CHR’s Medical Director and Chief Scientist, Norbert Gleicher, MD, was extensively quoted in an ABC News article that addresses the fact that increasingly older women are conceiving and having children. This piece by Grace Wong, entitled “Why more women are having babies at 50 and beyond,” was motivated by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill, being pregnant with her second child, and expecting to deliver after her 50th birthday.
Among other comments, Dr. Gleicher noted that the trend toward increasingly elder women having children is rapidly growing, though strong evidence not mentioned in the article was the fact that CHR’s median age of new patients in one year between 2016 and 2017 increased from 42 to 43. One of CHR’s “older” patients also volunteered to speak to the reporter.
This is a part of the March 2018 CHR VOICE.
Norbert Gleicher, MD, leads CHR’s clinical and research efforts as Medical Director and Chief Scientist. A world-renowned specialist in reproductive endocrinology, Dr. Gleicher has published hundreds of peer-reviewed papers and lectured globally while keeping an active clinical career focused on ovarian aging, immunological issues and other difficult cases of infertility.
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