Meredith Brower, MD

About

Most fertility physicians describe their approach as personalized. Dr. Meredith Brower’s profile puts a name on it: she works with acupuncturists and nutritionists as part of the care she coordinates around a treatment cycle. Read that the right way, though. Acupuncture does not retrieve eggs and a nutritionist does not biopsy an embryo. What the collaboration can cover is the ground a fifteen-minute monitoring visit leaves empty — insulin resistance in polycystic ovary syndrome, weight and sleep across a three-month preparation window, stopping alcohol and nicotine before a transfer, and the two-week wait that makes patients miss appointments they cannot face.

Her own training is conventional in the best sense. She took her MD at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in 2008, completed obstetrics and gynecology residency at UCLA in 2012, and finished a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine in 2015 — a Los Angeles pipeline, which is why her calendar work and her patients’ referral patterns both stay local. She practices at the Beverly Hills campus on Wilshire Boulevard, one of four Reproductive Partners physicians listed there; the others are Andy Huang, Carrie Wambach and Wendy Chang. Stimulation monitoring and embryo work for her patients run out of the same building’s laboratory, which the practice describes as CAP-accredited with embryo biopsy and vitrification done in house.

Reproductive Partners cites her recognition as one of Los Angeles’s Top Fertility Doctors. City-magazine and directory lists of that kind vary widely in how a name gets there — some are peer-voted, some are paid placements — so treat it as a signal that she is visible to colleagues in this market, and weigh the training record and the practice’s cycle volume above it. Her cycle work also stays inside the practice rather than being subcontracted: Reproductive Partners describes one CAP-accredited embryology laboratory, accredited for more than 30 years, doing its own vitrification and blastocyst biopsy, with the PGT sample then shipped to an outside genetics lab. She is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and her stated philosophy is active listening and partnership: patients who want the reasoning behind each protocol change tend to land with physicians who describe their practice that way. She treats in English.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF and IUI cycle management: stimulation design and dose adjustment, monitoring, sedated retrieval, transfer planning, plus timed insemination for couples starting short of IVF
• Elective egg freezing: ovarian reserve testing, stimulation and vitrification in the practice’s own lab, with a stored-eggs plan written before the cycle rather than after
• Fertility preservation before medical treatment: egg or embryo freezing sequenced against an oncology or surgical start date, coordinated with the treating specialist
• Female infertility evaluation: hormone panels, ovarian reserve assessment, tubal and uterine cavity workup, and an interpretation of what each result actually rules in or out
• Integrative support around treatment: acupuncturists and nutritionists coordinated with the medical plan, with the medical plan deciding timing
• Prior-cycle problem solving: protocol review for patients who have had a poor response, a failed transfer or an over-response, which is the most common reason a patient switches physicians mid-program

Why Choose Dr. Meredith Brower

She names her collaborators. “Holistic” is a marketing word in this market; a standing network of acupuncturists and nutritionists that she coordinates care with is an operational fact. If you want complementary care, a physician who already works with those practitioners keeps the sequencing in one place instead of two, which is where conflicts usually appear.

Eleven years of fellowship-trained practice, one campus. She finished her fellowship in 2015 and practices at Beverly Hills, where three of her four colleagues on that staff also treat. Physicians who stay put accumulate familiarity with their own embryologists’ culture systems, holding times and lab protocols, and that familiarity is the thing patients actually benefit from on the day of a retrieval.

Her training is all Los Angeles academic medicine. UCLA residency and UCLA fellowship, USC medical school — the same academic programs whose guidelines and protocols set the standard of care she practices by, and the reason her referrals for anything surgical stay inside a network she knows.

Both of the elective and medical preservation pathways. Egg freezing for family timing and preservation before cancer treatment or surgery are listed as her areas of expertise, and the practice freezes under an in-house vitrification program rather than sending samples out.

Professional Affiliations

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Fellowship-trained in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, with UCLA residency and USC Keck School of Medicine. Unlike the profiles of some of her Reproductive Partners colleagues, hers does not spell out her American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology certification status; the board maintains a public certification lookup, and if that credential decides your choice, verify it before booking. On staff at the Beverly Hills campus of Reproductive Partners Medical Group, a SART-member practice (clinic ID 2254) whose 2023 report covers 3,302 treatment cycles across its Beverly Hills, Long Beach and South Bay campuses — the group’s results are published as one registration, not by office.

Suitable For

• Women freezing eggs now for use later, including those who want a documented plan for what happens to the eggs if plans change
• Patients who want acupuncture or nutrition support alongside treatment and would rather their fertility physician coordinate it than ignore it
• Anyone repeating a failed IVF cycle who wants the previous protocol picked apart rather than restarted with a higher dose
• Couples deciding between IUI and IVF for the first time and wanting the numbers behind that choice
• Older patients assessing their own reserve, who need an honest read of what testing says about time, not a sales pitch about hope