thefloridacatholic.org
2026-09-11
For years, reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Joseph Davis believed he was helping families achieve their dreams. As a fertility specialist, he spent his days guiding couples through infertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization, commonly known as IVF.
Today, he is still helping families, but his focus looks very different.
Recalling his medical education, upon graduation he felt confident. "For me, that really was the ultimate sort of focus. We're not only helping people at this wonderful time in their lives, but we're actually helping people to achieve pregnancy. And that's a really, really great thing.
"I'm here to help people have families. And that always, to me, felt like a very good mission, a very positive goal, very sort of morally focused goal," he said. Specializing in infertility he noted covering some restorative practices and taking "a deep dive into the underlying factors with fertility." But he said once he started practicing medicine, "everything started converging or focusing on in vitro fertilization (IVF)."
He said the choice boiled down to statistics. "The rationale of the people who go this path is, well, if our goal is to help people have a baby, what's the most efficient, kind of best way to get people there on a truly numbers standpoint?" he explained. So, he focused on becoming the best at his job, leading to world recognized status in the field of IVF.