Dr. Tony Walsh

Dr Tony Walsh, Medical Director of the SIMS clinic said the results from the clinic are "world class" and he paid tribute to the lab, medical and nursing staff at the clinic.

Dr. Anthony Walsh,
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Dr.Walsh graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 1980.He is Chief Medical Director and Consultant with Sims in Ireland and Barbados.He is the founder of the original Sims Clinic in Dublin, which is Ireland's largest private fertility treatment unit.Dr. Walsh was Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Trinity College and is a consultant at St. Josephs Hospital Dublin.He has extensive experience in IVF and has worked in infertility units in Europe, the Middle East and North America.He has practised IVF for many years.

Dr Tony Walsh, chief medical director of the J Marion Sims Clinic, said he was "very enthusiastic" about the success rates achieved since a new technique was employed at the clinic.

The report, by Dr Tony Walsh, Medical Director of the Sims Fertility Clinic in Dublin, pointed out the experiences of a number of pregnant IVF patients of the clinic, who were aged over 40, and who attended maternity hospitals for antenatal care. Many of these pregnant patients, according to Dr Walsh, "were strongly advised by the medical staff (of the maternity hospitals) to have amniocentesis because of the known increased incidence of... Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....

The report, by Dr Tony Walsh, Medical Director of the Sims Fertility Clinic in Dublin, pointed out the experiences of a number of pregnant IVF patients of the clinic, who were aged over 40, and who attended maternity hospitals for antenatal care.Many of these pregnant patients, according to Dr Walsh, "were strongly advised by the medical staff (of the maternity hospitals) to have amniocentesis because of the known increased incidence of ... Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....

The meeting was also addressed by Dr Tony Walsh, Medical Director, SIMS Fertility Clinic, Dublin.

Dr Walsh indicated that the incidence of infertility by 2020 will be one-in-four couples and the chance of becoming pregnant (fecundability) in a single month in the general population is 20 per cent.

Initial IVF treatment will be free, which means expertise can be delivered locally, according to SIMS Director, Dr Tony Walsh.The programme is funded by SIMS with some pharmaceutical sponsorship and will provide treatment to women who will only have to travel to Dublin for embryo transfer.

Dr Walsh told IMN that while the "field of reproductive medicine has galloped ahead in the last 25 years", over the last five years it has slowed down and SIMS is now trying to make the process of IVF more patient-friendly and reduce stress levels.
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This was IVF using the patient's own eggs and a heart beat at this stage makes a full-term pregnancy "a realistic proposition", according to Dr Walsh.
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The treatment is not offered to same sex couples and according to Dr Walsh the situation needs to be clarified at a general level because of concerns about the welfare of the child, "real or imaginary".
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According to Dr Walsh, of those who experience fertility problems around 50 per cent will go on to need IVF and one-third of people with fertility problems will never have a diagnosis, he said.

Tony Walsh, medical director of the Sims clinic in Dublin, says that more couples who have delayed marriage are having difficulty conceiving when they eventually decide to become parents.While the average age of first-time Irish mothers is now heading for 30, many are missing the boat."It's a lifestyle thing.People are delaying marriage due to a number of factors.Lots are putting their careers first while setting up a material basis for having a family," said Walsh."The increase in marital breakdown in Ireland is also making people more reluctant to walk down the aisle.The problem with all this is if things don't happen when they try to have children, they simply haven't got much time to sort it out.The hardest problem to sort out, from a fertility point of view, is the advancing reproductive years of a female."Walsh, who is credited with Ireland's first IVF baby, says that Hollywood mores are also to blame for women allowing their years of fertility slip by.
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Many are having them by IVF and with a donor egg," said Walsh.
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"If you can overcome the female egg in natural decline there is a high chance of a pregnancy occurring," said Walsh.
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Walsh says patients are often shocked when they are told the problem with conceiving may be their age.

Tony Walsh, medical director of the Sims clinic in Dublin, says that more couples who have delayed marriage are having difficulty conceiving when they eventually decide to become parents.

While the average age of first-time Irish mothers is now heading for 30, many are missing the boat."It's a lifestyle thing.

The conference convenor was Dr. Tony Walsh, medical director at Sims.Dr Walsh gave a paper on the history of Marion Sims and his historically sustaining work in Gynaecological surgery.
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Dr Walsh has practiced IVF for seventeen years and is responsible for the first test-tube baby in Ireland.He has pioneered all the leading developments in IVF in Ireland including donor sperm and egg in IVF cycles.