Dr. Tom Gotz

Dr. Tom Gotz is a fertility specialist who sees patients in Calgary.

About Dr. Tom Gotz

Dr. Tom Gotz was fascinated with sciences from an early age and was passionate about the ways in which innovation and research could facilitate change in a positive way. It was this passion for change, coupled with the complexity and challenge required to drive such change, that led Dr. Gotz to the field of medicine. Reproductive endocrinology and infertility is one of the most rapidly evolving and expanding fields in medicine.

Dr. Gotz obtained his medical degree from Queen’s University and was the class recipient of the embryology and histology award. Following the completion of his residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Alberta, Dr. Gotz completed his fellowship in Gynecologic Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto. He is double certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in OBGYN and GREI. Dr. Gotz is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Calgary.

Dr. Gotz’s areas of interest and past research include optimizing IVF cycles for poor ovarian responders as well as reproductive ethics. His paper on the ethical distribution of government-funded IVF from a patient perspective won Best Psychosocial Paper at the Canadian Fertility & Andrology Society 2017 Annual Clinical Meeting. Dr. Gotz has been a past speaker and an organizing committee member for the Canadian Fertility & Andrology Society’s annual reproductive ethics series: The Gatekeeper’s Dilemma.

A typical day at work features a lot of variety and challenges: a day can include technical hands-on procedures such as ultrasounds and egg retrievals, among others, teaching medical students and residents, performing procedures at the hospital, or having the opportunity to see and counsel patients in the clinic.