Dr Antonio Rodrigues

Dr Antonio Rodrigues is a founding member and director of Medfem Fertility Clinic. He is a gynaecologist and obstetrician who qualified at the University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng, South Africa, graduating in 1979. He became a Fellow of the College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists and completed his FCOG in 1989 at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 2000, he was awarded an MBA through Henley Management College London. In addition to his fertility background, Dr Rodrigues is an expert in lifestyle and its effect on fertility in both females and males. Over the past 14 years, he has taken a special interest in the diagnosis and management of time urgency stress in infertile women, with special reference to endometriosis, and has assessed over 4000 patients. He co-launched an online Time Urgency Stress Management Course and a related mobile app. He is also an expert and leader in minimally invasive surgery, and has helped establish Medfem as one of the first institutions in South Africa with a fully comprehensive operating theatre for minimally invasive procedures. Dr Rodrigues is a regular broadcaster, teacher, writer and speaker on infertility, with numerous journal articles, book chapters and international presentations to his name.