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About
Princeton summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha at the top of her class at UCSF medical school, then both residency and fellowship at Stanford: the training record is unusual, and Dr. Brooke Friedman uses it on the narrowest part of an IVF cycle. Her stated scientific interests are optimizing stimulation protocols and embryo transfer technique, plus diminished ovarian reserve and fertility preservation — the places where a cycle is won or lost on details rather than on medication volume.
She holds board certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, the two-part certification path a reproductive endocrinologist goes through. At Stanford she collected multiple teaching awards and a specific award for laparoscopic surgical skill, which matters for patients whose infertility has a surgical component. She has authored book chapters and peer-reviewed articles and has presented award-winning research at national meetings.
San Diego Magazine has named her a Top Fertility Doctor in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026 — nine listings. The clinic states that is more than any other fertility specialist in San Diego, and that the award comes from local physicians nominating colleagues they would send their own patients and families to. She also speaks French.
Clinical Expertise
- IVF protocol design: adjusting stimulation to how an individual patient responds, which is her published area of interest rather than a general service line
- Embryo transfer technique: the step she names as a specific research focus — catheter choice, timing and technique all affect whether a transferred embryo implants
- Diminished ovarian reserve: individualized strategies for patients who recruit few eggs, a group her clinic’s Gentle IVF protocol also targets
- Fertility preservation and egg freezing: elective freezing and preservation before medical treatment that threatens fertility
- Laparoscopic surgery: recognized for laparoscopic surgical skill during her Stanford fellowship, relevant to endometriosis and tubal pathology found during workup
- ICSI: the clinic’s standard fertilization method, where injected sperm is used for male factor or prior fertilization problems
Why Choose Dr. Brooke Friedman
Peer nomination, repeatedly. San Diego Magazine’s Top Fertility Doctor list is built from physician nominations, and Friedman appears on it nine times across 2016 to 2026. The clinic reports this as the highest count for a San Diego fertility specialist. Peer trust of that kind is harder to earn than patient reviews, because it depends on other doctors being willing to route their own patients and relatives to you.
Patient-voted recognition alongside it. She has also taken the Vitals Patients’ Choice Award and Compassionate Doctor Recognition and a Top Ten Physicians award — patient-side honors that sit next to the physician-nominated ones.
She works on the transfer, not only the prescription. Most IVF interest statements list conditions. Hers names a procedure: embryo transfer technique. Ask her directly about transfer catheter choice and whether you get a mock transfer before the real one.
A published record. Book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and award-presented research at national meetings, plus teaching awards from Stanford — the profile of a physician who reads the literature rather than only the protocol binder.
Professional Affiliations
Fellowship-trained reproductive endocrinologist, board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, the regional society that hosts much of the Western US reproductive biology research agenda.
Suitable For
- Patients with a rough stimulation history: if prior cycles produced too few eggs, too many, or an uneven response, protocol redesign is her named specialty
- Diminished ovarian reserve: a focus area she lists herself, not an occasional case type
- Egg freezing and preservation: both elective freezing and freezing before chemotherapy or other gonadotoxic treatment
- Physicians and families referred by other San Diego doctors: the referral base behind the nine peer-nominated listings
- French-speaking patients: she consults in French as well as English