Alexandra Huttler, MD

About

One of Alexandra Huttler’s first-author papers asked how often the same diagnosis produces different surgery depending on a patient’s race, using tubal ectopic pregnancy as the test case. That question — who actually gets which reproductive care, and why — runs through her published work on ART outcomes, on racial and ethnic disparities, and on the ethics of genetic testing in IVF. She is now a reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellow at Boston IVF, holding clinic at the Downtown Boston center and at South Portland, Maine.

Fellow is a precise word, and it is worth knowing what it means here. Huttler has finished medical school and a full obstetrics and gynecology residency at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, where she served as Chief Resident, the senior teaching and coordinating role in a residency class. She is now completing subspecialty training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility inside Boston IVF’s accredited fellowship program, which the network runs with Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. REI board certification sits at the end of that training, not before it, so on this Maine roster she is the physician still in subspecialty education, working under the center’s attending endocrinologist rather than practicing independently.

Her undergraduate degree is in biology from Duke University, with a certificate focus in human development, and her medical degree is from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Since 2022 she has published in Fertility and Sterility, F&S Reports and Contraception on reproduction as a window into women’s later health, the effect of the pandemic on how patients view planned egg freezing, the ethics underneath embryo genetics, and a surgical case series on uterine evacuation in patients with two cervices. She won an ASRM Resident In-Training Award in 2021.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF care within a fellowship practice: evaluation, stimulation and follow-up for fertility patients, with treatment decisions made jointly with the attending reproductive endocrinologist
• Female infertility workup: history, hormonal assessment and uterine and tubal evaluation, including the HSG and saline sonography this office lists
• Egg freezing and fertility preservation: an area she has studied as well as practiced, including how patients think about planned oocyte cryopreservation
• Genetic testing decisions: counseling input on PGT and embryo selection, the ethics of which are her named research subject
• Disparities-aware care: published research on unequal treatment within reproductive medicine, applied to how options get presented to patients
• Surgical exposure from residency: chief resident training in obstetrics and gynecology, including the operative case series in her publication list

Why Choose Dr. Alexandra Huttler

She is a fellow, which cuts both ways. She is not yet board-certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and her Maine patients are also seen by the center’s attending endocrinologist. What you get in exchange is a physician whose entire research record is about how IVF decisions should be made — prediction, selection, ethics and access — and who reads the literature her own training program produces.

Two cities on one appointment book. Clinic at Downtown Boston and South Portland means a patient who travels between the two can stay with the same clinician across a cycle, and telehealth cover extends to both Massachusetts and Maine.

Chief Resident pedigree from Pennsylvania Hospital. The Chief Resident year is the role a program gives the resident it trusts with coordination and teaching; she also won the ASRM Resident In-Training Award in 2021, a national prize at that stage of training.

A publishable record before fellowship. The practice’s profile lists five papers since 2022, several in Fertility and Sterility, on subjects that bear directly on the questions IVF patients are actually asked.

Professional Affiliations

Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility fellow at Boston IVF, the practice group’s accredited fellowship program run with Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Recipient of an ASRM Resident In-Training Award in 2021, issued by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine; our sources do not list her society memberships or the dates of her residency appointments. Publications appear in Fertility and Sterility, F&S Reports and Contraception. She consults at Boston IVF’s Downtown Boston and South Portland, Maine centers, within the practice that reports its Maine cycles to SART.

Suitable For

• Patients beginning or mid-way through IVF in Maine, who will also be seen by the center’s board-certified endocrinologist
• Patients deciding about PGT, or uncomfortable about what embryo genetic testing can and cannot answer
• Patients considering planned egg freezing, for family timing rather than medical reasons
• Patients splitting time between Boston and greater Portland, who want one clinician at both ends
• Anyone who wants their workup explained by a physician who researches disparities in reproductive care