The practice of reproductive medicine and assisted reproduction is rapidly evolving as new technologies, medications, diagnostic assays, and treatment protocols are developed and incorporated into clinical practice. In order to maximize the efficacy, safety, and efficiency of fertility treatments, rigorous scientific research and sophisticated statistical analyses are needed to identify and evaluate clinically significant effects. The expenditures needed to maintain a qualified research staff may be difficult to justify even for larger non-academic institutions, and financially impractical for many smaller ones. Fertility Science Consulting is here to fill that need, by providing affordable part-time scientific expertise and support as desired to help you accomplish your research goals, large or small!
Clinicians, unlock valuable secrets hidden within your clinical data! Infertility treatment centers generate large and ever-growing databases of patient characteristics, medical treatments and interventions, and resulting treatment outcomes of clinical relevance. Discover ways to improve treatment outcomes for your patients by analyzing your own clinical data and determining what is working well for you and, perhaps more importantly, what is not working well.
Make meaningful contributions to the scientific discussion! Do you have any clinically interesting and unanswered questions about infertility and its treatment? Are there any aspects of your treatment protocols that differ from what is typically reported in the scientific literature? (hint: all centers, and all clinicians, do things at least a little bit differently) Is there anything of clinical significance that you do, that as yet has received little or no attention in published reports? There is a good chance that there is, given the rapid incorporation of new treatment variations, often with limited or no controlled testing to confirm efficacy and clinical benefit, into general clinical practice. Do you think that you may have information that can help fill in any gaps in our knowledge about infertility and its treatment, or that can help clarify or resolve any areas of ongoing controversy? If the answer to any of these is yes, there is a good chance that Fertility Science Consulting can provide the scientific and analytical expertise to help you develop these ideas into professional scientific studies for abstract presentation or manuscript publication. Through such participation in the scientific discussion, your research may potentially influence treatment approaches and benefit infertility patients worldwide.
Developers of pharmaceuticals, therapeutic devices, and other technological adjuncts of infertility treatments, get expert scientific and analytical support as needed for clinical trials at any stage.
Founder and Chief Scientist of Fertility Science Consulting, Kevin S. Richter, Ph.D., has been a leading clinical research scientist of reproductive medicine for more than two decades. He has published more than 50 peer reviewed manuscripts in top journals in the field, and coauthored more than 150 abstracts presented at major scientific conferences (including more than 60 accepted for oral presentation) such as annual meetings of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.