Bonnie G. Patel, MD

About

Bonnie Patel was on the Wake Forest University OB-GYN faculty for six years — assistant professor in the department’s reproductive endocrinology division from 2012 to 2018 — before returning to the city she grew up in to join ACRM in September 2018. The research she left behind is still the clearest marker of what she does: she co-investigated grant-funded work including an NIH Research Project Grant (R01) on fertility preservation in adolescents and young adults, the population whose cancer diagnoses arrive before families do.

Her clinical interests line up with that record: oncofertility, assisted reproduction, and minimally invasive surgery. In practice that means the patient who needs embryos or eggs frozen before chemotherapy starts on a deadline set by an oncologist, and the endometriosis patient for whom laparoscopic surgery and the IVF plan have to be sequenced rather than guessed at.

The practice’s profile lists her as board-certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She has trained in Georgia end to end — University of Georgia biology, Medical College of Georgia medicine — then residency at the University of South Carolina and fellowship at Case Western Reserve University.

Clinical Expertise

• Oncofertility: egg, embryo and sperm freezing coordinated against cancer-treatment timelines
• Fertility preservation research: NIH R01 grant work on preservation in adolescents and young adults, as co-investigator
• Minimally invasive reproductive surgery: laparoscopic and hysteroscopic approaches to fertility-limiting conditions
• Endometriosis-associated infertility: surgical and assisted-reproduction strategy in sequence
• IVF and assisted reproduction: stimulation, retrieval and transfer in ACRM’s CCRM-operated lab system
• Recurrent pregnancy loss: evaluation as a stated part of her practice

Why Choose Dr. Patel

She taught the subject. Six years as a Wake Forest assistant professor in reproductive endocrinology — the academic-appropriate profile ACRM’s About page says its physicians carry, embodied by one specific member of the team.

Grant-level preservation experience. An R01 is the flagship NIH research project grant; her name is on fertility-preservation work funded at that level — rare air for a private-practice IVF physician.

Surgery and IVF from one physician. Her stated interests pair the operative and the assisted-reproduction sides of endometriosis care, so the plan doesn’t get lost between two clinicians.

Professional Affiliations

Member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists. The practice’s profile adds the Thompson B. Gailey Award for the top CREOG examination score from her residency at the University of South Carolina, and editorial work on ACOG’s PROLOG reproductive endocrinology textbook (8th and 9th editions).

Suitable For

• Patients about to start chemo, radiation or surgery: preservation first, family planning second — her named specialty
• Young adults and adolescents needing banked gametes: the exact population of her NIH grant work
• Endometriosis patients weighing surgery versus IVF: one physician who lists both as interests
• Couples rebuilding after losses: recurrent pregnancy loss evaluation inside a surgical practice