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Dr. Saleh, Heather and our 5 month old. A little science, a little luck and a whole lot of faith made this possible. THANK YOU SIRM-DALLAS ♥ ♥... Read more
Thank you so much to Dr. Tortoriello for giving us two miracles after 5 years of invitro and artificial insems and lots of heartache. We are blessed with Twin boys who will be 1 in January and are so very grateful to the Sher Institute…... Read more
I Just wanted to say Thank You to Dr. Horowitz and everyone at the Peoria Sher Institute for helping us bring these little miracles into our lives.... Read more
Hi Dr. Fisch and Staff, I’m not much of a writer, but thought I’d send along a little story and maybe someone else there who is more adept and creative could put something more in depth together if you’re interested in using our story. I think the compelling issue with us is that my husband... Read more
I am so glad you are finally doing this. I mentioned it years ago in 2008 that I just needed more success stories as we were trying to get pregnant, but at the time many people just didn’t speak about fertility issues. We absolutely felt like we were the only ones having issues while it seemed lik... Read more
My experience with Dr. Peters and SIRM was wonderful. We are forever greatful to Dr. Peters, his entire staff and SIRM. Dr. Peters is a compassionate, honest man. He never lead us in the wrong direction. When we were at our lowest he never let us give up hope and now we have a beautiful girl. Thank ... Read more
My journey started over 14 years ago (1997) when my husband and I got married. We both came from large families and wanted to have a family of our own. I was a preschool teacher at that time and was around kids all day long. There was nothing I wanted more than becoming a mother. I always believed t... Read more
Dr. Peter Ahlering is a board certified obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) with a focus in operative laparoscopy and advanced laparoscopic procedures. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Ahlering comes from a medical background with his father and brothers also specializing in OB/GYN. Dr. Ahlering graduated from the accelerated, six-year medical program at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. His post-graduate training, including internship and residency, was at St John's ... Read more
Hyacinth Nicole Browne, MD serves as Associate Medical Director of SIRM-New York. Dr. Browne heads our Westchester fertility clinic as well as working with Dr. Tortoriello in our Manhattan fertility center. Dr. Browne is a compassionate and personable physician who is known for her patient-oriented approach to fertility treatment. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and board eligible in Reproductive Endocrinology. She makes herself available and accessible to her ... Read more
Dr. Jeffrey Fisch is a board-certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist, and is further board-certified in the subspecialty of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He is extensively published in the field of Reproductive Medicine, with more than 50 presentations at both national and international conferences. His pregnancy rates are consistently excellent despite his willingness to take on the most difficult cases. As important as his well-deserved reputation as a scientist, Dr. Fisch ... Read more
Dr. Horowitz is board certified in Ob/Gyn as well as Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is an outstanding fertility doctor with 36 published peer-reviewed manuscripts to his credit. Dr. Horowitz firmly believes in a patient-centered approach to infertility treatment and focuses on helping his patients feel comfortable and informed. He has delivered over 100 invited lectures at national and international meetings, and recently ... Read more
Dr. Al Peters is a board certified reproductive endocrinologist with 17 years of clinical and academic experience in reproductive medicine and immunology. Prior to joining SIRM, Dr. Peters was the founder and Division Head of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at the Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network. Dr. Peters' main clinical interests lie in the area of general infertility, recurrent miscarriage and menopause. He has a unique approach to these clinical problems by ... Read more
Dr. Saleh leads SIRM's Dallas IVF clinic. He is board certified in the specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as the subspecialty of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He completed an OB/GYN residency at The Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, and a three year REI fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine, CA in 1996. He has authored numerous scientific publications, and is a member of many national and international medical societies. His areas of special expertise ... Read more
Dr. Geoffrey Sher, Executive Medical Director and co-founder of SIRM, is an internationally renowned expert in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and has been influential in the births of more than 16,000 IVF babies. Over the last 30 years, Dr. Sher has helped fashion the entire field of ART. After training under "The Fathers of IVF" Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards, Dr. Sher established the first private IVF program in the United States in 1982. He later expanded his ... Read more
At SIRM's New York fertility clinic, you'll be under the care of Dr. Drew Tortoriello, a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist (fertility doctor) with more than 10 years of clinical and academic experience in the field of infertility and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Dr. Tortoriello earned his medical degree at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, during which he was time he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He went on to complete ... Read more
Though fertility clinics and embryology labs have been successfully freezing embryos for many years, the technology for successfully freezing eggs just wasn’t up to par. The main reason was because standard slow-freezing techniques resulted in ice crystal formation in the eggs – rendering them unviable…Read more
One of the major unknown variables in IVF treatment has long been identifying which embryos have the best chance of making a healthy baby. Because approximately 2/3 of a woman’s eggs are chromosomally abnormal to begin with, examining embryos under a microscope to determine which ones are “normal” has proven less than ideal…Read more
The introduction of Vitrification combined with CGH technology has opened up new possibilities for IVF treatment and fertility preservation. One dilemma that women face when considering IVF at a later age is the fact that they generally have fewer eggs available, and of those, a higher percentage are chromosomally abnormal…Read more
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