Briana J. Rudick

About

Egg donation, sperm donation and a gestational carrier are three separate medical processes that have to run at the same time, and someone has to be responsible for all three at once. At Columbia University Fertility Center that is Dr. Briana J. Rudick, who directs the Third Party Reproduction Program and holds an Assistant Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her program screens donors, matches them, attaches the legal and psychological counseling the center offers, and then manages the recipient’s cycle; the center attributes its results in this area to donor screening rigor and to the support services its donors receive.

The rules she practices under are New York ones, and they changed recently. Compensated gestational carrier agreements became legal in the state under the Child-Parent Security Act of 2021, which also allows intended parents to secure a pre-birth order rather than litigate parentage afterward. Egg and sperm donation fall under Article 28 of the state’s Public Health Law, which requires written agreements and, for known donors, legal and psychiatric review before anything is used. The center’s own standard adds a six-month quarantine on sperm from a known donor. None of this is background noise for a patient building a family with a known donor or a gestational carrier; it is the reason a program needs a physician who runs it continuously.

She trained in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania (2012) and completed her Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility fellowship at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine (2015). Her research into vitamin D and fertility was picked up by Cosmopolitan and other national outlets, and Fertility and Sterility Reports named her one of its outstanding reviewers — a role that means manuscripts cross her desk before they reach print. Public listings put her at 4.9 out of 5 across 69 reviews. The center itself operates from 5 Columbus Circle, with a monitoring site in White Plains and a Teaneck, New Jersey office planned — relevant for carrier and donor patients who do not live in Manhattan.

Clinical Expertise

• Egg donation cycles: Anonymous and known donors, with screening, matching and recipient cycle management under one program
• Gestational carrier and surrogacy programs: Screening and coordination of the carrier, the genetic parents and the embryo transfer, inside New York’s post-2021 parentage framework
• Sperm donation: Anonymous and known donors, including the center’s six-month quarantine protocol for known-donor samples
• LGBTQ+ family building: Reciprocal IVF, where one partner provides eggs and the other carries; IUI or IVF with donor sperm for female couples; egg donor plus gestational carrier for male couples
• Fertility preservation for transgender patients: Egg, embryo or sperm banking before hormone therapy or surgery, planned individually
• IVF and egg freezing: Standard cycles for patients who need them before or instead of donor-based treatment

Why Choose Dr. Briana Rudick

She holds the job, not just the interest. Third-party reproduction is a named program with a named director, and that director is the physician patients consult. Donor, carrier and recipient all pass through the same clinical oversight.

Legal literacy is part of the role. New York rewrote its surrogacy statute in 2021. A program director working inside the Child-Parent Security Act, Article 28 donation rules and pre-birth order practice every cycle is a different prospect from a physician who handles one such case a year.

A review record with volume behind it. 4.9 out of 5 across 69 reviews — enough independent opinions that the average carries weight rather than reflecting one lucky quarter.

She reviews for the journal her patients read about. Fertility and Sterility Reports named her an outstanding reviewer, and her own research on vitamin D and fertility drew coverage from Cosmopolitan and other national outlets.

Professional Affiliations

American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Reviewer for Fertility and Sterility Reports, recognized by the journal as an outstanding reviewer. Director of the Third Party Reproduction Program and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University, practicing within Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian, with the center’s satellite site in White Plains and a New Jersey location planned.

Suitable For

• Intended parents using a gestational carrier: She directs the program, and New York’s 2021 statute makes compensated carrier agreements enforceable with pre-birth parentage orders
• Egg donation patients, known or anonymous donor: Screening, matching and recipient cycle all run through her program
• Lesbian couples considering reciprocal IVF: One partner’s eggs, the other’s pregnancy, which requires a program that coordinates two patients at once
• Male same-sex couples building a family: Egg donor plus carrier, arranged with the center’s legal and psychological counseling attached
• Transgender patients banking gametes before medical transition: Preservation planning is part of the LGBTQ+ service she works within
• Patients who want a large review sample to judge from: 4.9 out of 5 across 69 reviews is a substantial record for a single physician