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About
Before Dr. Cary L. Dicken moved her practice to Long Island, she ran clinical operations. She spent more than six years as Associate Medical Director at the Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine in New York City, a role that meant carrying responsibility for how cycles were managed across a busy Manhattan practice rather than only for her own patients. She joined RMA of New York - Long Island in the autumn of 2020 and is one of two reproductive endocrinologists listed on the Melville office’s team page.
She holds board certification twice over: in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She took an anthropology degree at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Magna Cum Laude, then a medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, followed by obstetrics and gynecology residency at Columbia University, where she served as Administrative Chief Resident. Her subspecialty training came at Montefiore Medical Center, and she then stayed on faculty at Columbia as an assistant professor in obstetrics and gynecology from 2011 to 2014.
Her named clinical interests are IVF combined with preimplantation genetic testing, PCOS, endometriosis as it relates to infertility, fertility preservation through egg and embryo freezing, and reproductive care for LGBTIA+ patients and single parents. She has published more than 20 papers and presents at international meetings. She is affiliated with Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital, accepts new patients in person or by video, and has discussed egg freezing with Vogue, Wall Street Journal Magazine and Business Insider, and PCOS on CBS News.
Clinical Expertise
- IVF with preimplantation genetic testing: her stated focus is pairing stimulation and retrieval with embryo biopsy and PGT, the route patients take when they want a tested embryo transferred in a later cycle
- PCOS: diagnosis and ovulation management, a subject she discusses publicly and has been interviewed about on network news
- Endometriosis-related infertility: assessing how endometriosis affects fertility and what treatment sequence follows from that assessment
- Fertility preservation: egg and embryo freezing for elective family planning, and before medical treatment that threatens fertility
- LGBTIA+ and single-parent reproductive care: named as a clinical focus, which shapes protocol choice and how donor sperm or gestational carrier paths get coordinated
Why Choose Dr. Cary L. Dicken
She has run a program, not just a panel. Six-plus years as Associate Medical Director at the Sher Institute means she has sat on the administrative side of cycle scheduling, lab coordination and complex case decisions — the machinery that determines whether a treatment calendar behaves the way it was promised to.
Dual certification, plus a teaching record. Board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and three years on Columbia’s ob-gyn faculty. Reproductive endocrinology is the subspecialty that manages the hormones behind stimulation; the ob-gyn base is what makes uterine and pelvic pathology part of the same conversation.
Her credentials are individually documented. Castle Connolly Top Doctor from 2020 through 2023, New York Super Doctor in 2020, Patient’s Choice Award in 2017, the Endocrine Society Presidential Award and the Society for Gynecologic Investigation / Pfizer President’s Award, both 2011, Alpha Omega Alpha at medical school in 2004, and the American Medical Women’s Association Glasgow-Rubin Achievement Award, also 2004.
Press attention that tracks her actual subspecialty. Vogue, Wall Street Journal Magazine and Business Insider have quoted her on egg freezing and fertility preservation; CBS News interviewed her about PCOS. Those are the two topics on her own clinical-interest list, so ask her the same questions the interviews did: how many PGT-tested transfers she runs in a year, and what she tells a 38-year-old patient about odds.
Professional Affiliations
Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG). Board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 2004. Affiliated with Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital. She taught on Columbia University’s obstetrics and gynecology faculty from 2011 to 2014, and her work has been published in peer-reviewed literature and presented at international meetings.
Suitable For
- Patients with PCOS: ovulation induction and stimulation protocols in a condition where response varies enormously from one patient to the next
- Anyone planning IVF with genetic testing of embryos: PGT is a decision about sequencing — freeze, test, transfer later — and it is a named focus of hers
- Endometriosis and infertility together: where surgical history, pain and ovarian reserve all pull on the same plan
- Egg or embryo freezers: both elective preservation and preservation before cancer treatment or other gonadotoxic therapy
- LGBTQ+ patients and single parents: family building that requires donor sperm, donor eggs or a gestational carrier, coordinated with New York’s legal requirements