Dr. Miyako Funabiki

About

Dr. Miyako Funabiki took an unusual road into reproductive medicine: first a psychology degree at Kobe University’s Faculty of Letters, then a medical degree at Hyogo College of Medicine. After clinical posts at Hyogo College of Medicine Hospital, Nishinomiya Central City Hospital and Palmor Hospital (Kobe), she joined Medical Corporation Oak in 2005, where counseling and hands-on ART practice remain a single specialty for her. She consults at both the Osaka and Tokyo branches of the group.

She trained at the University of Edinburgh in immature oocyte culture methods — laboratory techniques relevant to patients with low egg yield or PCOS-related retrieval challenges. She has also drawn on her own experience of infertility treatment in shaping her clinical approach (source: official clinic staff profile).

Dr. Funabiki was an early voice in Japan on the fertility effects of body weight: she developed a diet-and-weight-loss program for infertility patients after helping one patient lose 14 kg in two months and restore ovulation, and presented “The influence of body mass index (BMI) on pregnancy outcome among Japanese infertile women” at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) annual meeting in 2013 (source: official clinic staff profile).

Clinical Expertise

• IVF and infertility treatment within Oak’s individualized protocol system, across the Osaka and Tokyo clinics
• BMI and fertility: medically supervised weight-loss programming for overweight and obese patients with ovulation dysfunction
• Counseling (subspecialty): psychological support integrated into treatment decision-making — her listed subspecialty on the official staff page
• Oocyte and ovarian tissue culture techniques: Edinburgh-trained understanding of immature egg maturation pathways

Why Choose Dr. Miyako Funabiki

Patients choosing Dr. Funabiki get a physician fluent in both halves of the infertility experience. Her psychology foundation is not decorative — counseling is her official subspecialty, and her ASRM-published BMI research turned into a practical in-house weight-loss program for patients whose ovulation problems track with body weight. Her own history of fertility treatment informs a communication style patients consistently describe as unusually empathetic in group materials, and her online consultation work spans both Oak branches.

Professional Affiliations

• Reproductive Medicine Specialist and Instructor, Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine (JSRM)
• Board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG)
• Certified physician under the Maternal Health Law
• Presenter, American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) 2013 annual meeting

Suitable For

• Weight-related ovulatory infertility: a structured, physician-supervised path from BMI assessment through weight loss to conception planning
• Patients needing psychological support: counseling-integrated fertility care from a physician with a formal psychology degree
• PCOS and ovulation disorders: both the stimulation strategy and the lab-side understanding of immature oocyte culture inform her approach