Our new team will guide you through the entire process from start to finish. They will work closely with you to ensure everything flows smoothly. In addition they will help coordinate and facilitate each step of your treatment process and will act as a liaison between the donor and the recipient.
Graham Coull - Donor Programme Manager
Graham, the Laboratory Manager at Sims IVF, is now also the Manager of our Egg Donation Programme. Graham joined Sims as a senior embryologist in October 2003, became laboratory manager in 2007, and has fully contributed to the continued success of the Sims fertility programme.
Because of the close link between the laboratory and the successful outcome for our patients, Graham also became the Donor Programme Manager in August 2010. His role is to work with the co-ordination team in assisting patients throughout the programme whilst ensuring high standards of care and excellent success rates.
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Deirdre Gorman - Nurse Donor Coordinator
After school Deirdre completed a Diploma in Nursing through UCD and St. Vincent’s University Hospital. Deirdre graduated in 2001 and worked for 18 months in a general medical and surgical unit. She then moved to the Coombe Women’s Hospital in Dublin where she trained as a midwife and qualified with a H.Dip from the Coombe and UCD in 2005. Deirdre has worked at Sims as an IVF nurse since 2008 gaining considerable experience and has sinced moved to become one of the two nurse donor coordinators of the EDE programme.
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Kathleen Chada - Nurse Donor Coordinator
Kathleen graduated as a Registered Fertility Nurse from Kingston Hospital in 1992. She spent several years working in Saudi Arabia where she first gained her fertility nursing experience and returned to Ireland in 2002 when she joined the SIMS Clinc. Kathleen worked as the Nurse Manager at SIMS from 2004 until 2007 when she left to join the Kilkenny Clinic.
She returned to SIMS in 2010, joining the Egg Donation Program and has considerable experience in egg donation having co-ordinated donor cycles for couples undergoing treatment throughout Europe and America.
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