Southern California Center for Reproductive Medicine (US Fertility Network clinic)

Strengths: Does not give up on you. Ensures you have the best chance at success by insisting on your body’s best fsh level. Available himself for calls after hrs. Runs his clinic on time, I hardly waited longer than 15 min. Everything is straightforward no wiggle room to second guess. Weaknesses: Does not believe in experimenting with birth control to pace follicle growth. In my case I needed more of the meds to respond so BC at another clinic may have given me smaller numbers and less of a chance. This varies by clinician.

I found that it is smarter to trust his methods than to spend hrs on the internet micromanaging care - googling gives you only a piece of the puzzle and he sees the entire picture from the start.

I maxed out the stimulating hormones because lower doses weren’t yielding any results. Birth control isn’t used to try to optimize sizing. He wants as many as possible by retrieval since the numbers halve after that point.

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I know someone who died of complications with twins (not from him) so his single embryo transfer policy is for the mother’s health

Dr Anderson has a long wait until you can see him at your first appointment. It took me 6 weeks until I was able to come in. That felt long given that every moment counts when you're "older" and TTC. By a stroke of luck and good fortune, by the time I saw Dr Anderson I had found out I conceived naturally. I still took the appointment with Dr Anderson because I wanted to meet him, test the chemistry and understand who he is, might I need a fertility doctor down the road. What struck me as he walked into the office, he was very friendly and had a good attitude despite the fact that I didn't necessarily need his services anymore. He had studied my chart, shared his POV on my diagnosis (which was different from the first fertility doctor I saw) and then proceeded to discuss what I should look out for during my first trimester. I've been working with him the last few weeks, while in parallel seeing my OBGYN. He shared that it was important that I check my hormone levels, in case I needed to increase my levels to support the embryo / fetus in the first crucial weeks. It turned out my progesterone levels were low so we started hormone therapy immediately. This has been extremely beneficial considering my OB would not see me until much later in the trimester.

He and his office / team a worth the wait, if you feel the time to come in and see him is too long. I can't praise them enough.

I did not go forward with any fertility treatments but was under his care for hormone therapy during my first trimester.

Dr. Anderson has great success rates and does all transfers himself. I had a frozen embryo from my own eggs transferred to his clinic. His prices are very reasonable. He has a very thorough protocol for uterine lining, using two daily shots of hormone (I can't remember if it is progesterone or estrogen). He also has his patients on low-dose steroids, which worked well for me because I have Hashimoto's, although Dr. Anderson did not think this was a problem.

He's thorough and to the point. Other than for the actual procedures and exam, your communication will be done through nurses.

I only did an embryo transfer with Dr. Anderson. The embryo was created at a different lab. He was willing to do the transfer and his lab people were great at communicating with me about the delivery. He uses injections of progesterone twice a day, at 1mL, which was much less painful than at my previous clinic where I originally was going to transfer, which had a single shot of 2mL. He has a rather complex steroid treatment through the whole preparation of lining and after transfer which worked well for me. He does not overdiagnose uterine abnormalities, which I feel my previous doctor did.

I had an ultrasound and he looked inside my uterus, it was around $700. I had a transfer, it was about $2400 I think.

I believe he exclusively does eSET.

He’s straight forward and honest. Not super warm. But he gets results. He’s very knowledgeable and I felt like he was really following me and adjusting me as I needed. Not just a protocol. We got the furthest we have ever gotten with him.

He’s not very warm and fuzzy. But he really knows what he’s doing.

One thing he doesn’t do is put you on BCP and does blood work frequently and bases meds on the blood levels.

He won’t do multiples because of risk. I appreciated that.

Very knowledgeable,professional approach to the patient.Warm and good communicator.Took some time to review my case and proposed a treatment. Allowed me to ask as many questions as I desired. Dr Anderson showed me statistics for my age group and explained changes of me getting pregnant.

One of the top clinic in US.

Haven’t started yet

Only for the consultation,$100

He is famous for transferring only one embryo