Robert Boostanfar MD

I feel so blessed and grateful that Dr. Boostanfar selected me to participate in an on going IVF clinical trial. Not only did I get pregnant on my first try but it was completely FREE. I feel so lucky and thankful to be apart of this once in a lifetime opportunity.
(The clinical trial is still going on. So if you are struggling with infertility and want a free IVF cycle call to see if you qualify.)
Thank you Shanise and Dr. B for my little miracle. You guys are truly the best!

We owe everything to Dr. Boostanfar!
We tried to conceive for 5 years, and almost started the ivf process in Beverly Hills. We decided to get another opinion, and went to HRC.
Dr Boostanfar figured out the problem that we were having, when no other Doctor could. We had a lot of issues we were dealing with, and we trusted him and did whatever he said.
We now are halfway through our pregnancy and have another healthy embryo stored for later.
He saved us so much heartache, and truly performed a miracle.
We trust him completely and would recommend him to anyone trying to have a baby. He travels all over the world to teach and attend fertility seminars.
If we would have gone with someone else, it could’ve resulted in many miscarriages, or even worse.
We are so thankful to him and the staff at Hrc.

Dr Boostanfar has 5 stars for a reason! My husband & I just met with him today and we can’t say enough good things. He was very informed about our situation after reading all of our charts prior to our appointment, we were both very impressed with that! Our consultation was very informative and we left with a better understanding of the «game plan» Dr. Boostanfar has for us. We’re looking forward to continuing to work with him to get pregnant!

Dr. Boostanfar really helped us believe that we could have another baby after trying to conceive for several years. He was really there for us. We are so happy with our beautiful girl, Samantha. She is 14 months now. Dr. B is the best! Dr. B and his staff are kind, warm, and always made me feel comfortable.

My husband and I first visited HRC in 2008, a friend had recommended Dr. Boostanfar to us and we are so thankful that she did. We had been to a Westside Fertility Clinic and had not liked the Doctor, he felt very impersonal. Once we met Dr. Boostanfar and his staff we knew that we were in good hands, most of all he gave us hope. You are not just a patient to Dr. Boostanfar you are family to him. We are now blessed with three beautiful children that would not have been possible without his caring guidance and expertise.

Simply incredible. Almost every staff member there (nurses, billing, Dr. Boostanfar) are all so friendly and calming and very supportive! My husband couldnt make it to one of our appointments, so Dr. Boostanfar sat by my side during the ultrasound to support and comfort me. Ive never had a doctor with that level of bed side manner!

If you are struggling with infertility, there is no one else I would trust other than Dr. Boostanfar and his staff. Being an older woman, I had no idea whether we would ever be able to conceive. Dr. Boostanfar thoroughly explained to us all of our options, provided guidance based on his many years of experience and high level of expertise, and was very understanding of how emotional this process can be. Through every minute of it all, I felt like I was under the best care possible. His staff are professional and extremely comforting. We worked mainly with Shanice and Jennifer who were just as happy as we were when we received our wonderful news. We are now expecting our first child, and I can’t express how grateful I am for everything that Dr. Boostanfar and his staff have done for us.

HRC, Dr. Boostanfar and the staff, are miracle workers! We tried for so long to conceive naturally and thought it was hopeless. It was a long road but now we’re 5 months pregnant and everything is going great thanks to HRC. Every step of the way Dr. B was there to provide us with all of the info we needed and was always available for the many, many questions that came up. His staff was also so friendly, nice and encouraging for every phone call and visit. It was invaluable during this process to have a doctor and staff that we could trust. Definitely very highly recommended.

I am not satisfied with Dr. Boostanfar. After reading so many positive reviews about the doctor, we decided to visit him. I found him always in hurry and always tries to push his views. When we first saw him and showed him my reports, he first said, we did not need IVF, but insemination is our only choice. We can’t become pregnant naturally. We were not convinced, he kept on convincing us about doing the insemination as soon as possible. We avoided for a few weeks. Later after a few months of trying, we did one round of IUI. no success. He gave us high dose of climid 100 mg along with injectible through the stomach. My wife started complaining about the pain and the severe headache with this high dose in the very first try.
It was too painful an experience for us. Also, it caused my wife an ovarian cyst and we had to stop the further cycles for a few weeks. To handle that, he put us on a high dose of pregnancy pill for two weeks. I learned from other doctor that it should be given for 3 weeks one pill a day. But he gave us two pills a day for two weeks.
Then we decided, we will look out for another doctor.
And we visited Dr Marrs. and found him very friendly and easy to talk with. He told us not to go for IUI for another 6 months and looking at our test results, he felt we have a great chance of becoming pregnant naturally. He did not push for IUI or IVF at all.
And by god’s grace, we became pregnant naturally in another 3 – 4 months. No IUI.
I just feel these facilities are only there to make money and do not really care about patients and don’t guide them in the right direction.
He may be knowledgeable and qualified, but I would rather wish the doctors now a days should become more compassionate and try to put themselves in patient’s shoe.
Overall very bad experience.

There are not enough words to express my love, gratitude, respect, and appreciation to Dr. Boostanfar and his fantastic Encino team. The facility is very inviting and accommodating, his staff are the most amazing group of woman. You really feel that they care for you. When it’s bad news, you can hear that they have empathy for you and when it’s great news you can tell that they celebrate with you. Thank you to Jennifer B. for the continuous followup, attention, and compassion. Thank you to the girls who so patiently and gently take your labs, even when it means having bad veins. Thank you to the finance girls who make the billing and payment process so smooth and easy to manage on any budget. Thank you to Dr. Peck for taking care of me when Dr. B was unable to and making me feel like I’m her personal patient. Most of all, thank you to the most caring, considerate, compassionate, understanding, optimistic, knowledgeable, passionate and kind man. Dr. B, from day one you have made us feel that I was going to be a mommy once more, that you will help us and guide us through the process and the result will be what we wanted. You have kept every promise and your optimism and expertise is so greatly appreciated and acknowledged.
Here is my story… My husband (34) and I (31) have a healthy and beautiful 8 year old daughter, who was conceived naturally, and quickly. I was pregnant again when she was 4 years old, but unfortunately that pregnancy ended up in a D&C because a heartbeat never developed. Since then, we have been trying for a second child. I went to see another fertility specialist in BH a few years ago and after only a few minor tests he determined that I had PCOS, that I would produce too many follicles and will have to inevitably do IVF and that was my only option without even trying other less invasive alternatives. Deep down inside, I refused to believe this. I tried almost every possible homeopathic and Chinese medicine practice their was; herbs, teas, acupuncture, ovulation kits, basal body temp logs, and even leaches, yes those blood sucking worms. Spent A LOT of money to only get no response.
I am young and didn’t understand why as my daughter was naturally conceived without any issues. Every month my periods were so irregular and every time my period decided to show its ugly face I would go into depression mode. I cried myself to sleep so many nights. It was horrible and I began to lose hope.
Another year had passed, now 4 years after the D&C, I went to see my incredible OBGYN, who recommended that I see Dr. B. I waited for about a month for the next available appt and am so grateful for the wait. Upon the first consultation, Dr. B was extremely personable, honest, realistic, but yet very optimistic. I told him my story, gave some blood and a few other tests. Dr. B. confirmed that I did NOT have PCOS, wow!!! Than what? I started with a hormone med in the form of a pen injection, followed by a back to back IUI (intrauterine insemination) cycle. The first attempt did not work as my follicle were large, but did not fully mature. I was sad, but I knew that I had to keep hope, I knew that I was in the best hands possible.
Next month, I started a different medication combo, after 2 weeks, I had 1 mature follicle 19 mm and we did 1 IUI attempt that month. My amazing husband was able to produce 114.7 million sperm after wash which were injected into my just ovulated uterus. 12 days later, I received the best news in the world. Jennifer called me to say, «congratulations Marina, you’re pregnant». I was shaking and crying and thanking her a thousand times all at once. I graduated from Dr. B’s practice at 10 weeks and am now 18 weeks, expecting a healthy baby boy this summer.
I promise you, this is the best of the best, le crème de la crème. It is worth every penny, every NO until you get that YES!!! Dr. B is a doctor, not a businessman. He care about and for his patients and their husbands, wives, partners, etc.
Dr. B and all the staff will always have a very dear place in our hearts. He made our dreams come true, there are not enough words or expressions of gratitude to show how much you mean to us. We love you Dr. B. and thank you forever. My son just kicked and validated his gratitude as well. :-)

Dr. B is wonderful. He is thoughtful, compassionate and smart. In addition to being a great doctor he has a great lab he works with. The two key components to a successful pregnancy is a great doctor and a successful lab. If you have one but not the other your outcomes may not be optimal. Thank you Dr. Boostanfar for being who you are.

I left this review for HRC Encino as well, but since we have been seeing Dr. Boostanfar, I wanted to leave the review here also.
My wife and I went through six years of fertility challenges before getting pregnant and having our first wonderful baby girl. We went through multiple IUI and IVF, we even used HRC in Pasadena (we live in the Pasadena area) before switching to Dr. Boostanfar in HRC Encino.
After our first two IVF (with HRC in Pasadena) we decided to look for someone new.
Dr. Boostanfar was recommended independently by multiple sources and he was in our round of interviews for a new doctor (I believe we interviewed three different ones).
We are very glad we went with Dr. B. Even from our first initial appointment, his energy and enthusiasm and sincerity was a comfort. He was also out-​of-​the-​box in his discussion with us and yet very practical because after each recommendation or discussion point my wife and I would be thinking, «well, yeah I guess that does make sense».
And now we have had a total of three IVFs with Dr B and HRC Encino (after the first two in HRC Pasadena), and we are three for three with Dr. B, expecting our third early 2014. And in Dr. B’s words «So now I’m batting 1,000 with you guys right?»
We consider Dr. B our miracle worker and shudder to think what our lives would be like without him. Thank you Dr. Boostanfar and HRC Encino!

I was recommended to HRC Encino by someone who works in another HRC office (too far from me). She said all the doctors at HRC Encino were wonderful. My first impression to my last appointment is that everyone there is fantastic. They are all so nice, helpful and real!
I didn’t know anything about infertility, treatment or how anything worked. I had never been to a Reproductive Endocrinologist. After deciding to try HRC, I had to figure out which doctor. I noticed that Dr. Boostanfar got great reviews online and when I called to make an appointment, I was told that it would be a while because he was very busy. This appealed to me because I figured if he’s that busy there’s probably a good reason. I’m incredibly happy that I went with my gut and waited because he was WONDERFUL. He is very confident and no nonsense, but also very sweet. I felt that he honed in on my personal situation and made a special plan just for me. He provided such good care that I felt very safe, comfortable and I trusted him. I had one complete IVF Cycle that was pretty pleasant (considering what it involves). It was successful!!! I graduated today at 10 weeks pregnant from his care.

We went to Dr. Boostanfar in 2012 after seeing 3 previous RE’s and several failed IUI, IVF and frozen embryo transfer procedures. Dr. B was so easy to talk to and never made us feel like he was in a hurry as some of the previous RE’s had. The staff at HRC Westlake Village and Encino was amazing. So professional and always answered all of our questions! The protocol was clear and I was always made to feel a priority. Upon our first visit, he actually found an abnormality that required surgery which no other Dr. had found. After that surgery and a «freeze all» IVF procedure, we became pregnant with twin boys and carried to 37 weeks! They are beautiful, happy, healthy 11 month olds now! I am so grateful to Dr. B and his staff for my little miracles!

We are now 12 weeks pregnant and graduated from Dr. B last week! We cannot explain how excited we are. Br. Boostanfar was very confident that we will get pregnant and it happened. We still cannot believe it.
Dr. Boostanfar is the best, the staff is wonderful. Everything is done on time, I never had to wait in the office during appointments. The nurse called you right away with results.
I highly recommend Dr. B. We will forever be thankful to him.
Love,
H & M

After consulting with 2 previous IVF dr’s, by chance I came across Dr. Boostanfar through a recommendation from the donor agency we chose. I am absolutely thrilled I ended up in his care. We live about 45 min away and I was concerned about the distance from his office but the frequent trips were well worth the visit to his office. I knew he was the Dr for me because he is a combination of very pleasant and down to earth bedside manner and confidence. I immediately felt this was the Dr to help me through this journey. I am now going into my second trimester. I am in my 40s and had one miscarriage (natural pregnancy) followed by 1+ yr of difficulty getting pregnant after that.
I always was attended to by polite office staff and when Dr. B wasn’t in town for some reason, Dr Peck was also very nice and also very pleasant. Dr. B was always a good listener and always very warm. My husband and I are very grateful we found him and we highly recommend him and the HRC staff.

Words cannot begin to describe how happy my husband and I have been with HRC Encino & Dr. Boostanfar! We were very confused as to where we should turn when we knew we had to begin fertility treatments. We shopped a lot of doctors & had other personal recommendations that didn’t pan out — Thankfully, we were pointed in the direction of Dr. Boostanfar, and from the second we stepped foot into his office for the first consultation we knew we had found a home.
Dr. Boostanfar is such an incredibly physician. He is direct & to the point, he is incredibly knowledgeable & can answer any question you ask, but he is warm & friendly — He always greeted us with a smile, me with a hug and my husband a handshake. You can tell that he loves what he does, and is invested in your success. There is not one single part of us that ever questioned his judgement, nor his motives (i.e. having you come back & spend more money, etc). For my husband and I, it was also important that we found someone that had a great personality — we enjoy making light-​hearted jokes in this stressful situation, and Dr. B was always a fun sport with us. I never wanted to «graduate» from his care, although so thrilled that we did… I wish Dr. B delivered babies, was a pediatrician, a general practitioner and everything in between so I could only see him!
The HRC staff is also so incredible! Everyone there cares about you. They greet you with a smile, call you by name, follow up and answer emails in a very timely manner, and more importantly — They really treat you like you are part of their family. They are upset when they have to tell you bad news, and so thrilled when they get to share your success. I looked forward to seeing my girls at every appointment — Jennie & Shanise — And even the super lovely Ivy who has the horrible job of taking your money, yet always asked how the appointment went to make the financial burden feel a little softer. :)
As far as our story — We had one failed round of IVF, and our 2^nd round was a success! After our 1^st failed attempt, there was no one that we wanted to turn back to besides Dr. Boostanfar — We trusted him at every turn, no matter what the outcome. And he made our 2^nd try worth while — He was proactive in making sure he changed medication and took different steps in hopes of my body reacting differently, and he was right! I have so much compassion for other women suffering from infertility — It is a horrible position to be in, and the process can be so hard on your body and a roller coaster of emotions — but in a crappy situation we found a family that loved & supported us in HRC, and because of them it has been one of the best experiences of our lives.
I would recommend them to anyone & everyone, I am their cheerleader!!!

Dr Boostanfar is simply amazing!!! He is extremely knowledgeable. He makes you feel at ease when you are there. He makes you feel like he is just as interested in getting you pregnant as you are. He used some creative tactics to make our dream come true and we are now proud parents of a 6 week old boy! If you have trouble getting pregnant I highly recommend Dr B and the entire staff at HRC. They are all wonderful. The best fertility clinic anywhere!

Dr. Boostanfar is a gem. He has excellent bed side manner and gives his patients 120% care. He gave my sister two twins and I do recommend him to everyone. His office is clean and staff very efficient.

HRC Fertility, specifically Dr. Boostanfar is the place to go if having trouble conceiving. He came highly recommended by my OB and it turned out that a couple aquantainces of mine had actually gone to him as well. Make a long story short, Dr. Boostanfar makes it very clear from day 1 that his job is to get you pregnant and get you out of there. He doesn’t fluff a lot and can occasionally be short, but he is very caring and will give you time if you need it. I went with the flow with everything, I just put my trust in him since he is one of the best and in God and it all worked out.
His staff plays a major role in your experience and everyone is incredible, from the front desk, to back office, to RN’s, P.A.‘s, you name it, everyone has a very personalized and hands on approach with what you are going through. You are not a number here and every one is consistently compassionate no matter how high your hormones are running.