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[quote=Anonymous]Well, I consulted with him, as well as discussed him and other alternatives with the RE I was moving from.

He is known to experiment and has premiered some of the more accepted ART procedures to date, then throws them to the researchers to figure out why they work (per my local RE). His blog is definitely very informative. He also offers free consultation; however, he had not really read my file carefully and kept confusing me with a different patient while doing my consultation, and also sounded very pushy, so to me this is his marketing technique. He was also making recommendations on protocols that in the end can lead to OHSS and I overall did not feel comfortable with him.

He is one of the few that are on the bandwagon for immune issues. However, his knowledge there is limited (he is not a reproductive immunologist, and picks and chooses whatever he wants from the RI playbook, primarily written by Alan Beer who is now deceased). I was particularly irked when he ordered some very partial immune tests, and quickly concluded what kind of treatment I needed, despite the results being at most marginal. I then sought a second opinion from another doctor who addresses immune issues and she said she didn't think that was at play at all. Then I did more extensive testing with everything coming up normal. Yet he was on the phone, sounding like a used car salesman trying to convince me to fly to Vegas to have my baby.

If you do some Internet searching for personal experiences with him, they will come up hit or miss. However, I have read (but have no personal experience with) good things about the doctors at SIRM NYC/NJ and PA (Tortoriello in particular). If you have concerns about immune issues I would definitely consider them, but would do more in depth testing and research than they would offer and get second opinions from some of the other people who work with immune issues.

If immune issues are not at play and you are looking for an alternative clinic, my recommendation would be CCRM (based on my personal sometimes frustrating but overall successful experience), but that is an entirely different topic. [/quote]

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