Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Center, at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Fertility Center

Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Center, at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital

St. Louis, MO

SART MemberLab Accredited979 Annual Cycles

Services Offered

IVFIUIICSIGenetic Testing (PGT)Embryo FreezingDonor EggDonor SpermDonated EmbryoGestational CarrierFertility PreservationMale InfertilityRecurrent Pregnancy LossLGBTQ+ Family BuildingEgg Freezing

About

The Fertility & Reproductive Medicine Center is the academic fertility program of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WashU Medicine), run through its Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility. Its assisted reproduction program produced Missouri's first IVF baby in 1985, and the center has been a SART member since 1992. Dr. Kenan Omurtag serves as medical director and division chief.

The main clinic is in the Central West End at 4444 Forest Park Avenue, Suite 3100, with satellite offices in West County on the Missouri Baptist Medical Center campus and in Shiloh and Carbondale, Illinois, plus telemedicine for patients in Springfield.

Care spans medical therapies, IUI, IVF with ICSI, preimplantation genetic testing and carrier screening, and fertility surgery for both women and men. The center offers donor egg (including a frozen egg bank), donor sperm and embryo donation programs, a gestational carrier program, recurrent pregnancy loss care and LGBTQIA+ family building, as well as an integrated fertility preservation program for cancer and non-cancer patients.

IVF Success Rates

CDC 2022 data — the most recent final figures published

Diagnosis

Own Eggs

Live birth rate per intended egg retrieval

Age Group	This Clinic	National
<35	58.0%	49.7%
35-37	53.7%	36.3%
38-40	15.6%	23.1%
>40	10.4%	7.7%

Sample: 496 cycles at this clinic

Donor Eggs

Live birth rate per embryo transfer

Egg / Embryo Type	This Clinic	National
Fresh embryo, fresh egg	—	52.0%
Fresh embryo, frozen egg	—	45.2%
Frozen embryo	53.1%	45.1%
Donated embryo	—	42.2%

Sample: 49 cycles at this clinic

Three-year trend

Overall figures only — CDC publishes the diagnosis breakdown for 2022 alone.

Age Group	2020	2021	2022
<35	53.1%	54.1%	58.0%
35-37	38.4%	39.0%	53.7%
38-40	29.2%	29.7%	15.6%
>40	12.2%	11.4%	10.4%

Success rates depend heavily on which patients a clinic accepts, so these numbers should not be used to rank clinics against one another. Cells CDC suppressed for small sample sizes (1-4 cycles) are shown as a dash.