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About
Abbaa Sarhan had been practicing reproductive medicine in the Washington metro area since 2011, and spending four of those years as a practice director, before joining CCRM’s Northern Virginia office in 2025. That sequence is unusual on this staff: she arrives at CCRM having run the operational side of a fertility clinic — scheduling, staffing, the mechanics of how a stimulation calendar actually gets executed.
She is board-certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, trained at George Washington University School of Medicine for her medical degree and obstetrics and gynecology residency, and at Eastern Virginia Medical School for her REI fellowship. Her clinical focus is IVF and fertility preservation, and she names a specific problem as her interest: making IVF more efficient without making the patient’s experience worse. Those two goals pull against each other in most clinics, where fewer cycles and fewer monitoring visits mean less information gathered per patient.
She teaches medical students and residents at several academic institutions and has received teaching awards for it, which shows up in the consultation rather than the procedure room. She is fluent in Arabic and sees Arabic-speaking patients without an interpreter, an uncommon language access point in Northern Virginia fertility care. Of her own field she says: “It is a privilege to work in a field where I can follow a patient through one of the most personal, challenging, but also amazing journeys of their lives.”
Clinical Expertise
- IVF cycle design: ovarian stimulation planning, monitoring interpretation and transfer timing, with efficiency of the pathway as a stated clinical priority
- Fertility preservation: egg freezing for patients delaying childbearing, and preservation ahead of chemotherapy or radiation
- Reproductive endocrine assessment: diagnosis and management of the hormonal and ovulatory disorders that underlie infertility
- Patient counseling: education on options and trade-offs before a protocol is chosen, from a physician who describes empowerment through information as part of the visit
- Practice operations: four years directing a fertility practice, which covers how cycles get scheduled when calendars and bodies do not line up
- Clinical teaching: instruction of medical students and residents at multiple institutions, with teaching awards
Why Choose Dr. Abbaa Sarhan
Fourteen years here, not transferred in. She has practiced in the Washington area since 2011 and joined CCRM in 2025 as an established local physician, which means her experience is in this patient population and these referral networks.
A board certification you can check. Her profile states certification in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, the subspecialty that governs stimulation protocols and lab coordination.
Care in Arabic. Fertility treatment is full of instructions where a mistranslation costs a cycle — injection timing, monitoring windows, medication changes. Sarhan consults directly in Arabic, with the credentials listed under her memberships being ASRM and ACOG.
She runs a teaching practice as well as a clinic. Academic appointments across several institutions and named teaching awards point to consultations where the reasoning behind a protocol gets explained.
Professional Affiliations
Board-certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Physician at CCRM Fertility of Northern Virginia’s Vienna main center, the office covered by the SART registration filed as CCRM Virginia, LLC. Education: George Washington University School of Medicine (MD and OB-GYN residency); Eastern Virginia Medical School (REI fellowship). Recognized in Washingtonian Magazine Top Doctors, Northern Virginia Magazine Top Doctor and Arlington Magazine Top Doctor listings.
Suitable For
- Patients planning IVF who want a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist setting the stimulation protocol
- Egg freezing and preservation patients, including those starting cancer treatment soon
- Arabic-speaking patients and families who want the physician, not an interpreter, explaining the cycle
- Anyone who wants the options explained before deciding — counseling and education are named parts of her practice
- Patients referred from Northern Virginia OB-GYN practices, where she has worked since 2011