CRC BOSTON IVF HDBK INFERT PDF

Preface

Boston IVF (BIVF) has been one of our country's premier reproductive medicine centers for nearly 25 years.With a long list of "firsts" in New England and in the United States, it has provided leadership in both clinical care and academic medicine.Ten years ago, I joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, as the Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr. Benjamin Sachs, Chairman of the Department, forged new ground and merged Boston IVF with the Academic Department and, as a result, Boston IVF became the Clinical Arm of the REI Division. During my 10 years with Boston IVF and BIDMC, this group became the largest US IVF center developing cutting edge protocols for clinical care and making quality assurance and quality improvement top priorities. At the same time, it opened its doors to education and research, rounding out its mission in reproductive medicine. Becoming the first US IVF program to obtain ISO 9000-2000 certification and being awarded the largest infertility trial at a single center by the National Institute of Health (called the FASTT Trial) are just 2 examples of this mission of excellence. Throughout these past years BIVF clinicians have continually presented data from their extensive database at national meetings and in our medical journals, a process through which they have been able to provide the answers to numerous key questions about infertility care. Now with the second edition of The Boston IVF Handbook of Infertility, Boston IVF clinicians are sharing their expertise, their vast experience, their protocols, clinical algorithms, and the forms they use on a day-to-day basis with other providers of infertility care. From A to Z, this handbook will undoubtedly help you provide your patients with those aspects of contemporary care available in your office as well as an understanding of the processes they will encounter when they are referred on for higher tech care.

It was an honor and privilege for me to work with the clinicians and staff at Boston IVF for nearly a decade. As you read and refer to this handbook, you will soon see why!