Professor John Yovich MBBS MD (PhD) FRCOG FRANZCOG CREI graduated MBBS from UWA in 1970, progressing into Specialist O&G practice in 1976. Following laboratory research and clinical work over four years in London (1976–1980) with Professor Ian Craft, John presented his PhD thesis “Human pregnancies achieved by in-vitro fertilization”, conferred UWA in 1985. During those seminal years in London, John was exposed to all of the new innovations in Reproductive Medicine in each area, including Embryology, taught to him by the very pioneers in their fields. John brought all these new ideas back to his hometown Perth, where he established PIVET Medical Centre in 1981, generating WA’s first IVF child in July 1982. John assisted many IVF clinics to establish worldwide and formed PIVET Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur with Dr Haris Hamzah, whose first IVF infant was born May 1987. He also assisted the first IVF pregnancy to be generated in Greece in 1986, with the infant delivered in May 1987. John achieved CREI subspecialty in 1992. He has an adjunct position as Clinical Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at Curtin University. His publications in high impact factor journals exceed 200; he has an RG score of 44.77 and h-index of 37. Apart from PIVET in Western Australia, John is Medical Director of Cairns Fertility Centre in Queensland and PIVET Fertility Darwin in the Northern Territory.