Surrogacy Secrets: Dr. Don Royster & Nurse Egypt Fitts on Matching, Screening, and Success

In this episode of The Surrogacy Scoop, we sit down with Dr. Don Royster and Nurse Egypt Fitts of Southern California Center for Reproductive Medicine to uncover the medical insights that make surrogacy journeys successful. This dynamic duo shares their unique paths to the fertility industry, how their diverse professional backgrounds enhance their work in reproductive medicine today, and their perspectives on the rapid evolution of assisted reproduction and IVF technology.

Dr. Royster and Nurse Fitts open up about their individual career paths that led them to specialize in fertility treatment and surrogacy medicine. Dr. Royster discusses his training in reproductive endocrinology, what drew him to the field of helping people build families, and how his medical philosophy shapes his approach to treating intended parents and working with gestational carriers. Nurse Egypt shares her background in nursing and what inspired her transition into reproductive health, explaining how her previous healthcare experiences provide unique perspectives that benefit patients navigating IVF and surrogacy processes. Dr. Royster explains innovations in embryo culture techniques, improvements in cryopreservation that make frozen embryo transfers as successful as fresh transfers, and advances in preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) that allow for comprehensive embryo screening.