Peter Brinsden

Peter Robert Brinsden MBBS, MRCS, LRCP, FRCOG (born 2 September 1940) is known for the treatment of infertility in couples.

[2] Brinsden joined the Royal Navy in 1966, and served as ship's medical officer 1969–1970.

[2] Brinsden served as a consultant at King Fahad Hospital, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia 1982–1985 and then at Bourn Hall Clinic under Patrick Steptoe, the IVF pioneer who, with Robert Edwards, was responsible for the birth of the world's first IVF baby Louise Brown in 1978.

He was appointed medical director at Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridge, in the UK in March 1989 following the death of Patrick Steptoe in 1988.

Brinsden is in great demand internationally as a lecturer on fertility and assisted conception issues, and in recent years has lectured at, among others, the Fertility Society of Australia's 2006 Conference,[4] the Serono Symposia International,[5] the Chicago 2007 Midwest Reproductive Symposium,[6] and the 2006 Barbados IVF Conference.