Mary Hinckley, M.D.

About

The SART record for RSC’s 2023 reporting names a Medical Director, and it is Mary Hinckley — the physician accountable for how the practice’s IVF program runs and what it files. She holds that role while also teaching the next cohort of reproductive physicians as an adjunct clinical associate professor at Stanford University, and she sees patients at RSC’s San Ramon office.

Her listed expertise clusters around the moments where a cycle gets decided rather than simply executed: preimplantation genetic testing on embryos, premature ovarian failure, egg freezing, hysteroscopic surgery to correct the uterine cavity, and recurrent pregnancy loss. Beyond the clinic she is active in research and laboratory studies with an extensive publication record in peer-reviewed journals — her profile does not give a number — and she has worked for years in embryo donation, including service on ethics committees, the least standardized corner of third-party reproduction.

She is double board-certified, in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. The practice biography that describes her approach says she looks for creative solutions where others saw roadblocks and wants patients to have room to ask questions; the standing that goes with a medical director’s signature is what makes that plausible rather than promotional.

Clinical Expertise

• Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT): embryo biopsy and screening decisions — which embryos to test, which to transfer first, and what a result does and does not prove
• Premature ovarian failure and severely diminished reserve: the patient group where protocol choice, not protocol brand, determines whether there is anything to freeze
• Egg freezing and fertility preservation: as both a planned service and a rescue option mid-cycle
• Hysteroscopic surgery: camera-through-the-cervix correction of polyps, fibroids and adhesions that block implantation
• Recurrent pregnancy loss: evaluation across losses rather than a fresh plan after each one
• Embryo donation and ethics: extensive published experience in donating unused embryos, with ethics committee service, in a state where the written consent governs disposition

Why Choose Dr. Mary Hinckley

She signs for the program. An IVF Medical Director is the person who sets and audits cycle protocols across the practice. Patients who want the person managing their stimulation to be the person responsible for how the whole program behaves have that option here.

Academic appointment plus a lab bench. Stanford teaching, active research and laboratory work, and a publication record in peer-reviewed journals — the combination that usually predicts a physician who will tell you when the evidence for an add-on test is thin.

She handles the surgical half. Hysteroscopic surgery on her own expertise list means a cavity problem found mid-workup does not automatically become a referral elsewhere.

Embryo donation with an ethics record. Few patients need this path; those who do need a physician who has thought about the consent questions before. She has, on the record, and on committees.

Professional Affiliations

Board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. IVF Medical Director at Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area, named in that capacity in the practice’s SART reporting record. Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University, teaching reproductive medicine. Author of peer-reviewed publications in reproductive medicine, with research and laboratory work at RSC. Residency and fellowship institutions are not published in the sources reviewed for this page, and no society memberships are listed.

Suitable For

• Patients deciding on PGT: she lists preimplantation genetic testing as core expertise and directs the program the testing belongs to
• Premature ovarian failure and very low reserve: a named focus, and the group most often told to give up
• Recurrent pregnancy loss: evaluation across losses under one physician rather than a new protocol each cycle
• Patients who need a cavity corrected first: hysteroscopic surgery is in her own list of expertise
• Embryo donation families: long-standing clinical and ethics-committee experience in that pathway