This week Global IVF is featuring Dr. Viken Sahakian

This week Global IVF is featuring Dr. Viken Sahakian who is Board Certified in both Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility and assumes teaching responsibilities at Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UCLA Hospitals. His clinic, Pacific Fertility Center is located in Los Angeles.

Dr. Sahakian has performed over 6000 IVF procedures and is responsible for the birth of over 3000 babies all over the world. He, along with his colleagues, pioneered the most revolutionary financial program in modern medicine, the IVF Refund Plan. Now for the first time, the doctor was willing to assume risk in treating women with infertility. He was able to achieve this by having consistently higher success rates. This program has forever changed the way we practice medicine in the field of reproductive sciences.

Dr. Sahakian also specializes in treating patients with advanced maternal age including postmenopausal women seeking infertility treatment through egg donation. He is responsible for the oldest woman on record to have given birth at the age of 67.

Hundreds of same sex partners have also been helped by Dr. Sahakian in achieving their dream of building a family through egg donation and surrogacy.

It is his mission to help couples with infertility and to be there for them every step of the way.

Please visit http://www.globalivf.com/expert-interviews.php at GlobalIVF.com to listen to Dr. Sahakian to learn more. While you are on Global IVF please take the time to sign up for our newsletters and join our online community. Your input and feed back are what makes Global IVF so successful!

Global Guest Expert: Bradford A. Kolb, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.

Welcome to the new Global IVF Blog. Our goal is to educate you, our readers, in regards to what is happening within the infertility community; not just in the USA but all over the world! We have asked experts in the Assisted Reproductive Technology field to assist us in bringing you the most current information, products, and services. Today we are highlighting Bradford Alan Kolb, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinology and the Infertility Managing Partner from the Huntington Reproductive Center.

Dr. Kolb received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of California, Irvine. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at the University of Southern California, receiving board certification in both fields. He currently holds the position of Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, and is a physician specializing in the care of complex fertility problems at Huntington Reproductive Center. Dr. Kolb is internationally known for his expertise in egg donation, oocyte cryopreservation and the treatment of couples who have failed traditional therapy in other centers. He sits on the medical advisory board for several pharmaceutical companies, Extend Fertility, Fertile Hope and Resolve.

Dr. Kolb is involved in groundbreaking research that is rapidly advancing the science of fertility preservation – a factor that will aid those desiring to delay childbearing. His current research is focused on oocyte cryopreservation (egg freezing), identification of novel factors that allow for the assessment of an embryos viability and in-vitro maturation (the retrieval and subsequent growth of immature eggs to maturity without the use of fertility drugs).