Beth Zhou, MD

About

Beth Zhou finished her reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at UC San Diego and never gave the department up: she is still listed as voluntary faculty there, which is the appointment a clinician keeps when she intends to stay inside the training side of the field rather than only the practice side. It pairs with a training record that ended unusually — named outstanding resident of the year in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and separately outstanding resident of the year in pediatric and adolescent gynecology.

The rest of her training happened in the city she now practices in. A Houston native, she took her biology degree at the University of Houston magna cum laude, then her MD and obstetrics and gynecology residency at Baylor College of Medicine, before heading west to San Diego for the fellowship. Seven years in practice, board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, she holds clinic at both the Main Center on Gessner Road and CCRM’s Texas Medical Center office, working alongside nurse practitioner Kirstie Nash, and is listed as accepting new patients.

Her named specialty interests are PCOS, endometriosis, oncofertility and fertility preservation — the last two overlapping more than patients expect. Someone who has to bank eggs before chemotherapy and someone who wants to freeze eggs before starting a family are asking the same clinical question on two different clocks, and Zhou’s listed focus covers both. She is also one of the few physicians at this practice who sees patients in Chinese as well as English.

Clinical Expertise

• Oncofertility: fertility preservation before chemotherapy or radiation, coordinated with the treating oncology team, with egg and embryo banking decisions made under a treatment deadline
• Fertility preservation and egg freezing: elective preservation for patients postponing family building, and counseling on what a given retrieval is likely to yield
• PCOS: ovulation induction and stimulation protocol design, where the clinical craft is getting one good embryo without over-responding
• Endometriosis: the surgical-and-IVF sequencing question for endometriosis-associated infertility is a named interest
• IVF cycle management: full-cycle care in a practice where single embryo transfer runs above 95% of transfers in this registration’s 2023 data
• Teaching and training: voluntary UCSD faculty appointment, and fellowship training in the same department

Why Choose Dr. Beth Zhou

She handles the deadline cases. Oncofertility is listed among her specialties — patients who must bank gametes or embryos before cancer treatment starts, where the preservation cycle has to be designed around someone else’s schedule.

Two resident-of-the-year awards, and a continuing academic post. Outstanding REI resident and outstanding pediatric and adolescent gynecology resident of the year in training, with voluntary faculty at UC San Diego now. Recognition like that comes from the people who supervised her.

Mandarin-language consultations. Her profile lists Chinese alongside English, which removes the translation layer at the visits where the decisions actually get made.

Recognized early in an independent career: Texas Monthly Rising Star for 2024, Castle Connolly Rising Star, Castle Connolly AAPI Top Doctor, and a Houstonia magazine top doctor listing in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

Two CCRM Houston addresses: Main Center and Texas Medical Center, so monitoring can happen at whichever is nearer.

Professional Affiliations

Board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, per her CCRM profile. Voluntary faculty in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of California – San Diego, where she completed her fellowship. Recognition in the source material: Texas Monthly Rising Star (2024), Castle Connolly Rising Star, Castle Connolly AAPI Top Doctor, Houstonia magazine Top Doctor in REI, and two resident-of-the-year awards from training. Her profile in the material reviewed for this page names no society memberships, so none is claimed here; the practice she works in reports its cycle data to SART under a Houston registration.

Suitable For

• Patients starting cancer treatment: oncofertility is a named specialty, and the preservation window is short
• Egg freezers on their own timeline: fertility preservation is listed, from assessment through retrieval and storage
• PCOS and endometriosis: both named interests, and both conditions where protocol design decides the outcome
• Chinese-speaking patients: consultations available in Chinese as well as English
• Patients wanting a physician who still teaches: a standing academic appointment at UC San Diego, not a past one