IVF Australia

Dr Graeme Hughes has been specialising in fertility treatment for 30 years and is also an experienced Gynaecologist. He is a Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of New South Wales. He runs the largest ovulation induction clinic in NSW, at The Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney.

Dr Hughes is a Senior Examiner for the Australian Medical Council, a Visiting Medical Officer at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, and at the Prince of Wales Private Hospital in Randwick.

Dr Hughes is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a member of the Fertility Society of Australia.

Dr Hughes’ special interest is ovulation stimulation and the treatment of unexplained infertility.

Dr Hughes is the Clinical Director at IVFAustralia Eastern Suburbs (Maroubra).  He also consults from IVFAustralia Bondi Junction and City clinics. 

Dr Jeffrey Persson trained and worked in Amsterdam before obtaining his Masters of Reproductive Medicine. In 1995 he received his Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and his Certificate in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (CREI) with his thesis “Genetic aspects of reproductive failure”.

Dr Persson has practised with one of Australia’s leading infertility units and has over a decade of experience in this subspecialty area.

Dr Persson currently lectures at Sydney University and is actively involved in clinical research and is published on genetic aspects of infertility.

Dr Persson has extensive knowledge and experience in both male and female infertility.

Dr Persson is Clinical Director of IVFAustralia City clinic, and he also consults at IVFAustralia Northshore (Greenwich). x

Dr Gavin Sacks is a fertility specialist and co-director of the IVFAustralia Miscarriage Programme. He qualified in the UK from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and received a PhD in reproductive immunology at the University of Oxford.  He completed training in reproductive medicine in Sydney and London (UK equivalent of CREI) and moved to Sydney in 2005 having obtained fellowship of both the UK and Australian and New Zealand Royal Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Dr Sacks has particular interests in unexplained infertility, repeated IVF failure and miscarriage, and Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis.  He is a strong advocate of exploring strategies to achieve a family that are both effective and holistic.  He has pioneered research in reproductive immunology (including Natural Killer cell testing) and has initiated a large study on the role of acupuncture in IVF and miscarriage.  

As a conjoint senior lecturer at UNSW and Staff Specialist at St George Hospital, Dr Sacks teaches and examines for the Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Reproductive Medicine degrees, supervises research, and lectures regularly at national and international meetings. He has over 30 publications to date.

He investigates and manages all aspects of both male and female infertility and maintains a private obstetric practice as a Visiting Medical Officer at Prince of Wales and St George Private Hospitals. This enables him to provide continuity of care for many of his patients from fertility investigation through to childbirth. 

Dr Sacks consults from IVFAustralia Bondi Junction, Kogarah and City clinics. 

Dr David Golovsky, is an experienced andrologist and urologist, and has been involved in the investigation and treatment of male infertility for over 30 years with a principal interest in microsurgery. Dr Golovsky’s surgical experience coupled with his expertise in male physiology and pathology provides IVFAustralia’s fertility team with additional specialist care for couples with extreme male factor infertility.

Graduating from the University of Sydney, before training at the College of Surgeons in London, Dr Golovsky returned to Australia in 1974 to begin work at Prince Henry Hospital, and has consulted at Concord Hospital and more recently St Vincent’s Hospital. As well as his role in further developing urology at St Vincent’s, he has been a past Chair of the Division of Surgery at the Hospital, past President of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand and past Chair of their Scientific Advisory Committee. He was the Convenor of the Societé Internationale d’Urologie World Congress in 1994. He is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation and Vice President of the Wolper Jewish Hospital.

Dr Golovsky has had 30 years experience in urinary tract reconstruction and micro surgery specialising in reversal of vasectomy and relief of epididymal obstruction.

Dr Golovsky consults from IVFAustralia City providing a male infertility clinic one day per week.