David W. Richards, PhD, HCLD, ELD – Scientific Director

Dr. Richards, the scientific director at Utah Fertility Specialists, is a Doctoral IVF specialist who carried out his initial training in IVF at the USC and UCLA programs in California. Dr. Richards also received training from Dr. Jacques Cohen, one of the world’s leading IVF authorities. Dr. Richards then became the director of the Northridge IVF program in California. American Health magazine named Dr. Richard’s clinic as one of the top 5 most successful IVF centers in the country. Dr. Richards has been an expert for movie and TV including working with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

After relocating to Utah in 1997, where he grew up, Dr. Richards founded Utah Fertility Specialists, where he had envisioned and then created an IVF program providing patients the highest quality care in a personalized boutique style where he enjoys being able to focus attention to detail on each individual patient with combined success rates for pregnancies and babies born, he has remained one of the top IVF programs nationwide for over 30 years.