Raymond Ke

About

The physician who signs a clinic’s SART outcome report is usually the one accountable for how those numbers were produced. On Fertility Associates of Memphis’s registration, that name is Raymond W Ke, MD, HCLD. Ke holds two chairs at once: Director of Assisted Reproductive Technology at the practice and Director of Andrology at Memphis Fertility Laboratory, Inc., the separate lab entity where semen analysis is performed. The HCLD in his name is not honorary — he is certified as a High Complexity Laboratory Director by the State of Tennessee and by the American Board of Bioanalysts, alongside clinical board certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology.

He is a native of Canada who completed medical training at Dalhousie University and an OB/GYN residency at the University of Manitoba, then finished his reproductive endocrinology fellowship at The University of Tennessee, Memphis in 1992. He became a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at that institution before moving fully into practice, and he has kept an active clinical scope since 1992 across medical and surgical infertility, assisted reproduction, polycystic ovarian syndrome, menopausal medicine and reproductive endocrine disorders at every age.

His research credential is a named role in a landmark study: he was an investigator in the Women’s Health Initiative, the federally funded multi-center trial that remains the largest study of women’s health ever undertaken. He has authored more than 50 publications and given more than 70 invited lectures, and has been named one of Memphis’ Best Doctors every year since 1999 and a Best Doctor in America annually since 2004.

Clinical Expertise

• ART program direction: oversight of how stimulation, retrieval, insemination or ICSI, culture and transfer are actually run across a practice that reported 997 cycles to SART in 2023
• Andrology and the male half of the workup: semen analysis performed at the clinic’s own laboratory, with the clinic’s published reference points — under 16 million sperm per milliliter as a low count, azoospermia affecting roughly 1% of men — and sperm preparation for IUI and IVF/ICSI
• PCOS and reproductive endocrine disorders: a stated practice focus since 1992, spanning ovulation induction through IVF, plus menopausal medicine for patients further along in life
• Medical and surgical infertility: he does not limit himself to medication-only care, which matters in a practice where the surgical service sits alongside ART
• Laboratory quality and reporting: high-complexity lab director certification means the person reviewing assay performance and outcome reporting is the same physician who set the cycle protocol
• Endocrine disorders across ages: reproductive endocrinology in adolescents through postmenopause, an unusually wide age band for a fertility practice

Why Choose Dr. Raymond Ke

He is accountable for the numbers you are reading. As the medical director named on FAM’s SART registration, the practice’s reported live birth rates under 35 (58.8% per intended retrieval on 177 retrievals in 2023) are his sign-off, not a marketing department’s.

Clinician plus lab director, which is rare. Most IVF practices separate the physician who prescribes from the scientist who runs the lab. Ke holds Tennessee and American Board of Bioanalysts HCLD certification and directs andrology, so sperm analysis, preparation and the ART protocol are governed by one physician.

Thirty-plus years in the same city, the same specialty. His fellowship finished in Memphis in 1992, and the practice’s SART registration carries his name alongside William Kutteh’s — Kutteh Ke Fertility Associates of Memphis, PLLC — which is a fair signal of who built this clinic. He has been named a Memphis Best Doctor every year since 1999 and a Best Doctor in America since 2004.

He was in the largest women’s health study ever run. A WHI investigator is a credential academic clinicians recognize; it also explains his standing interest in endocrine and menopausal medicine rather than IVF alone.

Academic before private practice. A former professor of obstetrics and gynecology who still publishes and gives invited lectures — more than 50 publications and 70 of them.

Professional Affiliations

Board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology; certified as a High Complexity Laboratory Director by the State of Tennessee and the American Board of Bioanalysts. Former Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Tennessee, Memphis. Investigator in the Women’s Health Initiative. Medical director of record on the SART registration for Kutteh Ke Fertility Associates of Memphis, PLLC, the single-site practice reporting that also appears in CDC ART clinic listings under the same entity name.

Suitable For

• Couples where male factor is suspected or unproven: the andrology director personally oversees semen analysis, which is often the highest-yield early test in a workup
• Patients whose cycle has already failed: a physician who directs the ART program as a system, not just individual prescriptions
• Women with PCOS: endocrine management over years, not only one stimulation cycle, from a doctor who has listed PCOS as a focus since 1992
• Patients needing both medicine and surgery: he practices medical and surgical infertility in a clinic with an in-house MIGS surgeon
• Older patients and menopausal questions: reproductive endocrine disorders across all age groups, plus menopausal medicine
• Anyone auditing the clinic’s claims: the physician whose name is on the SART report is the person to ask how outcomes were counted