2010 Archive
08.20.2010 25 years and counting
Congratulations to IRH's Dr Awadalla for 25 years of infertility practice. Dr Awadalla was there from the early days of IVF in the United States. The first US birth from IVF was in late 1981 and Dr Awadalla began his IVF work in 1985 at the Ohio State University. In those days IVF was a lot harder to do and a lot less successful. After more than 2 decades of work, he is happy to say that we are now more often successful than not. Dr Awadalla is grateful for the tremendous patience and courage of those first patients who with their doctors pioneered the procedure.
Dr. Awadalla is also happy that he had an opportunity to meet in person Dr. Patrick Steptoe a British gynecologist who pioneered the procedure.