Peter Brinsden

Dr. Peter Robert Brinsden MBBS, MRCS, LRCP, FRCOG (born September 2, 1940) is known for the treatment of infertility in couples. From 1989 to 2006 he was the Medical Director of Bourn Hall Clinic in the UK, a leading centre for the treatment of fertility problems, and where about 6,000 babies have been conceived using IVF and other assisted conception treatments.

Peter Brinsden was born in Peking in China in 1940. He lived in China, the United States, Canada and Hong Kong until 1950. Brinsden was educated at Rugby School, King's College London and St George's Hospital Medical School. He qualified MBBS and MRCS, LRCP in 1966.

Brinsden joined the Royal Navy in 1966, and served as Ships Medical Officer 1969-1970. He started training as a gynaecologist in 1970 in military and civilian NHS hospitals until 1978. He qualified DObst RCOG in 1981, MRCOG in 1976 and was elected FRCOG in 1989. Brinsden was made a Consultant Gynaecologist in 1978, with a principal interest in infertility treatment.

He retired from the Royal Navy in 1982 with the rank of Surgeon Commander. Brinsden served as a Consultant at King Fahad Hospital, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia 1982-1985 and then at Bourn Hall Clinic under Patrick Steptoe, the IVF pioneer who, with Professor Robert Edwards, was responsible for the birth of the world's first IVF baby Louise Brown in 1978.

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