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About
Iris Insogna came to fertility medicine through bioethics. She earned her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania together with a master’s in bioethics, and she now works in exactly the corner of IVF where those questions bite hardest: donor eggs, donor sperm, gestational carriers, and the legal and emotional architecture of LGBTQIA+ family building. A formal ethics background is not decoration in that part of the field — consent, parental rights and the status of embryos are the day-to-day problems.
She completed both residency and her Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility fellowship in the Harvard program shared by Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General hospitals, and she is now an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia. She was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society in training and received multiple teaching awards at Harvard.
Clinical Expertise
- LGBTQIA+ Family Building: Reciprocal IVF, donor-sperm IUI and IVF, and tailored paths for same-sex couples and transgender patients
- Third-Party Reproduction: Donor eggs, donor sperm and gestational carriers, with attention to the legal and counseling framework around each
- Donor Egg Programs: Matching, screening coordination and cycle management within Columbia’s program
- IVF and Egg Freezing: Standard ART care for patients who also need preservation or donor-based paths
- Ethics of Assisted Reproduction: Informed-consent and disposition questions grounded in a dedicated bioethics degree
Why Choose Dr. Insogna
A bioethics degree she actually uses. Third-party reproduction and LGBTQIA+ family building turn on consent, parental rights and embryo disposition. She trained formally in that territory before practicing in it.
Harvard line, Columbia bench. Both her residency and fellowship came through the Brigham and Women’s / Massachusetts General Harvard program, now applied at an Ivy League academic center.
Recognized for bedside teaching. Alpha Omega Alpha, Gold Humanism Honor Society and repeated Harvard teaching awards point to a physician patients describe as an unusually clear explainer.
Professional Affiliations
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society; Gold Humanism Honor Society. Faculty, Columbia University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; trained in the Harvard Brigham and Women’s / Massachusetts General reproductive endocrinology program.
Suitable For
- LGBTQIA+ patients: A physician whose stated focus is building families for queer patients
- Donor egg or surrogacy families: Third-party reproduction handled with its legal and ethical pieces in view
- Anyone wrestling with consent questions: A bioethicist-clinician you can ask hard questions of
- IVF and egg freezing: Standard ART care alongside donor-based paths