David E. Reichman, M.D.

About

Most IVF specialists treat Asherman syndrome occasionally. Patients fly to Dr. David Reichman for it. Intrauterine scarring — usually after curettage, infection or surgery — can close the uterine cavity and make implantation impossible, and its hysteroscopic repair demands an unusual combination of reproductive endocrinology and fine surgical work. Reichman’s management of the condition, including cavity reconstruction, draws referrals from across the United States and internationally.

That surgical niche sits inside a broad practice at Weill Cornell’s Center for Reproductive Medicine, where he is an associate professor of clinical OB/GYN and clinical reproductive medicine and an associate attending at NewYork-Presbyterian. His general scope covers IVF and ICSI with stimulation plans tuned for high and low responders, egg freezing and fertility preservation, donor eggs, ovulation induction, PCOS, recurrent pregnancy loss, male factor and LGBTQ+ reproductive services.

His training chain reads like a directory entry — Yale undergraduate (Cum Laude), Weill Cornell medical degree, Harvard OB/GYN residency (where he won the Emans-Goldstein and teaching awards and an AAGL minimally invasive surgery residents award), then REI fellowship back at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including Fertility and Sterility, Human Reproduction and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, serves on the editorial boards of Fertility & Sterility and the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, holds research awards from SREI, ASRM and the New York Obstetrical Society, and has been recognized by Weill Cornell for excellence in teaching. He sees patients at the Upper East Side flagship and the Tribeca office.

Clinical Expertise

• Asherman Syndrome Surgery: hysteroscopic scar resection and cavity reconstruction, with follow-up protocols to prevent re-scarring — a national referral draw
• IVF / ICSI Full Management: individualized stimulation for high and low responders, cycle planning from protocol to transfer
• Fertility Preservation and Egg Freezing: elective and medical indications, run through the center’s vitrification program
• LGBTQ+ Reproductive Services: donor sperm, donor egg and surrogacy pathways with cycle management for intended parents
• Recurrent Pregnancy Loss and Implantation Failure: systematic workup of uterine, endocrine and embryonic factors
• Operative Hysteroscopy and Laparoscopy: polyps, fibroids, endometrial and ovarian disease treated minimally invasively

Why Choose Dr. Reichman

Referral-level surgical handling of a rare problem. If scarring has closed or damaged the cavity, you want the surgeon whose schedule is built around reopening it, not an occasional case.

Both sides of the field. Board-certified REI who is also recognized as a skilled operative surgeon — medical stimulation and cavity surgery coordinated by one physician.

Publishing and gatekeeping simultaneously. A long peer-reviewed record plus editorial seats at Fertility & Sterility and JARG keep him current on the evidence his protocols cite.

Teaching-recognized. A Weill Cornell excellence-in-teaching award is a proxy patients can use: he explains a plan until it makes sense.

Professional Affiliations

Member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Double board-certified by ABOG in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Honors include Cornell’s William J. Ledger Award, Harvard’s Emans-Goldstein Award, an AAGL Special Resident Award in Minimally Invasive Surgery, the ASRM K.Y. Cha Stem Cell Techniques Award, the Jones Institute’s Abby and Howard Milstein Award for Research in Reproductive Medicine, and a Fertility & Sterility Star Reviewer award.

Suitable For

• Asherman syndrome and recurrent scarring: the referral diagnosis that defines his surgical practice
• Patients preserving fertility before chemo, endometriosis surgery, or simply time: egg and embryo freezing programs
• LGBTQ+ intended parents: donor gamete and gestational pathways managed start to finish
• Repeated IVF failure: implantation-focused evaluation combining cavity surgery and stimulation redesign
• International patients: a practice built to receive US and overseas referrals for complex cases