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Mr Richard Smith, one of the directors and co-founder of 132 Harley Street has been given a special award to mark his contribution to fertility sparing surgery at a ceremony in New York.
Mr Smith, and his research associates Mr Guisseppe Del Priore Research Director of the Downtown Hospital New York and Dr Laszlo Ungar, Chief Gynaecologist at St Stephen's Hospital Budapest, pioneered abdominal radical tracheotomy, the only available form of fertility sparing surgery for women with cervical tumours more than 2 centimetres in size.
The prestigious US organisation, Cancer Fertility, presented the awards to Richard Smith and his colleagues in recognition, not only of the development of this procedure but for their work, both in the US and in the UK, in uterine transplant research. Richard Smith leads the UK Uterine Transplant Research Project.
Mr Smith said he was delighted to have been presented with the award. "This is recognition not just for Guisseppe, Laszlo and I, but for all our colleagues and nursing colleagues who have helped us develop this now internationally recognised procedure and who are continuing to assist us in our research," he said. "We also thank those patients and their families who have supported our research programme for now many women are benefiting from this fertility sparing surgery."