John Edmond Buster (born July 18, 1941) is an American physician who, while working at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, directed the research team that performed the first embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. It was performed at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center,[1] reported in July 1983, and culminated in the announcement of the birth on February 3, 1984.[2] In the procedure, an embryo that was just beginning to develop was transferred from the woman in whom it had been conceived by artificial insemination to another woman who gave birth to the infant 38 weeks later. The sperm used in the artificial insemination came from the husband of the woman who bore the baby.[3][4]
Buster and other members of the UCLA research team were featured in People Magazine,[5] and Time Magazine.[4] Building upon Buster's research, over 200,000 live births resulting from donor embryo transfer have been recorded by the Centers for Disease Control(CDC)[6] in the United States.[7][8][9]
Buster continues to practice medicine as a reproductive endocrinologist at Women and Infants' Fertility Center in Providence, Rhode Island.[10]
^"Research Accomplishments". Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
^Blakeslee, Sandra (3 February 1984). "Infertile woman has baby through embryo transfer". New York Times. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
^Friedrich, Otto (10 September 1984). "Medicine: A legal, moral, social nightmare". Time. Archived from the original on February 16, 2009. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
^ abWallis, Claudia (1984-09-10). "The New Origins of Life". Time. Archived from the original on January 14, 2005. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
^Jares, Sue Ellen (1983-08-08). "A UCLA Doctor, First to Transplant Human Embryos, Offers Hope to Infertile Women". People. 20 (6). Retrieved 27 June 2014.
^"Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)". Centers for Disease Control. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
^"Dead URL" (PDF). Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause magazine. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-20.
^"Dead URL". Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause magazine. Archived from the original on 2007-10-08.
^Mendell, Patricia; Benward, Jean. "Talking with Children About Ovum Donation". American Fertility Association - Infertility and Family Building. Archived from the original on 2013-05-11. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
^"John Buster, MD | Women & Infants' Fertility Center". Women & Infants' Fertility Center. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
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