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Reproductive Care Center
Full service infertility program in Salt Lake City Utah. Free initial infertility consultations. Offering ovulation induction, laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, clomiphene, letrozole, donor egg, donor embyo, gender selection for genetic disease prevention, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), sperm banking, embryo cryopreservation, in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and intrauterine insemination (IUI). Staffed by board certified reproductive endocrinologists. CAP certifed laboratory. Excellent pregnancy rates. Member of SART.
hours of operation
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday - Friday
Weekend hours as needed for ART procedures.
Appointments for initial consultations are also available on Tuesday evening, Saturday and 7:00 am M-F as needed.
contact information
1220 E 3900 S
Suite 4G
Salt Lake City, UT
84124
phone number: (801) 268-0306
email address: info@Hope4Baby.com
web address: www.fertilitydr.com
healthcare providers
Dr. James S. Heiner, M.D.
Dr James S. Heiner is the founder of the Reproductive Care Center, the first private practice infertility and IVF center in the state of Utah. The center opened in 1996, followed by the start of the IVF service in April 1997. The first five patients undergoing the procedure conceived and the center has had excellent pregnancy success rates ever since. Dr Heiner’s goal is to deliver the highest quality fertility care, employing a very caring and competent staff and the latest available techniques. He is excited to work now with Dr. Keith L. Blauer, a renowned fertility specialist who adds several areas of expertise.
Dr Heiner was born in Salt Lake City, Utah; he has also lived in Little Rock, Arkansas; Montreal, Canada; Southern California; Provo, Utah; Paris, France ( 2 years as a missionary); and Galveston, Texas. He majored in Microbiology at BYU and studied Biochemistry at the University of Utah before earning his Doctor or Medicine degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) in 1985. He then completed a four year residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at UTMB. During this time he served as chief administrative resident and was honored with the “Good as Gold” award for superior patient care. He then completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Centers in Los Angeles in 1991. Dr Heiner stayed on the full time faculty at UCLA until 1996. While there he served as the acting director of the fellowship program in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, and was also the director of the fertility clinic and endoscopy surgical services for the Department of OB/GYN at Harbor-UCLA medical center. Dr Heiner then moved to his home town of Salt Lake City to establish the first private practice of IVF in the state. Dr Heiner is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
Dr Heiner has been happily married to Ranae Lake since 1978, and they have six children. In addition to patient care and family life, Dr. Heiner loves sports, exercise, and outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, biking, fishing, photography, and travel.
Dr. Keith L. Blauer, M.D.
Dr. Keith L. Blauer was recently the Infertility Medical Director, Chief Executive Officer and President of Genetics & IVF Institute (GIVF) in Fairfax, Virginia. GIVF is one of the largest fully integrated providers of infertility and genetics services in the world.
After spending 21 years east of the Mississippi River, he is excited to return to the intermountain region and be more involved in direct patient care, which he states is his “true love”. Dr Blauer was raised in the farming community of Burley Idaho and graduated from Burley High School in 1973. He served as a missionary for the LDS church in the Japan Fukuoka Mission from 1974-1976. He completed his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Zoology at Brigham Young University in 1979 and then received a Health Professions Scholarship from the United States Air Force to attend the University Of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He was elected to AOA (Medical Honor Society) prior to graduation from the University of Washington in 1983.
Dr. Blauer completed a four year residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Keesler USAF Medical Center in Biloxi Mississippi. Fellowship subspecialty training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility was obtained at the Combined Federal Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). During his fellowship he was actively involved in organized medicine and was the Armed Forces Junior Fellow District Chairman of the American College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists (ACOG). He is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
From 1989 to 1993 Dr. Blauer directed the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility service at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio and established the first affiliated in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) program in the Department of Defense. The first patients that participated in both the IVF program and the GIFT program conceived. Upon completion of his military commitments, Dr Blauer joined Reproductive Endocrinology Associates and the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology with the Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, South Carolina. He completed his MBA in 1996 with a certificate in Healthcare Administration from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. During his business training he focused on developing shared risk and money back guarantee programs for infertility patients.
In 1997, Dr Blauer joined the Genetics & IVF Institute as a Senior Reproductive Endocrinologist in their internationally renowned infertility program. He has been actively involved in their IVF, donor egg, donor embryo, reproductive surgery and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) programs. He helped train physicians and staff from several of the premier IVF programs in China and assisted in developing and opening an IVF Center in Harbin, China in 2002. For the past five years he as been the medical director and principal investigator of the MicroSort FDA clinical trial testing the efficacy and safety of the preconception use of flow cytometers for separating “male and female” sperm.
Dr. Blauer has been on the faculty of four medical schools including the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Wright State University (WSU), University of South Carolina (USC) and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He is a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (SREI), the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART), the Society of Reproductive Surgeons (SRS) and the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
Dr. Blauer has been happily married to Raye Jean Bosley since 1977. They have 6 children and three grandchildren. He has enjoyed many high adventure trips while working in the Scouting program and especially enjoys white water rafting.
Dr. Liping Cai, M.D.
Liping Cai, M.D. has served as the Laboratory Director at the Reproductive Care Center since 1998. She earned her first professional degree in medicine (equivalent to Doctor of Medicine) from the Gannan Medical College in China. This required 5 years of specialized training, after which she served on the laboratory research faculty for several years. She joined Dr. Heiner at UCLA in 1993, and served as his director of molecular biology research until 1995. In 1997 she moved to Utah to join the Reproductive Care Center laboratory staff, and in 1998 became it's director. She guided the embryology and andrology laboratories here to be awarded the highest possible lab accreditation in the United States, by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) in 2001.