Ingrid Rodi, MD

About

Few physicians in this market have run the regional reproductive society itself. Dr. Ingrid Rodi’s biography describes a term as president of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society after more than a decade on its board, alongside a volunteer clinical professorship in UCLA’s obstetrics and gynecology department at the David Geffen School of Medicine. That combination — society leadership plus unpaid teaching in an academic department while practicing privately — usually means protocols get argued about rather than inherited.

She trained entirely in the Los Angeles public-hospital system that handles some of the county’s most complicated obstetric cases: undergraduate and medical degrees at Brown University, then residency and reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Her biography lists board certification in both OB-GYN and REI, fellowship in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and surgical certification for laparoscopic and hysteroscopic procedures — relevant because a diagnostic laparoscopy or a hysteroscopic cavity correction can be the difference between a cycle that implants and one that does not.

Her working life split between two very different settings: years in Santa Monica private practice, five years as full-time UCLA clinical faculty, and director of the reproductive medicine center at Century City Hospital, before joining PFCLA. She has won an award chosen by OB-GYN chief residents at UCLA for teaching, a distinguished service award from the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, and delivered a named guest lecture at Brown; her biography also lists long-running inclusion in physician-ranking directories and volunteer work at the Santa Monica-UCLA rape treatment center and the Venice Family Clinic. She consults in German and Portuguese as well as English and Spanish.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF and complex cycle management: protocol selection across normal, high, and low responders, with decisions about when to freeze rather than transfer
• Reproductive surgery: laparoscopic and hysteroscopic evaluation and treatment — adhesions, polyps, submucous fibroids, endometriosis — performed by the physician who will run the cycle
• Female infertility differential: tubal disease, ovulatory disorders, endometriosis, uterine factors, and unexplained infertility worked through in sequence rather than all at once
• Advanced reproductive age: counseling on realistic per-cycle yield and odds, and on when donor eggs become the rational option
• Recurrent pregnancy loss: structured evaluation of genetic, anatomic, endocrine, and thrombophilic contributors
• Fertility preservation: egg and embryo freezing for elective and medical indications
• Resident and fellow education: ongoing teaching role in a university department, with the literature review that comes with it

Why Choose Dr. Ingrid Rodi

Surgery and IVF in one set of hands. Many patients need a cavity problem fixed before a transfer is worth attempting; a physician with laparoscopic and hysteroscopic certification can decide that herself instead of referring out and losing a cycle to the calendar.

Three decades of the same market. She has practiced infertility in Los Angeles since the early 1990s, in private practice, in hospital-based reproductive medicine, and in an academic faculty role — which is a longer local track record than most IVF directories offer.

Society leadership, not just membership. A past presidency of the regional reproductive society, with over a decade on its board, places her inside the professional conversation that sets regional practice norms.

Teaching without being paid for it. A volunteer clinical professorship and a teaching award chosen by chief residents are the kind of roles physicians take on because they read the literature anyway.

Four languages. German and Portuguese coverage is rare in California fertility care, where Spanish and English are assumed to be the whole conversation.

Professional Affiliations

Board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Her biography lists membership in the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, the Society for Reproductive Surgery, and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, plus an ACGEE credential in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery. Past president and long-serving board member, Pacific Coast Reproductive Society; volunteer clinical professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; named guest lecturer at Brown University; regional and national top-physician directory listings since the 1990s.

Suitable For

• Cases that have resisted a straightforward workup: the long differential is her stated area
• Patients who may need surgery before IVF: adhesions, polyps, submucous fibroids, endometriosis
• Older reproductive age: protocol and timing decisions made with realistic numbers
• Recurrent loss: staged evaluation instead of another empirical transfer
• Fertility preservation: elective egg freezing and medical indications
• German- or Portuguese-speaking patients: consultation in language