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About
Elizabeth Pritts sold the clinic she built in 2024, thought that meant retirement, and came back to fertility patients anyway — she contacted a colleague she respected and asked whether there was a need for another set of hands in Michigan. That colleague was Dr. Laura Gago, whose answer, in the practice’s own biography, was to come help care for Michigan families. Pritts now practices reproductive endocrinology at Gago Center for Fertility part-time, across the Brighton, Lansing and Ann Arbor offices; the practice’s own materials list her as a recent addition to the team.
The 17 years she is coming from are the substance of her credentials. She co-founded Wisconsin Fertility Institute in 2007 and was its medical director until the 2024 sale, which means the cycle protocols and the outcome reporting for that practice were her responsibility. Before ownership she taught: assistant professor in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, clinical fellow at the University of California at San Francisco, and instructor at Yale University School of Medicine.
Her training runs down both coasts: Yale obstetrics and gynecology residency in 1998, a Yale gynecological surgical fellowship in 1999, and a UCSF reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship in 2002. Her practice profile states that she is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology with reproductive endocrinology and infertility and in minimally invasive gynecology, and credits her with more than 100 scientific papers on reproduction and fertility plus lectures internationally. She also sits on the board of directors of Family Health Ministries, which supports education and health care for women in Haiti, where her daughters were born.
Clinical Expertise
- IVF and stimulation protocol design: full-cycle management from ovarian reserve assessment through retrieval, fertilization and transfer, carried out by a physician who spent 17 years accountable for a lab’s reported outcomes
- Minimally invasive gynecologic surgery: a dedicated Yale surgical fellowship behind evaluation and treatment of fibroids, polyps, adhesions and uterine cavity problems that block conception or implantation
- Endometriosis-related infertility: surgical and reproductive decision-making about whether to operate before attempting IVF
- Reproductive surgery for tubal and uterine factors: knowing when hysteroscopic correction changes a plan and when it wastes time
- Complex-history consultation: diminished ovarian reserve, prior failed cycles and repeated loss, where a second trained opinion on the protocol is the point of the visit
Why Choose Dr. Pritts
A founder’s view of how a fertility program runs. Most patients meet a physician who prescribes into a laboratory; Pritts spent 2007 to 2024 answerable for one she had built, including the outcome reporting that practice filed. That is the difference between knowing a protocol and knowing what breaks it.
Three certifications, and one of them is surgical. Obstetrics and gynecology, reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and minimally invasive gynecology, all listed on her practice profile — the last is what lets her assess a surgical fix herself instead of referring it out.
Honors belong to her former clinic, and they are dated. The “top 100 fertility practices in the US” distinction for 2023 and 2024 was awarded to Wisconsin Fertility Institute under her direction, and the “Best Doctors in America since 2009” listing appears on her biography page at the clinic’s own website. Neither is a Gago Center credential, and neither is independent verification of anything a patient should assume about this practice. What they do establish is a long record of peer recognition in Wisconsin, in the years immediately before she arrived in Michigan.
Reviewers describe her as direct. Recent Google reviews of this clinic single her out by name — patients writing about a new patient consultation with an honest, realistic physician whose presence was reassuring, alongside one dissatisfied review of a consultation with her. She is a physician who tells you what she thinks, which is useful exactly when your odds are the conversation nobody wants.
Part-time means part-time. She is at Gago Center on a limited schedule; confirm her clinic days before you build a monitoring calendar around her.
Professional Affiliations
Documented appointments rather than society memberships: assistant professor in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, University of Wisconsin Medical School; clinical fellow, University of California at San Francisco; instructor, Yale University School of Medicine; co-founder and medical director, Wisconsin Fertility Institute, 2007-2024; board of directors, Family Health Ministries. The sources reviewed for this profile — her practice biography and the clinic’s registry records — do not document individual membership in ASRM, ACOG, AAGL or any state medical society, and none is claimed here. Board certifications are stated on her practice profile.
Suitable For
- Patients whose infertility has a surgical question attached: fibroids, polyps, adhesions, endometriosis, or a cavity that has failed to hold an embryo
- IVF patients with a difficult history: prior failed cycles, diminished reserve, or a plan that needs reviewing by someone who has built one
- Anyone who wants a plain answer: her own patients’ reviews name candor over reassurance, which is the right trade for planning rather than for comfort
- Second opinions on a lab and transfer strategy: the perspective of a physician who owned the laboratory reporting the outcomes
- Patients who can flex their schedule: part-time availability, so the calendar is built around her clinic days