Our Locations

Gosford

IVFAustralia provides the most extensive and convenient network of fertility centres and consulting sites in and around Sydney and the Central Coast.

Our surgical facilities and laboratory are co-located in three locations across Sydney, which avoid the known hazards of transporting fragile eggs and embryos. 

IVFAustralia’s network of care allows patients the opportunity to attend specialist consultations and undertake blood and ultrasound treatment monitoring at clinic locations either close to home or work.

Our Gosford clinic is the only full service IVF clinic located on the Central Coast.

Based in North Albany Street, this purpose-built clinic provides general consulting, daily blood and ultrasound monitoring, and specialised semen analysis.

Day surgery procedures (egg collection) are conducted at Gosford Private Hospital.

Fertility specialists Dr Malcolm Tucker, Dr Frank Quinn and Dr Gavin Kemball consult at the clinic.


Gosford

Suite 24 , Level 2

207 North Albany St

T: +61 2 4349 2000
F: +61 2 4349 2073


Specialist Biographies

BSc MB ChB FRCOG FRANZCOG

Infertility & Gynaecology

Dr Malcolm Tucker

Dr Malcolm Tucker is an experienced fertility specialist who has practised on the Central Coast for more than 20 years and has been closely involved with the development of Advanced Assisted Reproduction services on the Central Coast. Qualifying in Medicine in 1975, when he won the Alexander Prize for Surgery.

Dr Tucker commenced specialist training in 1978 at Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney. In 1981 he was awarded the Berkeley Fellowship from Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. He worked as Research Fellow to Professor Howard Jacobs at the Middlesex Hospital London, investigating the polycystic Ovary syndrome and has published papers on this subject.

Dr Tucker is a Fellow of both the UK and the Australian and New Zealand Royal Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He is a member of the Fertility Society of Australia and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. He maintains a keen interest in minimally invasive surgery and is a member of the Australian Gynaecological Endoscopy Society.

Dr Tucker is involved in the education of specialty trainees. He is a Conjoint Lecturer at the University of Newcastle and a Visiting Medical Officer at Gosford Hospital and is currently the Chairperson of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Dr Tucker consults from IVFAustralia Central Coast (Gosford).



MB BS M Med FRANZCOG CREI

Infertility, Reproductive Endocrinology and Gynaecology

Dr Frank Quinn

Dr Frank Quinn trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St George Hospital before gaining international experience in the United Kingdom working in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

After returning to Australia he completed his fellowship and subspecialty training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (CREI). His Australian training has been augmented by a six-month fellowship in male infertility at the Lister Hospital, London.

Dr Quinn is Clinical Director of IVFAustralia Northshore and Central Coast Clinics and a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Dr Quinn has particular interests in male infertility and has research experience in the area of oocyte donation.

Dr Quinn consults from IVFAustralia Northshore and Central Coast clinics.



MB BS MRCOG FRANZCOG BSc MSc

Infertility, Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Dr Gavin Kemball

 

Dr Gavin Kemball studied medicine at St Marys Hospital in London. In 1995 he gained a place on the London training programme for Obstetrics and Gynaecology, where he had the privilege to work in many of the leading London teaching hospitals. He was awarded his membership of the Royal College in 1997.

In 2001, he spent 18 months in Sydney as a Reproductive Fellow, working at IVF South, which became one of the founding clinics of IVFAustralia.

Upon returning to England he was appointed as a consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Alongside his daily responsibilities on the birthing suite, he ran a specialist menopause and endocrinology clinic as well as leading the colposcopy service, and dealt with routine major gynaecological problems. Dr Kemball also worked in private practice in a specialist IVF clinic carrying out a full range of assisted reproduction services including IUI, IVF and ICSI.

In 2009, he moved back to Australia to take up the post of Director of Womens Services in Gosford Hospital NSW. Here he helped run the Obstetric and Gynaecological service to the public patients on the Central Coast of NSW.

In 2010 he was awarded his FRANZCOG, and since then has begun working in private practice, focusing mainly on IVF, reproductive endocrinology, menstrual irregularities, laparoscopic surgery, menopause, colposcopy and general gynaecology.

He has now re-located to Sydney to concentrate on IVF and gynaecology, and practises out of IVFAustralia's City, Kogarah, Miranda, and Gosford clinics.

 



MBBCH, AMCC, FRANZCOG

Infertility, Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Dr Raouf Farag

Dr Farag is an experienced obstetrician and gynaecologist offering a range of services from investigation and diagnosis to comprehensive treatment for infertility and advanced, minimally invasive pelvic surgery.

Dr Farag undertook his specialist training at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle and at Westmead Hospital in Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He is also a member of the Fertility Society of Australia (FSA), Australian Gynaecological Endoscopy Society (AGES), and Australian Association of Vaginal and Incontinence Surgeons (AAVIS).

Dr Farag has an interest in general infertility, recurrent miscarriages and advanced laparoscopic treatment of endometriosis.

Dr Farag has a private obstetric practice, which enables him to follow his infertility patients from conception to birth.

He provides pregnancy care at the highest level, enabling expectant mothers to have a positive and reassuring pregnancy and childbirth experience.

Dr Farag consults from his private rooms in Gosford.