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Missouri Fertility – Meet the Team 2025

By Inside Columbia
meet the team mo fertility

Missouri Fertility has been a trusted leader in advanced reproductive technology since 1997. They help individuals and couples turn their dreams of parenthood into reality. Recognized as one of the nation’s top fertility clinics Newsweek, their dedicated team works closely with each patient to deliver compassionate and personalized care, ensuring that each patient’s unique needs and goals are met with attention and respect.

At Missouri Fertility, family is at the heart of everything they do — and they are passionate about helping you grow yours. The clinic offers a comprehensive range of services, from fertility preservation and in vitro fertilization to intrauterine insemination, third-party reproduction and advanced reproductive surgery. Missouri Fertility ensures that each patient has access to the best options on their unique journey to parenthood.

Their commitment extends beyond medical care; they understand fertility challenges can be both physically and emotionally taxing and are there to support and guide patients through every step of the process. From the moment you walk through their doors, you can count on receiving cutting-edge medical treatment coupled with compassion and understanding.

Missouri Fertility is dedicated to making your fertility journey as smooth, supportive and successful as possible. Missouri Fertility prides itself on upholding core values such as integrity, honesty, transparency, family, and passion. Gilbert Wilshire,MD, says, “These guiding principles are central to the clinic’s mission and create an environment of success and positivity for both our team and our patients.”

The team is the center of Missouri Fertility —they’re a highly skilled group of individuals working together to provide time-sensitive and complex care for patients that requires a high degree of coordination and collaboration, where timing is everything. “We have a team that makes coming to work every day exciting,” practice manager Kelsy Rich says. “Even when the job is stressful, we know we have each other, and our success would not be possible without our entire team.

Missouri Fertility
573-443-4511
missourifertility.com

Gilbert Wilshire, MD, FACOG – Physician/President
Kelsy Rich – Practice Manager
Hunter Wilshire – Marketing & Business Development Coordinator
David Wax – Embryologist, Lab Manager
Jaime Hogerty, PhD – Lab Director
Leslie DeSha, FNP, APRN – Fertility Nurse
Kalli Francis – Sonographer
Krystal Cohen, RN – Fertility Nurse
Krystal Canine, RN – Fertility Nurse
Diane Sapp – Medical Assistant
Lyndsi Logan – Fertility Coordinator
Hannah Bagley – Medical Scribe
Melissa Fudge – Senior Embryologist
Victoria Schulte – Andrology Lab Tech
Ashley Coplin – Administrative Assistance
Nicole Albert – Administrative Assistance
Ashley Baker – Patient Coordinator
Miranda “Xen” Decourley – Receptionist
Nicole “Nic” Jackson – Practice Administrator
Gauge “Korin” Brown – IT Specialist

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