Dr. Harvey Stern, United States

Dr. Stern joined GIVF Fertility in 1995 and is Director of Reproductive Genetics. He has extensive experience in prenatal genetic diagnosis and evaluation of congenital fetal abnormalities. He is an attending physician providing amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, first-trimester screening, and ultrasound for GIVF's prenatal genetics program. Dr. Stern provides preconception and postconception genetic counseling for patients who want to understand their risk of having a child with a genetic disorder or discuss a known genetic condition in their family. He also oversees genetic screening of egg donors at Fairfax EggBank and sperm donors at Fairfax Cryobank.

Dr. Stern is medical director of Fairfax Cryobank and GIVF's preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) program. He also oversees GIVF's reproductive endocrinology laboratory.

Education and Training

Dr. Stern is board-certified in pediatrics and medical genetics, with subspecialty board certification in clinical, biochemical, and molecular genetics. He is a founding member of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics. He earned an undergraduate degree in cellular and molecular biology from Columbia College and a PhD in human genetics from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He attended medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. After pediatric residency at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., he completed a medical genetics fellowship at UCLA.

From 1987 to 1995, Dr. Stern was an attending physician in medical genetics and laboratory medicine at Children's National Medical Center. He served as assistant director of clinical chemistry and established a biochemical genetics laboratory and the first molecular (PCR)-based genetic diagnostic laboratory in a pediatric hospital. He was an associate professor of pediatrics and pathology at George Washington University Medical Center.

Dr. Stern currently holds faculty appointments in obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and human genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also teaches prenatal genetics to OB/GYN medical students at Fairfax Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia.