Adrienne Gentry, DO

About Adrienne Gentry

Adrienne Gentry spent the years straight after her own fellowship teaching the residents who came after her. At Virginia Tech – Carilion School of Medicine she held the title of assistant professor and carried the job of assistant clerkship director for the OB/GYN medical students, which is the role that decides what trainees actually see in clinic. She also sat as adjunct faculty at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She now practices IVF in Jacksonville.

She is board-certified twice over by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology — in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, the subspecialty that covers fertility drugs, egg retrieval, embryo transfer and donor programs. She earned her medical degree as a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, trained in residency at Virginia Tech – Carilion, and completed her REI fellowship at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Her stated clinical interests are third-party reproduction, fertility preservation, recurrent pregnancy loss, patient education and patient-centered wellness. At Florida Institute for Reproductive Medicine she sees patients at the Baptist Downtown and Baptist South sites in Jacksonville.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF and assisted reproductive technology — full-cycle management: stimulation protocols, monitoring, retrieval and transfer. The clinic performs ICSI and embryo freezing alongside it.
• Recurrent pregnancy loss — evaluation of patients who have had repeated miscarriages, which in practice means working through uterine anatomy, chromosomes, clotting and endocrine causes before proposing another cycle.
• Third-party reproduction — treatment built around donor eggs, donor sperm or a gestational carrier, including the matching and screening steps that come before any cycle starts.
• Fertility preservation — egg, embryo and tissue freezing for patients whose fertility is threatened by timing, surgery or cancer treatment.
• Diagnostic work-up — the baseline testing that decides which treatment is worth doing: hormone panels, imaging of the uterus and tubes, and semen analysis for the partner.

Why Choose Dr. Gentry

She holds both certifications, not just one. Many fertility clinics list physicians who are certified in obstetrics and gynecology only. Gentry’s ABOG certification covers REI as well, which is the subspecialty qualification for running IVF programs, and it is the certification that makes her eligible to sign off on stimulation protocols and retrievals.

She has taught the pipeline she now works in. Being clerkship director for OB/GYN students is a teaching job with administrative weight — scheduling what residents see and assessing their clinical work. Patients who ask how current a physician’s technique is often get a better answer from someone who has to teach it.

Her stated focus is the harder cases. Recurrent loss and third-party reproduction are the two areas where cycles are planned around uncertainty rather than around a single protocol, and both are listed as her clinical interests rather than added as generic tags.

She is affiliated with the field’s two main US bodies. She is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Professional Affiliations

Gentry is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the main US professional body for fertility clinics and reproductive medicine specialists. She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Her academic appointments were at Virginia Tech – Carilion School of Medicine, where she was assistant professor and assistant clerkship director, and at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine as adjunct faculty.

Suitable For

Patients who have lost pregnancies repeatedly. Gentry’s recurrent-loss focus suits patients with two or more miscarriages who need a structured work-up rather than another transfer scheduled on hope.

Donor-egg, donor-sperm and gestational-carrier families. Third-party reproduction involves screening, legal and coordination steps on top of the medical cycle, and it is one of her declared areas.

Patients freezing eggs or embryos before treatment or before time runs out. Fertility preservation covers elective egg freezing and preservation ahead of chemotherapy or surgery.

Anyone starting IVF in the Jacksonville area. She is based at the Baptist Downtown and Baptist South clinics and sees the full range of infertility presentations, not only complex cases.