Anupama Rambhatla, MD, FACOG

About

Anupama Rambhatla holds two fellowships, and that is what makes her clinic visits different: minimally invasive reproductive surgery first, then advanced REI training split between the University of North Carolina and Stanford. A patient with deep endometriosis in her Newport Beach clinic can be scoped, cleared and stimulated by the same physician, instead of being handed to a surgeon and handed back.

She is a Southern California native — UCLA undergraduate honors, then Wayne State University for medical school and OB/GYN residency, where she graduated with distinction in biomedical research. Her subspecialty training produced the field’s named honor, the Kamran S. Moghissi, MD Award for Excellence in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, and the Gold Humanism Honor Society, which is chosen by peers and students for clinical compassion rather than publication count. Phi Beta Kappa completes the academic set.

Her research sits on the questions her patients ask: endometriosis and fertility, oncofertility, and what actually happens to pregnancy rates after egg freezing. That work appears in Fertility & Sterility and the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. She splits her practice between HRC’s Newport Beach and Mission Viejo offices, and her stated approach is to make sure patients understand their options well enough to choose, not just consent.

Clinical Expertise

• Endometriosis-associated infertility: medical management, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, and ART sequencing decided by one physician who does both halves
• Minimally invasive reproductive surgery: hysteroscopy, laparoscopy for endometriosis, adhesions, hydrosalpinx and uterine pathology, with surgical decisions framed around subsequent fertility
• IVF cycle management: stimulation protocols individualized to ovarian response, monitoring, retrieval and transfer at HRC’s Orange County campuses, supported by the Newport Beach embryology laboratory
• Oncofertility and fertility preservation: egg and embryo banking arranged against an oncology start date, including urgent-start protocols
• Egg freezing: elective preservation with realistic counseling about how age and ovarian reserve drive outcomes
• Unexplained infertility: completing the workup — tubal, uterine, male factor, ovulatory — before recommending an escalation

Why Choose Dr. Rambhatla

Dual fellowship, and it changes the visit. Surgery plus REI means the question “should this endometrioma be removed before I retrieve?” gets answered by someone competent in both directions, rather than by committee. For patients with adhesions, fibroids or a hydrosalpinx, that removes a referral loop that costs months.

Award-winning in two different currencies. The Moghissi Award is a national research-and-excellence honor in REI. Gold Humanism is the opposite kind of recognition — nominated for how you treat people on a bad day. Holding both is uncommon.

Her publication list matches her clinic. Endometriosis, oncofertility and oocyte cryopreservation outcomes are the three areas where egg-freezing counseling tends to be vague, and she has published in Fertility & Sterility and JARG on precisely those topics.

Orange County coverage in two offices. Newport Beach and Mission Viejo means monitoring scans near home or work — a genuine constraint during stimulation when you are in and out of an ultrasound room every other day.

She teaches patients to decide. Her stated emphasis is empowerment through education, which in practice means you leave the first visit knowing what each test is for and what the next threshold for escalation would be.

Professional Affiliations

Board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Obstetrics and Gynecology, with fellowship training in minimally invasive reproductive surgery and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at UNC and Stanford. Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG); member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine; Phi Beta Kappa; Gold Humanism Honor Society. Research on endometriosis and fertility, oncofertility and egg-freezing outcomes published in Fertility & Sterility and the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics.

Suitable For

Endometriosis, especially with an endometrioma or adhesions. One physician to decide whether surgery improves your path to retrieval, then to run the retrieval.

A cancer diagnosis with fertility still on the table. Preservation cycles coordinated around the date treatment starts, handled by someone whose research topic is oncofertility.

Unexplained infertility with an unresolved surgical question. Patients who have had three rounds of testing and no look inside the pelvis.

Women considering egg freezing who want a surgical-anatomy perspective. Counseling that accounts for what the ovaries and uterus actually look like, not just an AMH number.

Patients who want monitoring close to home in Orange County. Newport Beach and Mission Viejo offices, both with early weekday appointments.