectured to GPs.
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Fellow of the European Academy of Andrology, the European Committee of Sexual Medicine and the American College of Surgeons.
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Member of the British Fertility Society, the British Society for Sexual Medicine, and the European and International Societies for Sexual Medicine.
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Member of scientific committees for the European Society for Sexual Medicine, the European Association of Urology and Faculty Opinions.
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More than 150 published articles and book chapters, including research on sperm retrieval in azoospermia and Klinefelter syndrome. See the research.
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Editorial board member of international journals in reproductive health and genital surgery, including Frontiers in Reproductive Health, and reviewer for leading journals including the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Urology, Andrology and Human Fertility.
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Supervised doctoral and master's research on male fertility at UCL, Cairo University and Middlesex University, including PhDs comparing ICSI with IMSI (a joint Cairo University–UCL project, 2018) and exploring men's experience of living with infertility (Metanoia Institute, Middlesex University, 2013), and more than ten UCL MSc projects on surgical sperm retrieval, ICSI outcomes, Y-chromosome microdeletions, chromosome abnormalities in infertile men, and a systematic review of the male factor contribution to recurrent pregnancy loss in natural conceptions (MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine, UCL Institute of Women's Health, 2019).
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Numerous invited lectures on male infertility at international congresses, award-winning research presentations, and talks at public fertility events in London.
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