Aimee Ferrandino, MD, FACOG

About

Fifteen years as an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center, spent largely on early pregnancy management, is the background Aimee Ferrandino brought to Conceptions when she joined in August 2022. She also taught there — her Duke years included training generations of OB/GYN residents — and she arrived in a fertility practice from the side of the field that handles what happens in the weeks after a transfer, which is where her early pregnancy focus and her surgical skill meet.

Her own account of her credential is precise, and so is this page. She describes herself as a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist with a special interest in reproductive health. She is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The material reviewed here documents her OB/GYN residency at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island and her Duke faculty years; it does not record a reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship or an REI subspecialty certificate for her. If you specifically want a subspecialty-trained REI for a complex stimulation case, ask the practice which of its physicians hold that credential — six of the physicians profiled here completed REI fellowships.

The rest of her training is unusual for this group in a useful way. She grew up in New York in a family of educators and lawyers and was the first in it to enter medicine, taking a biology degree at Binghamton University summa cum laude with an emphasis in genetics before her medical degree at NYU School of Medicine. Genetics is not decoration in an IVF practice: carrier screening, PGT-M decisions and reading a family history all require someone comfortable with inheritance patterns. Her peers describe her as a compassionate, devoted and talented surgeon and a skilled clinician, and she is an advocate for the patients in front of her.

She moved to Colorado for family reasons — her husband, whom she met at NYU, has siblings and children in Denver — and named a second reason: “It was extremely important to me to live in a state where women’s health, reproductive choice, and individual decisions are paramount.”

Clinical Expertise

• Minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery: the operative side of an infertility evaluation, where uterine, tubal and pelvic anatomy has to be looked at rather than inferred
• Early pregnancy management: fifteen years of academic focus on the first weeks of pregnancy, relevant to patients with loss or with high-risk early scans
• IVF within a team practice: evaluation through transfer, at a center whose published 2023 results sit above SART’s national figures on every age band this page carries
• Genetics-informed care: carrier screening and preimplantation genetic testing conversations grounded in a genetics degree rather than a reference manual
• Resident-level teaching habits: she has trained physicians, which shows up most clearly in how she explains a plan

Why Choose Dr. Aimee Ferrandino

She can operate. On a physician team built around laboratory and medication management, a laparoscopic surgeon is the person who shortens the path from “your tubes look abnormal on the HSG” to a decision.

She reads a pedigree. A summa cum laude genetics emphasis plus a patient population increasingly asking for carrier screening before conception is a specific match, and she has said she came to Conceptions knowing she had surgical skill and clinical judgment to contribute.

Academic medicine, not a private-practice pipeline. Duke faculty years mean her protocols have been argued about in a department, which tends to produce physicians who can explain the alternative they rejected.

A stated reason for choosing this state. She came to Colorado partly because of its position on reproductive choice, which for an out-of-state patient is a real logistical and legal consideration when treatment is time-sensitive.

Professional Affiliations

American Society for Reproductive Medicine; Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (Fellow) — the memberships carried on this practice’s provider listing. Board certification in obstetrics and gynecology is stated in her profile; an REI subspecialty certificate is not documented in the material reviewed for this page.

Suitable For

• Patients with a surgical question: suspected endometriosis, fibroids, tubal factor or uterine anatomy where laparoscopy changes the plan
• Recurrent early pregnancy loss: fifteen years of academic early pregnancy management is the deepest single block of that experience on this team
• Families with a known genetic condition or a worrying pedigree: carrier screening, PGT-M discussion and interpretation of results
• Second opinions from patients who want a surgeon’s read: an OB/GYN who trained residents at a university hospital
• Patients who want plain-language teaching: an educator’s habit, from someone who was first in her family to enter medicine