Robert Greene, MD, FACOG

About

Robert Greene arrived at reproductive medicine through a graphic design curriculum. He enrolled at The Ohio State University to study art, found the science courses pulling harder, left art as a hobby and finished his medical education at the same institution. He still uses the studio as his clinical metaphor: “What we try to achieve from a medical perspective is to control the variables that are otherwise left to chance. Like perfecting your brush strokes on canvas, the more variables you can control, the more predictable the outcome.”

That shows up in how he conducts a first visit. He says he opens with data rather than reassurance — what the workup reveals about this patient’s specific chances, and what the practice has achieved in patients with similar numbers. His wife, by his account, calls him a stubborn optimist, and he accepts the label with a condition: “The reason I am stubborn is because I have data on my side. If you take away my data, I am an optimist just like anyone else.”

The rest of his training is standard and solid: obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Louisville, then a reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at UCLA-Harbor Medical Center, followed by several years in private practice before he moved his family to the Denver area in 2015. He cites the mountains as much as the practice in explaining the move — his line is that you can drive 45 minutes one way to be at the office and 45 minutes the other way to be on the ski slopes.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF with protocol adjustment against response data: he describes modern practice as learning which variables matter, assessing them in the patient in front of you, and intervening when the picture is not ideal — including changing course mid-cycle when new information arrives
• ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection): for male factor infertility and prior fertilization failure
• Fertility preservation and age-related decline: counseling patients on what their own-egg odds look like band by band, in a practice whose 2023 SART report puts it above national figures at under 35, 35-37 and 38-40
• Second-opinion review of underperforming cycles: reading what a previous protocol produced, then deciding whether the variable to change is medication, trigger, timing or the lab
• Outcome-standard setting inside the practice: he has said the team’s benchmark is a live birth, and that “anything short of a live birth is not a success, there is no halfway point in reproductive medicine”

Why Choose Dr. Robert Greene

He quotes your number, not the clinic’s. His stated method is to tell a patient what people with similar test results achieved, which is a more useful conversation than a website headline — and this is a practice that publishes both a per-retrieval and a per-new-patient figure, so ask which one you are being shown.

He treats the protocol as provisional. “The science is constantly evolving so you really need to keep an open mind when it comes to patient care; you need to be able to adjust to new data and revise your thinking.” Patients who have had one rigid cycle elsewhere are the audience for that sentence.

He has worked both sectors. Fellowship training, then several years of private practice before Conceptions, then a move to a center now affiliated with a national research network. His habits were formed where outcomes have to be defended commercially as well as clinically.

Accountability as a team position. He says the providers at Conceptions share the same standard and succeed and fail as a team, which matters when a cycle goes wrong and you want to know who is reviewing it.

Professional Affiliations

American Society for Reproductive Medicine; Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (Fellow). The practice reports its cycles to SART under a single clinic registration, so his cases contribute to publicly checkable numbers.

His profile in the material reviewed documents a UCLA-Harbor REI fellowship and ACOG fellowship; an individual REI certificate number is not quoted.

Suitable For

• Patients over 35 who want the arithmetic: he works from band-level results rather than general encouragement
• Anyone whose last cycle did not respond as planned: a physician who says openly that protocols should be revised when data changes
• Patients deciding between own-egg IVF and donor eggs: preservation and third-party options sit in the same practice, so the comparison happens in one room
• People who distrust optimism: his own framing is that the optimism is earned by the data and would not survive its absence
• Live-birth-focused treatment plans: patients who want the endpoint defined as a baby at home, not a positive test