Dr Graeme Hughes

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 Raewyn Teirney

Dr Raewyn Teirney obtained her MB ChB Degree from Auckland University and a Masters of Medicine in Reproductive Health and Human Genetics from The University of Sydney.

After her Obstetric and Gynaecology training Dr Teirney continued further subspeciality training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility as a Clinical Lecturer at Cambridge University and Bourn Hall IVF Centre in England.

In 2002 she obtained her Certification in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (CREI) from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She is a Visiting Medical Officer at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney.

Dr Teirney has a special interest in male and female infertility, endometriosis laparoscopic surgery and menstrual disorders.

Dr Teirney consults from IVFAustralia Eastern Suburbs (Maroubra) and Southern Sydney (Kogarah) clinics.

Dr Michael Costello

Dr Michael Costello is a gynaecologist with subspecialty certification in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (CREI) who has also obtained a Masters in Reproductive Medicine at The University of Sydney.

After completing his specialty training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dr Costello undertook further sub-speciality training in infertility at The Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney and the Jessop University Hospital in Sheffield, England.

His current appointments include Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with the University of NSW and Clinical Academic with the Department of Reproductive Medicine at the Royal Hospital for Women. He is a foundation member of the PCOS Australian Alliance (PCOSAA), member of the PCOSAA Strategic Advisory Group and chaired the Therapy for Infertility Guideline Development Group for the first ever evidenced based guideline on PCOS titled "Evidence-based guideline for the assessment and management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome" which was approved by the Australian Government national Health and Medical Research Council (MHMRC) and published in 2011.

Dr Costello lectures regularly at local, national and international scientific meetings and has written over 50 medical publications including scientific journal papers and book chapters.  His main research interests include Assisted Reproductive Treatments (including Intra-Uterine Insemination and IVF) and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Dr Costello consults from IVFAustralia Bondi Junction as well as private rooms at the Royal Hospital for Women.

Dr Stephen Steigrad

Dr Steigrad obtained his MB BS Degree from The University of Sydney in 1964. He commenced Obstetrics and Gynaecological training at the Royal Hospital for Women in 1966 and then undertook post-graduate studies in the United Kingdom where he gained his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was awarded the Hallett prize of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and then gained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Returning to Australia Dr Steigrad was appointed lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of NSW and then Deputy General Medical Superintendent at the Royal Hospital for Women, a position he held for 15 years before relinquishing this post to take over his current position as Director of the Department of Reproductive Medicine at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney.

He remains a clinical lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of NSW.

He was instrumental in the establishment of the Fertility Society of Australia and was treasurer, vice president and president and spent 11 years serving on its council. He established a donor insemination clinic at the hospital 25 years ago.

His special interests include donor gametes, the treatment of infertility in disabled couples and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.

Dr Steigrad consults from private rooms at the Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick.

Dr Jenny Dew

Dr Jenny Dew is a VMO at the Royal Hospital for Women and St Vincent’s Private Hospital. Dr Dew obtained her MB BS degree from the University of New South Wales in 1984. Her subspecialty training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility was undertaken at the Royal Hospital for Women, and at The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, where she trained in advanced endoscopic surgery. She completed her thesis on HRT and Breast Cancer, and obtained her MD from the University of New South Wales in 2002.

Dr Dew consults from private rooms at St Vincent's Hospital Clinic in Darlinghurst.

Dr Juliette Koch

Dr Juliette Koch graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Adelaide.  She has been in the specialty of obstetrics and gynaecology for the last 7 years at the Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick and most recently held the position of Senior Registrar at the RHW. Dr Koch is a member of the Royal Australian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists, and received the highest award in Australia and New Zealand for her RANZCOG membership exams.