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University fertility clinic offers expanded services at new facility The Missouri Center for Reproductive Medicine and Fertility at Columbia Regional Hospital is offering couples a renewed hope of pregnancy through an expansion of clinical services at its new location. A grand opening celebration and open house are planned from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, in Suite 203 of the Keene Medical Building at Columbia Regional Hospital, 402 Keene St. Two board-certified reproductive endocrinologists and associate professors of obstetrics, gynecology and women’s health at the MU School of Medicine, Danny Schust, M.D., and John Cassels, M.D., will lead a multidisciplinary team of fertility specialists. "The new center will bring all our services under one roof and allow us to have an on-site embryologist and andrologist, along with several procedure rooms that allow us to move our minimally invasive procedures to a clinical setting," said Schust. The expanded fertility clinic will offer medical and surgical treatments for infertility to traditional and non-traditional families. A full range of state-of-the-art assisted reproductive technologies will assist physicians in diagnosing, treating and assisting infertility patients. New clinical services include preimplantation genetic diagnosis, which helps couples identify genetic defects or chromosome abnormalities that could potentially affect their children, and enhanced male infertility treatments for cancer survivors and spinal cord injury patients. "The new clinic will provide patients the most comprehensive reproductive medical care in an all-inclusive, on-site state-of-the-art center," said Schust. Nearly one in six couples experience fertility problems. The struggle and uncertainty of getting pregnant affects about 6.1 million American men and women. Infertility is a disease of the reproductive system. It can be caused by physical, medical, environmental or genetic conditions. About one-third of cases are traced to female reproductive problems, while one-third of cases are the result of male reproductive problems. "The inability to get pregnant is very disempowering, and one of our jobs is to give power back to those people by giving them information and options," said Schust. Columbia Regional Hospital, a part of the University of Missouri Health Care system, is a full-service acute-care facility. The hospital has been named one of the nation's top orthopaedic hospitals, and it offers the region's most comprehensive medical team for mothers and newborns at its Family Birth Center, Missouri OB/GYN Associates and newborn intensive care unit. E-mail this page | | Print this page |
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