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About
Dr. Tolga Mesen was still a medical student when he crossed paths with Dr. Tamer Yalcinkaya, who then ran a reproductive endocrinology and infertility division. The two hit it off over a shared interest in infertility treatment, and the clinic’s biography for Mesen credits that meeting with pulling him into reproductive medicine. He now heads the Charlotte end of the same network: the CFI team page carries the title Director, CFI Charlotte, and the clinic’s Charlotte material says he heads the practice there.
His training stayed inside North Carolina. Medical school at Wake Forest University, then a four-year residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, where he was elected chief resident in his final year. Subspecialty fellowship training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility followed at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His profile states board certification in both obstetrics and gynecology and that subspecialty.
Two Charlotte addresses carry his profile, because CFI publishes two: 2614 E 7th St, Suite C and 131 Providence Rd, Suite 200. The clinic describes one shared Charlotte regional team rather than two separate staffs, so the choice of door is a scheduling question. The laboratory is the part that does not move. Both Charlotte offices are monitoring sites; egg retrieval, embryo culture and transfer run out of the network’s Winston-Salem embryology laboratory.
Clinical Expertise
- Infertility assessment and treatment: the clinic names infertility, fertility preservation and minimally invasive surgery as his three specialty areas, and describes him as known in Charlotte and the surrounding area.
- IVF and IUI: both appear as treatment keys on his record. In practice at CFI, the stimulation and monitoring visits sit in Charlotte, and the retrieval and transfer steps sit in Winston-Salem.
- Fertility preservation: on his specialty list, and fertility preservation is a service the network publishes. Our sources do not itemize which banking protocols he runs, and no procedure or cycle count for him is published anywhere in our dossier.
- Minimally invasive surgery: also his own profile’s wording, in the context of infertility. Two limits worth reading before you build a plan on it: no operation list or volumes are published for him, and the Da Vinci robotic surgery CFI advertises as a network offering is performed with hospital partners and is not attributed to Mesen in our sources.
- What is not in our record: no personal outcome figures. The SART row published for CFI covers an eight-office registration whose lab work is concentrated in Winston-Salem, so it cannot be read as this physician’s results.
Why Choose Dr. Mesen
Two board certifications. His profile records certification in obstetrics and gynecology and in the reproductive endocrinology and infertility subspecialty, both as current. That is the two-step route into this kind of practice: general women’s health first, then the fertility subspecialty. For you it means the same physician handles the gynecologic side of an infertility workup and the subspecialty decisions inside a cycle.
Elected chief resident. His Charlotte residency ended with him chosen for the program’s chief resident role in the final year. Our sources do not say what that selection rested on, so read it as a training-phase distinction rather than a measure of clinical results.
He directs the Charlotte practice. The title on the team page is director. Our sources do not describe an administrative or business scope behind it, so read it as clinical leadership of the Charlotte team and nothing more: within CFI’s model, the Charlotte monitoring offices and the Winston-Salem lab are one pathway, and he is the physician at the front of the Charlotte end of it.
Castle Connolly Top Doctor, and what that is. CFI’s biography for him carries the designation, which the clinic defines as the top 7% of US physicians, reached through peer nomination plus a review of education, training and clinical work. Castle Connolly is a commercial directory that lists physicians, so a place in it is not a license, an accreditation or a measured outcome; our sources record no year for the listing. The other Charlotte physician profiled here, Dr. Audrey Garneau, carries the same designation on her profile.
Professional Affiliations
The credential record in our dossier for Dr. Mesen is the board certification pair: obstetrics and gynecology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Our sources list no society memberships for him personally, so treat any claim about ASRM, SREI, SART or ACOG membership as unconfirmed until the office answers. Membership in SART and the AIUM ultrasound accreditation that appear in CFI’s records belong to the practice as a registration entity and across its offices, not to him as an individual. His published language record is English only.
Suitable For
- Work and monitoring near home in Charlotte: evaluation, ultrasound monitoring and HSG are recorded at both Charlotte offices, so the first phase of treatment stays local while the procedural phase does not.
- Infertility with a possible surgical question: his profile lists minimally invasive surgery among its specialty areas, so put the operative question to him at the consult - whether your case needs a procedure at all, and if it does, where it would happen.
- Banking eggs or embryos: fertility preservation is on his specialty list, and the network publishes fertility preservation as a service. What a preservation plan would involve for your situation is not itemized in our sources.
- An IVF pathway where you accept one regular trip: a cycle with him means travel to Winston-Salem for retrieval and transfer, on top of Charlotte monitoring.
- Patients who want continuity with the network’s founder: his working relationship with Dr. Yalcinkaya goes back to his own medical school years, which is how CFI describes the origin of his interest in this field.
Before you commit, ask the office the things our sources do not answer: how often he is at each Charlotte address, what he schedules for surgery, and what your plan costs. CFI publishes no price list for its cycles in our record.