Dr. Elan Simckes - Medical Director

Fertility Partnership founder and Medical Director, David Elan Simckes, M.D., is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and has more than 20 years of experience helping families grow. For 17 years, Dr. Simckes was president and senior partner of Women’s Care and Fertility in St. Louis. During that time, he has cared for more than 5,000 women with compassion, exceptional medical skill, and a rare sensitivity to each patient’s unique situation, needs and cultural or religious beliefs.

Dr. Simckes has long had an interest in helping women battle infertility. In the 1980s at Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, he assisted in the laboratory during some of Israel’s first in vitro fertilization procedures. While managing his highly successful OB/GYN practice in St. Louis, Dr. Simckes also honed his infertility care knowledge and skills through ten years of work at the Infertility Center of St. Louis and then with the Sher Institute of Reproductive Medicine.

Beyond his direct patient care, Dr. Simckes also is passionate about sharing his experience and knowledge with the next generation of health professionals. He has been a clinical instructor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis since 1993, and has trained residents at the St. John's Mercy OB/GYN Residency program as well. Additionally, Dr. Simckes has been a preceptor for the nurse practitioner program at the University of Missouri St. Louis School of Nursing since 1995 and a preceptor for the medical assistant program at Sanford-Brown College since 1999.

Dr. Simckes is affiliated with St. John’s Mercy Medical Center and SSM St. Clare Medical Center. Additionally, he has been a member of a number of medical organizations, including: the American Congress of Obstetricians Gynecologists (ACOG), theAmerican Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists (AAGL) and the American Society of Laparoscopic Surgeons.

An active member of the St. Louis community, Dr. Simckes is the founding medical advisor of AWARE, Washington University in St. Louis’ project for prevention of domestic violence and is a former board member of the Youth & Family Center division of the United Way of Greater St. Louis. He also has been a board member of Brith Shalom Knesset Israel Synagogue and an assistant basketball and football coach for the St. Louis Urban League kids’ athletic camps.

Dr. Simckes, his wife Andria, and their three children live in Creve Coeur. His oldest child, Maayan, recently earned a degree in public health from Tufts University. The entire Simckes family is dedicated to ensuring the long-term success of Fertility Partnership so that others may find the same joy they have found as a family.

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