Rafael Cabrera, M.D.

Houston IVF

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Dr. Rafael A. Cabrera is Medical Director of Houston IVF. Dr. Cabrera received his Baccalaureate Degree and Medical Degree from the University of Puerto Rico. Following medical school, he completed an internship at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. Dr. Cabrera was then assigned to the 2nd Marine Division as the General Medical Officer and was subsequently deployed to the Mediterranean. Upon returning to the United States, he then completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist for five years before doing his fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the prestigious Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk Virginia.

Prior to joining Houston IVF, Dr. Cabrera served as the Acting Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the Walter Reed Medical Center. Dr. Cabrera has over ten years of experience in instruction, teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. He was on the faculty of the Combined NICHD/Federal Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He also served as Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Eastern Virginia Medical School and at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dr. Cabrera is board-certified in both Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the European Society of Human Reproductive and Embryology. Dr. Cabrera has done research and published articles on the expression of prostaglandins by the monkey ovarian surface epithelium, the effect of suppressed follicular phase LH serum levels in assisted reproduction, ovarian reserve, and the impact of ovarian endometriomas in the outcome of IVF cycles