Lone Schmidt

Lone Schmidt is Associate Professor, MD, DMSci, PhD at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. She has in 2000 established the Copenhagen Multi-centre Psychosocial Infertility (COMPI) Research Programme; an international, cross-disciplinary programme on infertility and assisted reproduction. Her research focuses on reproductive epidemiology, psychosocial consequences of infertility and assisted reproduction, family formation, and prevention of infertility. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters within this field. H-index: 36; citations 3,798. She is teaching pre- and postgraduate medical and public health students in reproductive health with a focus on infertility and family formation. She is member of the WHO Steering Committee for Guidelines and Nomenclature for infertility investigation and treatment; member of ReproUnion, Denmark and Sweden; member of the Working Group on Prevention of Infertility, The Council on Health and Disease Prevention, Denmark; and member of the Fertility Awareness Working Group, Danish Fertility Society.