Chantel Cross, MD

About

Chantel Cross ran the fellowship program that trains reproductive endocrinologists at Johns Hopkins — the same institution where she completed her own REI fellowship — before leaving academic medicine for clinical practice. That is a different seniority track from simply finishing training there: directing a fellowship means deciding what the next generation of specialists is taught about stimulation, miscarriage workup and laboratory coordination.

Her clinical focus is the patient who has conceived and could not carry: recurrent pregnancy loss. The evaluation runs through uterine anatomy, endocrine and clotting causes, chromosomal factors and, where embryos are involved, genetic testing — a workup that is mostly about deciding which of several plausible explanations deserves treatment. Her broader practice covers PCOS and ovulatory disorders, endometriosis, fibroid and ovarian cyst related infertility, diminished ovarian reserve, and fertility preservation.

She is also an academic publisher who kept writing after leaving the faculty. Cross has published on reproductive health, access to fertility care and disparities in treatment, and speaks at conferences and webinars by invitation. She holds clinic in the region’s two halves — Vienna, and CCRM’s Rockville, Maryland office — and trained first at UCLA for her medical degree, then at Hopkins through residency and fellowship.

Clinical Expertise

• Recurrent pregnancy loss: systematic evaluation of anatomical, endocrine, thrombophilic and chromosomal causes after repeated losses, with a management plan for the next attempt
• Diminished ovarian reserve: assessment and stimulation strategies for patients with a narrowing window or a poor response in a previous cycle
• PCOS and ovulatory dysfunction: induction of ovulation and metabolic management, including monitoring for hyperresponse
• Endometriosis and uterine pathology: treatment of the adhesions, endometriomas, fibroids and cysts that interfere with conception or implantation
• Fertility preservation: egg and embryo freezing for patients delaying childbearing or facing gonadotoxic treatment
• Academic medicine and health equity: publications and invited lectures on access to fertility care and disparities in reproductive outcomes

Why Choose Dr. Chantel Cross

She directed the training program. Few clinicians at a metro-area practice have held the director role for an REI fellowship at Johns Hopkins; it is the position that sets the curriculum rather than completes it.

Miscarriage is her named focus. Recurrent pregnancy loss is listed as a specialty rather than an occasional case, which is the difference between a workup that stops at the first normal result and one that keeps going.

She publishes on the system, not only the science. Her written work covers access and disparities in fertility care — the practical question of who gets treated and who does not.

Two offices, one physician. Vienna and Rockville coverage gives patients on either side of the Potomac a clinician who does not change between appointments.

Professional Affiliations

Reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist, trained at the University of California Los Angeles (MD) and at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she completed obstetrics and gynecology residency, REI fellowship, a faculty appointment as assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics, and the directorship of the REI fellowship program. Physician at CCRM Fertility of Northern Virginia in Vienna and at CCRM Fertility of Rockville, within the SART registration for CCRM Virginia, LLC. Her profile describes a fellowship-trained specialist; the reviewed material does not state board certification, so confirm certification directly if it is a deciding factor.

Suitable For

• Patients with two or more losses who want a structured cause-by-cause evaluation rather than another attempt
• PCOS patients with irregular ovulation or a history of over-response to stimulation
• Endometriosis, fibroid or ovarian cyst related infertility, where anatomy drives the plan
• Egg or embryo freezing on a medical or personal deadline
• Anyone who wants a physician with an academic training background directing the cycle