Dr Glenn Sterling
Dr Glenn Sterling is the founding director of Life Fertility Clinic in Brisbane.
He has personally sourced the expert staff necessary to offer the highest quality assisted reproductive technology services and donor program.
Glenn Sterling elected to train in England in IVF under the supervision of Professor Ian Craft of Harley Street, London.
His instruction was unique and was underpinned by one important principle: IVF is all about attention to detail.
Professor Craft pioneered needle aspiration of sperm and laser hatching and has had many firsts in the world of IVF. They include:
- Britain´s first IVF twins (1982) and triplets (1984)
- Britain’s first GIFT births
- Britain’s first egg donor birth (1987)
- World’s first IVF birth using LHRH analogues (buserelin, goserelin)
- Britain’s first ICSI birth
- World’s first PESA birth
- Britain’s first embryo donor birth, and
- Britain’s first laser assisted hatching birth.
Dr Sterling blended his Australian training (considered to be among the world’s leading IVF nations) with Professor Crafts tutelage to become a Harley Street IVF doctor and renowned fertility care expert. In the UK and over years of international, national and local experience, Dr Sterling has acquired invaluable knowledge in the delivery of fertility treatment.
Awarded:
Autosuture Travelling Fellowship to the USA, UK, Italy, Germany and France
Queensland Cancer Fund Scholarship to World Congress of Gynaecological Oncology
Royal Brisbane Hospital Certificate of Teaching Excellence.
Royal Australian College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (RACOG) Gold Medal MRACOG.
Member, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (London)
Fellow, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (FRANZCOG)
Fellow, Medical Society of London (MSL).
Areas of specific interest:
Fertility and assisted reproductive technology. His research with Professor Craft was predominantly on male infertility and he was the first to identify an association between oligospermiaazoospermia and the necessity for higher doses of FSH in IVF.
Advanced laparoscopic surgery (particularly in the treatment of endometriosis).
Previous Experience:
Brisbane
Founding Medical Director, IVF Clinic, Wickham Terrace Specialist in Fertility, Obstetrics and Gynaecology at a leading Queensland Private hospital Associate of the Endometriosis Institute of Queensland, collaborating with Oxford University in establishing the genetic basis to endometriosis.
United Kingdom
London Fertility Centre - Research Fellow at the London Fertility Centre, Dr Sterling assisted Professor Ian Craft in clinical and research tasks.
St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth - Senior Registrar and Locum Consultant
Queensland
Royal Women’s Hospital - Queensland Gynaecology Oncology Service - Senior Registrar coordinating clinical practise and research under Professor Crandon in the largest gynaecological oncology practise in Australia.
Flying Obstetric Service, Roma, Australia
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), The University of Queensland.