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About
Brent Monseur, MD (they/them) built the clinic they now practice through. As founding director of the Q+ LGBTQ+ Family Building clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine, they assembled a team focused on one research question with direct clinical stakes: how to improve reproductive outcomes for sexual and gender minority patients, who have historically been studied last and served worst. They then brought that program to Pacific Fertility Center’s San Francisco office as a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist.
Their credential path runs from the Medical College of Virginia through OB/GYN residency at Thomas Jefferson University to an REI fellowship at Stanford, with a master’s in reproductive biology (ScM) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health along the way. As a Stanford Instructor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology they led the Q+ research team; their recognition includes the inaugural Stanford Graduate Medical Education Award for Promoting Health Equity, ASRM’s Diversity Fellowship Research Award, and an NIH Health Disparities Research Loan Repayment Program award. They have served as chair of ASRM’s LGBTQ+ Special Interest Group and held board roles with Medical Students for Choice, Path2Parenthood, and TEACH. They are a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and see patients in English and Spanish.
Clinical Expertise
- LGBTQ+ family building: IVF and IUI pathways for same-sex couples, donors and gestational carriers under California’s enforceable parentage law — the direct clinical extension of their Stanford research program
- Transgender and nonbinary reproductive care: fertility preservation counseling for patients on or considering gender-affirming hormones, an area their published research specifically addressed
- IVF and fertility preservation for all patients: egg freezing and standard ART care alongside the specialty focus
- Reproductive equity research: reproductive justice and health-equity scholarship recognized by ASRM and Stanford faculty awards
Why Choose Dr. Monseur
They founded the Stanford clinic, then left it for your side of the table. Few fertility physicians have built an LGBTQ+ program from scratch, chaired the national specialty group for it, and still carry a full patient panel — Monseur did all three before joining PFC.
A research record on your specific family plan. Their team’s work centered on improving outcomes for sexual and gender minority populations, meaning protocol decisions for donor-sperm IUI or reciprocal IVF rest on their own published evidence rather than extrapolated heteronormative data.
Institutional recognition with a date and a name: the inaugural Stanford GME Award for Promoting Health Equity, ASRM’s Diversity Fellowship Research Award, and an NIH health-disparities loan repayment award.
Professional Affiliations
Board-certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG). Former chair, ASRM LGBTQ+ Special Interest Group. Board roles: Medical Students for Choice, Path2Parenthood, TEACH. Instructor alumna of Stanford’s Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology; physician at Pacific Fertility Center, San Francisco.
Suitable For
- Lesbian and queer couples planning known-donor, sperm-bank, or reciprocal IVF/IUI pregnancies
- Trans and nonbinary patients freezing eggs, sperm, or embryos around hormone therapy
- Gay male couples coordinating egg donation and gestational surrogacy under California law
- Any patient who wants pronoun-respecting intake and a clinician whose research base is their own family-building path