SGFC Welcomes Dr. Howard McClamrock

Dr. Howard McClamrock is modest when interviewed, but his career spanning more than 20 years in the field of infertility speaks for itself.

“This particular field of medicine is immediately gratifying,” Dr. McClamrock said. “There's almost nothing like being able to help people have children when they couldn't otherwise.” Dr. McClamrock adds that, “the rapid pace of advancing technology in fertility treatment makes for a job that is always interesting.”

Now, patients of both Shady Grove Fertility and the University of Maryland, where McClamrock has been Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at University of Maryland since 1993, will reap the rewards of experience from this unassuming expert with a vision.

A remarkable new affiliation between the two entities – the University IVF program and the country’s largest fertility center – began in December 2009, and is known as Shady Grove Fertility Center at the University of Maryland. It's a situation that results in benefits for everyone involved.

Partnership Provides Benefits for Patients and the Medical Community

The addition of Dr. McClamrock and the University of Maryland now provides patients in the Baltimore metro area a convenient third location for morning monitoring, blood draw and ultrasound. He will continue to see new and current patients for consultations and IUI’s in his downtown Baltimore location while utilizing the surgical suite and embryology lab at SGFC’s Baltimore – GBMC location for IVF procedures.

“Besides being an additional location for patients,” Dr. McClamrock explains, “UMD patients will now be able to access things like Shady Grove Fertility's Shared Risk and Shared Help programs for making treatment more affordable. Shady Grove Fertility patients will have increased opportunities to participate in multi-disciplinary research based at a major university medical school. Then there's the enhanced educational perspective.”

Not only will today's fertility patients be well-served by the new connection, future patients will, too, by way of the advanced training that medical students, residents, and fellows will receive from the collaborative flow of experience, services, and facilities.

“Our student physicians will have more chances to learn from a wider variety of fertility patient cases and from the wealth of top-level RE's at Shady Grove Fertility,” says Dr. McClamrock.

A Mentor and Visionary

The availability of inspirational educator-mentors is important to Dr. McClamrock, who cites “truly great teachers in the classroom” at the University of North Carolina and former UMD Division Chief Dr. Eli Adashi as some of the people who steered his initial interests in reproductive medicine. That inspiration is what has driven Dr. McClamrock to pass along his years of knowledge and experience to numerous medical students and residents over the years.

His reputation as a physician with foresight has resulted in the evolution of many types of fertility treatment. In 1990, he was one of the physicians behind the State of Maryland's first live birth resulting from a frozen embryo transfer. In 1993, he, along with Dr. Eugene Katz of Shady Grove Fertility's Baltimore – GBMC location, founded the IVF program at University of Maryland.

His expertise is now being called upon by the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee of the University of Maryland. As the only reproductive endocrinologist on the Committee, he is joined by experts from other arenas – ethics, neurology, biology, oncology, law, and patients – to discuss and make decisions about any related proposed studies on stem cell research.

As the newest member of the nation’s largest and most progressive fertility center, Dr. McClamrock is excited to be a part of an organization that welcomes the visionary combination of the best of academic-based and private reproductive medicine with opened arms.

“I'm expecting very good things out of this new partnership,” he says.

To schedule an appointment to see Dr. McClamrock at Shady Grove Fertility at University of Maryland in downtown Baltimore, please call our patient liaisons at 888-761-1967 or you may fill out our online schedule request form.