Dr Peter Illingworth

Peter is an experienced infertility specialist with over 20 years’ experience in assisted reproduction.  He is highly regarded internationally due to his academic achievements and practical patient focused approach. Having just concluded a four year term as President of the Fertility Society of Australia, Peter’s ability to facilitate collaboration, develop and implement ways to improve clinical practice and results for patients is renowned.

Moving to Australia in early 1996, Peter  is Medical Director of IVFAustralia. His qualifications include  an accredited sub-speciality in infertility and he is a Fellow of both the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London.  Peter is a Royal College examiner in the Certificate of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

He has an international reputation in the field of reproductive medicine, and has published over 70 research papers and book chapters, and provides regular media comment in Australia. His special interests are in reproductive endocrinology and female fertility disorders and he has served on a number of senior committees of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. Peter takes great pride in the fact IVF Australia is a RANZCOG appointed training ground for fertility specialists of the future.