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About
When a family at Mayo Clinic’s Rochester fertility division has to be built with donor sperm, donor eggs or a gestational carrier, the program that makes it happen answers to Dr. Chandra Paff Shenoy — medical director of Mayo’s Third Party Reproduction Program, the service she describes in her own profile as helping “build families when donor sperm, donor eggs, or gestational carriers are required.”
Her route to that chair ran across the country: medical school at St. Louis University, ob/gyn residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and MetroHealth Medical Center, then a three-year reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at Mayo Clinic, where she also completed a master’s in biomedical sciences. She is board-certified by the ABOG in ob/gyn (2016) and in the REI subspecialty (2019), and she is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
The teaching side of the job runs close to the clinical side: she is assistant program director for Mayo’s REI fellowship program, working with medical students, residents and fellows. Her stated interest is helping build families of all kinds, with explicit advocacy for single individuals, the LGBTQ community and couples dealing with infertility or pregnancy loss — which is also, not coincidentally, exactly what the third-party reproduction program serves.
Clinical Expertise
- Third-party reproduction: donor egg cycles, donor sperm use and gestational carrier programs, as the medical director who coordinates them.
- Complex IVF: her clinical focus within infertility, including preimplantation genetic screening and diagnostic testing (PGS/PGD interests).
- IUI and ovulation induction / superovulation: first-line and stimulation-based treatment alongside ART.
- PCOS and endocrine causes of infertility: polycystic ovary syndrome, thyroid and prolactin disorders, primary ovarian insufficiency all appear on her treated-conditions list.
- Recurrent pregnancy loss: evaluation and management as a named interest.
- Procedures and diagnostics: egg retrieval, egg and embryo freezing, hysteroscopy including operative hysteroscopy, 3D ultrasound, sonohysterography, hysterosalpingography, sperm collection and freezing, genetic counseling.
Why Choose Dr. Paff Shenoy
She runs the program you would need for donor or carrier family building. Medical-director authority over third-party reproduction means the matching, screening and cycle design sit with her, not a coordinator three steps away.
An advocate with the credentials to match. Her profile names single individuals and the LGBTQ community as populations she specifically works for — on top of ABOG dual certification in ob/gyn and REI.
She shapes the next generation of specialists. As assistant program director of Mayo’s REI fellowship, the training standards of the division pass through her desk.
Recognized inside the institution — Mayo’s Above and Beyond program gave her both its Teamwork and Excellence recognitions in 2024.
Professional Affiliations
Voting member of the Surgery & Surgical Specialties Graduate Education Committee at Mayo Clinic Rochester (2025-present) and former scholarship committee member for the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (2024-2026). She teaches on Mayo’s ob/gyn and REI training teams.
Suitable For
- Donor-egg and donor-sperm families: cycles designed by the program’s own medical director.
- Gestational carrier paths: including the combined donor-egg-plus-carrier route the division lists.
- Single parents by choice and LGBTQ+ family builders: a stated advocacy focus, matched to a formal service line.
- Hard IVF cases: complex IVF is her named subspecialty interest within infertility.
- PCOS, repeat loss, or endocrine infertility: conditions squarely on her treated list.