Dr. F. Nicholas Shamma, MD

About

The number that anchors Dr. F. Nicholas Shamma’s profile is 8,000 — IVF cases he is credited with performing. Alongside the clinical volume sits a research record: more than 150 publications and abstracts, including a study of intra-amniotic infection and preterm delivery in twins that the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology counts among the 50 most-quoted papers in the field. He works as a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at Pinnacle Fertility - Bloomfield Hills, the practice that operated as IVF Michigan until 2025.

His training started at the American University of Beirut, where he graduated first in his class with highest distinction in 1985. Residency followed at Yale New Haven Hospital in obstetrics and gynecology, with the Andrew Friedman Award for best graduating clinical chief resident, plus externships in gynecological oncology and gestational trophoblastic disease at Harvard. He returned to Yale for a two-year fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and holds board certification in both specialties.

He is based at the Bloomfield Hills address and also sees patients at Grand Rapids, Saginaw and Ann Arbor in Michigan and at Toledo, Ohio. Pinnacle’s physician profiles give him a medical-director title, the same title the practice uses for Dr. Ahmad Hammoud; the clinic has not published how the two roles divide. He sits on the advisory board of Men Having Babies, which matches the third-party reproduction and LGBTQ+ family-building work in his clinical list.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF cycle management: stimulation through embryo transfer, on a base of more than 8,000 cases
• ICSI: used where male factor infertility or fertilization failure is the problem
• Preimplantation genetic testing: embryo screening before transfer, a named area of his expertise
• Recurrent pregnancy loss: workup and treatment for patients who have lost pregnancies
• Third-party reproduction: donor eggs and gestational carriers, the pathway his advisory-board role covers
• Polycystic ovary syndrome and congenital uterine anomalies: both listed among his specialties
• Fertility preservation: egg and embryo freezing for patients delaying or protecting parenthood

Why Choose Dr. F. Nicholas Shamma

Case volume you can point at. “More than 8,000 IVF cases” is the clinic’s own figure for him. High cumulative volume matters most when cycles go sideways — poor response, failed fertilization, repeat losses — because those are the situations experience actually accumulates from.

He publishes, and one paper is a field citation. The intra-amniotic infection and twin preterm birth study remains among AJOG’s 50 most-quoted papers. That is a specific, checkable claim rather than a general line about academic involvement.

Two-stage Yale training. Residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, then a two-year Yale fellowship in his subspecialty, with the department’s award for best graduating clinical chief resident in between.

Third-party paths are part of his practice, not an add-on. Donor egg and gestational carrier work appears both in his clinical expertise list and in his Men Having Babies advisory board seat — relevant if you are a gay male couple, a single parent by design, or anyone who needs donated gametes or a carrier.

Professional Affiliations

Board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Elected to Alpha Omega Alpha in 1985. Awards recorded on his profile: Human Neuroanatomy Award (1981) and Pediatrics Award, American University of Beirut (1983); Andrew Friedman Obstetrics and Gynecology Award, Yale (1990); Sergey Polivanov Memorial Scholarship (1991). Advisory board member, Men Having Babies.

Suitable For

• Patients with recurrent pregnancy loss: his named specialty area is systematic evaluation of why pregnancies are not continuing
• PCOS patients: listed among his clinical focus areas, where stimulation protocols need adjusting
• Anyone building a family through donated eggs or a gestational carrier: third-party reproduction is core to his practice, and the clinic routes these cases through Pinnacle Egg Bank and Pinnacle Surrogacy
• LGBTQ+ patients and couples: family-building programs are part of the location’s service list, and his advisory-board work is in this space
• Patients considering PGT: preimplantation genetics is one of his stated specialties
• Uterine factor problems: congenital uterine anomalies appear in his expertise list, which matters for transfer planning
• Egg or embryo freezing: fertility preservation is listed as one of his areas