Dr. Frederick Larsen, MD, FACOG

About

Two board certifications — reproductive endocrinology and infertility, plus obstetrics and gynecology — are documented on Frederick Larsen’s profile, and no other physician on this five-clinician Scottsdale team carries that pair stated the same way. He signs his name FACOG, fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

His career reads like a military medicine track. Grew up in Virginia; undergraduate at Brigham Young University; medical degree at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1994; obstetrics and gynecology residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, where he was honored Outstanding Senior Resident and earned national ACOG recognition for research contributions. After two years as a practicing OB/GYN generalist, he completed his reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at Duke University. No training years beyond 1994 are published on the site.

At Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., he directed the assisted reproductive technology program — the site credits him with managing over 400 IVF cycles annually there — and served as faculty in the NIH Infertility Fellowship program, focused on research to improve IVF outcomes. Read that volume for exactly what it is: a historical program figure from his Walter Reed tenure, not a count for this Scottsdale clinic. Since 1998 his research has been published and presented at national and international meetings. He moved to the Phoenix metro area (“the Valley”) in 2008; the site notes his family’s ties there run more than a century deep, and that he lives in Ahwatukee with his wife and six children.

Clinical Expertise

Listed on his profile as clinical interests and surgery:

• IVF — with a research career aimed squarely at improving IVF outcomes
• Fertility preservation — named on his page, covering banking before medical treatment and by choice
• Advanced hysteroscopic surgery — cavity work inside the uterus
• Laparoscopy, including robotic techniques — the one physician on this team whose profile names robotic surgery
• Tubal reversal surgery — reconstruction for patients who had ligation and want another route to natural conception weighed against going straight to IVF
• The legal aspects of reproductive medicine — listed as a clinical interest, not a research line: the site puts it among his interests, which matters in donor, carrier and parentage arrangements where consent and paperwork decide outcomes as much as embryology does

His profile publishes no personal cycle counts or success rates; clinic-level SART numbers belong to the registration, not to one physician.

Why Choose Dr. Larsen

The certification layer is explicit. “Board-certified in both Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility as well as Obstetrics and Gynecology” is quoted on his site profile — a sentence this page declines to extend to any other clinician here.

He ran an ART program before he joined one. Directing Walter Reed’s program and teaching NIH fellows means protocol decisions were his responsibility at an institutional scale — training that shows up when a cycle needs re-engineering rather than repetition.

Surgery and stimulation under one hand. Patients with cavity or pelvic pathology usually get bounced between a surgeon and a fertility specialist; his profile carries hysteroscopy, laparoscopy (robotic included) and tubal reversal next to IVF.

Award history with dates, not adjectives: America’s Most Honored Professionals — 2016 Top 1%, 2017 Top 5%, 2018; Patients’ Choice and Compassionate Doctor designations; Outstanding Senior Resident at Madigan; national research honors from ACOG. All site-listed.

Professional Affiliations

• Member: ASRM, ACOG, SART, Phoenix Ob/GYN Society
• FACOG — fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (name suffix)
• Dual board certification as stated on the site: reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and obstetrics and gynecology; the site does not name the certifying boards
• Practices at Scottsdale, Chandler, Glendale and Tucson within Pinnacle Fertility Arizona

Suitable For

• Patients who need the uterus or pelvis fixed before the transfer: fibroid, cavity or adnexal findings that make combined surgical-plus-IVF planning the faster path
• Anyone considering tubal reversal after ligation, where the real question is reversal versus IVF and the same physician can price both honestly
• Preservation before chemo, radiation or surgery — and elective egg freezing, which his profile’s fertility-preservation line covers
• Repeated IVF failures, where program-director experience and an IVF-outcome research focus matter more than bedside manner alone
• Third-party family building with legal exposure: donor eggs, carriers, parentage documents — the clinical interest his site names for exactly these cases