Jun 3, 2026 · 51 min · 12 segments
AI, embryo technology, and personalized fertility treatment are changing the future of fertility care, but what does that actually mean for patients? In this episode, reproductive endocrinologist Dr…
Meir OlchaGuest
Whitney HallHost
Learn more at familiesoutloudevents.com. Dr. Olcha, before we dive in to where fertility care is going, I'd love to start with just what drew you to reproductive medicine in the first place?
I was very nerdy and kind of geeky, loved a lot of tech stuff and reproductive medicine endocrinology and infertility kind of combines the best of all those worlds.
When you are watching in a microscope and you're kind of seeing life form in front of your eyes, where you're seeing that sperm, the egg combine and the cells are dividing in front of you.
And I'm very privileged to be in this field and I can't imagine why anyone would want to be any other kind of doctor, but that's, so yeah, I mean, that's what drew me in.
It's like, it is truly just the coolest thing with it being one of the fastest growing, innovative, constantly changing.
Like a lot of different facets to REI or infertility medicine, even in the last 20 years And the kind of things that we're seeing, and even in the outcomes, they're just significantly better.
And every year, we are able to do things that are raising the pregnancy rates dramatically compared to what they were like the year before.
Before we get into just some of that fun nitty gritty, I mean, you have built your career around helping people navigate some of just the most complex and emotional moments in family building as you look at fertility care online.
First of all, just in terms of the clinical work, we are really seeing a change in how people are accepting IVF as just like a normal part of having a child and building a family.
really changed in the last 10 or 15 years to the point where before if you asked, and this is like a silly one, but if you ask someone to write like a Google review, people were really afraid of doing that 10 years ago or 15 years ago because they didn't really want other people to know that.
they were building a family through IVF or through surrogacy or through egg donation.
Learn more at familiesoutloudevents.com. Dr. Olcha, before we dive in to where fertility care is going, I'd love to start with just what drew you to reproductive medicine in the first place?
I was very nerdy and kind of geeky, loved a lot of tech stuff and reproductive medicine endocrinology and infertility kind of combines the best of all those worlds.
When you are watching in a microscope and you're kind of seeing life form in front of your eyes, where you're seeing that sperm, the egg combine and the cells are dividing in front of you.
And I'm very privileged to be in this field and I can't imagine why anyone would want to be any other kind of doctor, but that's, so yeah, I mean, that's what drew me in.
It's like, it is truly just the coolest thing with it being one of the fastest growing, innovative, constantly changing.
Like a lot of different facets to REI or infertility medicine, even in the last 20 years And the kind of things that we're seeing, and even in the outcomes, they're just significantly better.
And every year, we are able to do things that are raising the pregnancy rates dramatically compared to what they were like the year before.
Before we get into just some of that fun nitty gritty, I mean, you have built your career around helping people navigate some of just the most complex and emotional moments in family building as you look at fertility care online.
First of all, just in terms of the clinical work, we are really seeing a change in how people are accepting IVF as just like a normal part of having a child and building a family.
really changed in the last 10 or 15 years to the point where before if you asked, and this is like a silly one, but if you ask someone to write like a Google review, people were really afraid of doing that 10 years ago or 15 years ago because they didn't really want other people to know that.
they were building a family through IVF or through surrogacy or through egg donation.
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