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About
The numbers on a fertility clinic’s website are audited by the organization Timothy Hickman once led. He is a past president of SART, the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, sat on its executive board for more than 20 years, previously chaired its registry committee and served as its webmaster, and he is currently the CDC liaison to SART — the reporting pipeline that produces the age-band tables this practice’s patients are shown. He is also the physician who started this practice: he opened the Houston clinic in 2001, the one that later became CCRM Fertility of Houston, and he still holds the founding physician and medical director titles with 30 years in practice.
He took his MD at St. Louis University School of Medicine, then trained at Johns Hopkins in obstetrics and gynecology and in the reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship there. His profile lists board certification in both obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and the practice credits his team with the first pregnancy in Texas that resulted in a live birth using cryopreserved eggs, a laboratory-technique milestone he has stayed close to for three decades.
His listed clinical interests run to the harder ends of the schedule: IVF, PGT-A, endometriosis, poor responders, PCOS, uterine fibroids, progesterone supplementation, ovulation disorders, and the psychosocial side of infertility. Three other reproductive endocrinologists practice here with him, and his profile lists nurse practitioner Aminah Chaib as collaborating on his patients. On his profile quote he describes the job as building families “one miracle at a time,” which is marketing language; the verifiable version is that he has spent 30 years on the technical and regulatory ends of the field, and still prescribes here.
Clinical Expertise
- IVF cycle management: stimulation, monitoring, retrieval and transfer decisions across a full program, as the physician who built this one
- PGT-A and embryo testing: a named specialty interest, with testing handled inside CCRM’s own genetics laboratory
- Poor responders: named on his specialty list, the patient group for whom stimulation protocol design decides everything else about a cycle
- Endometriosis and uterine fibroids: both named specialty interests, which shapes how surgical and IVF pathways get sequenced
- PCOS and ovulation disorders: named on his profile, with Dr. Kudesia covering the lifestyle-medicine side of the same population
- Progesterone supplementation and luteal support: a named interest, the small protocol decisions that get argued about in reproductive endocrinology
- Psychosocial aspects of infertility: on his specialty list, unusual enough to be worth noting for patients who want the counseling conversation in the same room
Why Choose Dr. Timothy Hickman
He founded this practice and has not left it. One address since 2001, as founding physician and medical director, which means the laboratory and monitoring standards you are buying into are the ones he set.
He has audited the data he publishes. Past SART president, 20-plus years on its executive board, former registry committee chair, current CDC liaison to the society. When a patient asks how a published success rate was calculated, this is the man who wrote pieces of that calculation.
Texas’s first frozen-egg live birth is credited to his team, per the practice’s own profile of him — a laboratory milestone, and a claim scoped to Texas rather than the country.
Johns Hopkins training on both ends. Residency and REI fellowship at Hopkins, with ABOG certification in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.
Long-running peer and press recognition: Texas Super Doctor in Texas Monthly for more than 20 years, U.S. News & World Report top doctor in reproductive endocrinology, Houstonia magazine top doctor, Castle Connolly Top Doctor.
Professional Affiliations
Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology — past president, more than 20 years on the executive board, former webmaster and former chair of its registry committee, and currently the CDC liaison to SART. American Society for Reproductive Medicine and Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility member. Former ASRM delegate to the AMA Young Physician Section and former ACOG delegate to the AMA Resident Fellow Section. Recognition listings include Texas Monthly Super Doctor (20-plus years), U.S. News & World Report, Houstonia magazine and Castle Connolly.
Suitable For
- Patients with a long treatment history or failed cycles elsewhere: the founding medical director of the Houston practice he started in 2001, with poor responders on his specialty list
- Families planning PGT-A: embryo genetic testing is a named interest, and the testing lab is in-network
- Endometriosis-related infertility: named specialty, alongside fibroids and ovulation disorders
- Anyone who was told they responded poorly to stimulation: “poor responders” is named on his specialty list, and protocol design is what that interest means in a real cycle
- Anyone wanting the reporting rules explained: rare in a treating physician — he helped write the SART and CDC data framework his own results are published under