Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility Fellowship
About the Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility Fellowship
The mission of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) Fellowship program is to ensure that, upon graduation, our fellows are able to practice independently as skilled and compassionate specialists who are committed to lifelong learning and professional growth. In alignment with BIDMC’s mission to serve all patients regardless of race, religion, country of origin, immigration status, disability or handicap, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, military services or source of payment, we prepare our clinicians to be adaptable in a variety of workplace settings with diverse patient populations. BIDMC partners with Boston IVF, one of the largest IVF programs in the country, to provide comprehensive evaluation, advanced treatment and compassionate support for infertility as well as menstrual, adrenal and related abnormalities.
The goals of our fellowship program are to:
- Prepare graduates to engage in teaching and research making contributions to the advancement of knowledge in our specialty, clinical or basic science, as a faculty member in an academic department.
- Train practitioners who can serve as the leader of a quality assurance, quality improvement, or patient safety team in their practice setting.
- Produce practitioners who will work to achieve health equity by mitigating disparities because they value the importance of diversity, inclusiveness and belonging in the workplace and recognize the challenges faced by diverse communities who lack access to care.
- Develop socially well-adjusted fellows through a programmatic focus on physician well-being because emotionally healthy physicians will be more resilient and able to deliver the best care to our community.
Our fellowship program is three years, with 12 months of protected research time and 24 months of clinical and surgical reproductive medicine and infertility. The clinical surgical experience consists of adult endocrinology, menopause, urology and male infertility. Fellows will rotate in Pediatric Endocrinology at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Our Teaching Faculty
- Alan Penzias, MD
Fellowship Program Director - Thomas Toth, MD
Associate Fellowship Program Director - Emily Seidler, MD
Associate Fellowship Program Director - Michael Alper, MD
Medical Director, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Boston IVF - Brent Barrett, PhD
Chief Laboratory Director, Boston IVF - Sara Arian, MD, FACOG, MSci
Boston IVF - Pietro Bortoletto, MD, MSc
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Boston IVF - Michele Hacker, ScD, MPH
Epidemiologic Research - Robert Oates, MD
Urology, Boston Medical Center
- Johanna Pallotta, MD
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism - Nina Resetkova, MD, MBA
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Boston IVF - Denny Sakkas, PhD
Scientific Director, Boston IVF - Rita Sneeringer, MD
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Boston IVF - Kim Thornton, MD
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Division Director, Boston IVF - Denis Vaughan, MD
Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility - Lauren Murphy, MD
Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility - Ari Wassner, MD
Rotation Director, Pediatric Endocrinology
Meet Our Fellows
Alexandra Huttler, MD
PGY5
Residency
University of Pennsylvania
Medical School
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Quetrell Heyward, MD, MBA
PGY6
Residency
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Medical School
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Riwa Sabbagh, MD
PGY7
Residency
Baylor College of Medicine
Medical School
American University of Beirut