Jenna M. Turocy

About

A paper on human genome editing in the journal Cell, and a 2021 award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine for a scientific paper, belong to a doctor whose clinic days are spent on the other end of that work: pregnancies that stop in the first weeks. Dr. Jenna M. Turocy is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University Fertility Center, the fertility service of Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian, on the penthouse floor at 5 Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Recurrent and early pregnancy loss is the named focus of her practice, with IVF and general reproductive endocrinology around it.

Her training took her from Georgetown University School of Medicine (MD, 2015) to an obstetrics and gynecology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with Harvard Medical School (2019), then back to New York for a Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility fellowship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, which she finished in 2022. She stayed as faculty. For a patient, the practical meaning is that the specialist who trained in this system now works inside it — test results, lab access and hospital services all sit under the same roof.

Loss evaluation is mostly a process of elimination, and much of it is done here rather than referred out: hormone and ovarian reserve testing, imaging of the uterus and fallopian tubes, and genetic analysis when chromosomes are part of the question, which the center handles through its in-house Pre-Pregnancy Genetics team. When a pregnancy does follow treatment, the center checks it with blood work about ten days after transfer and keeps it under observation for roughly eight to ten weeks before handing care to an obstetric practice — the exact stretch of the calendar that matters most to someone who has lost before.

Clinical Expertise

• Early and recurrent pregnancy loss: Evaluation and management as a stated clinical focus, not an occasional case type — the area her practice is organized around
• In Vitro Fertilization: Full cycle care at a center that runs stimulation, retrieval, fertilization, blastocyst culture and transfer in one program, with time-lapse embryo monitoring and an in-house genetics workstation
• Reproductive endocrinology: Hormonal causes of infertility and pregnancy failure, worked up with the testing and lab services available inside Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Female infertility: Assessment of tubal, uterine and ovarian factors using the center’s diagnostic menu — hormone panels, pelvic ultrasound, hysterosalpingogram, and hysteroscopy or laparoscopy where indicated
• Translational research background: A publication in Cell on human genome editing, and an ASRM 2021 Scientific Award Paper Prize

Why Choose Dr. Jenna Turocy

A named focus on loss. Plenty of reproductive endocrinologists treat miscarriage patients. Few list early and recurrent pregnancy loss as the organizing subject of their practice, which is what her profile does.

Research credentials in the primary literature. The Cell genome-editing paper and an ASRM 2021 Scientific Award Paper Prize point to a physician comfortable with primary literature on embryo and genetic biology — which is the literature a loss workup draws on.

She trained where she practices. A Columbia fellowship followed by a Columbia faculty post means her patients move through a system she knows from the inside: whose lab runs genetic testing, when results come back, which obstetric colleagues receive a pregnancy at ten weeks.

Academic backing for hard cases. The center sits inside an Ivy League academic medical center and works across departments — gynecologic oncology, urology, maternal-fetal medicine and genetics — which matters when a loss turns out to have a medical or chromosomal cause rather than a uterine one.

Professional Affiliations

American Society for Reproductive Medicine, whose 2021 scientific program awarded her a Scientific Award Paper Prize. Her publication record includes work on human genome editing in Cell. She holds an Assistant Professorship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University and practices within Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Suitable For

• Patients who have lost pregnancies more than once: The core of her clinic; repeated early loss is the reason to seek a subspecialist rather than a general OB-GYN
• Anyone considering IVF after a miscarriage: She covers both halves — the evaluation and the cycle — inside one practice
• Unexplained infertility with a suspected endocrine driver: Hormonal workups and treatment decisions stay in the same hands from testing through transfer
• Patients who want a diagnosis before another medicated cycle: Loss evaluation is a process of elimination, and her practice is organized around that process rather than around repeating a protocol