Kenan R. Omurtag, MD

About

When you look up this center’s 2023 SART clinic summary report, the medical director named at the top of it is Kenan R. Omurtag, MD, and the same name appears on the line that verifies the year’s data. That is a specific kind of accountability: the 1,025 cycles reported for 2023, the 95.2% retrieval start report rate, and the age-band live birth rates of 54.1% under 35 through 10.2% over 40 all passed his signature before the registry published them.

He co-directs the center’s Integrated Care & Fertility Preservation Program, which is where the hardest preservation cases land: adolescents and prepubertal children whose cancer treatment threatens future fertility and who cannot wait the roughly two weeks that egg or embryo freezing normally takes. That program joins the fertility center with pediatric and adolescent gynecology at Washington University and hematology/oncology teams at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and covers ovarian and testicular tissue freezing.

The center lists him as a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist. Its physician profile for him is one of the shortest on the site — a single line about helping patients build families plus his own statement on what he finds rewarding about the work — so his schools, training years and research interests are not documented in our sources, and this page does not guess at them.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF cycle oversight: as the physician named on the center’s registry report, he carries responsibility for the cycle data this page displays.
• Reproductive endocrinology and infertility: the clinical role the center assigns him, covering infertility diagnosis and assisted reproduction.
• Fertility preservation in children and adolescents: ovarian and testicular tissue cryopreservation through the program he co-directs, for patients whose diagnosis leaves no room for standard egg or embryo freezing.
• Coordination across services: the preservation program runs jointly with pediatric gynecology and oncology, which means the fertility conversation happens alongside treatment planning rather than after it.

Why Choose Dr. Omurtag

The data reporter is also your doctor. Choosing the physician whose name verifies the clinic’s own published outcomes puts you with the person most motivated to keep those numbers honest and to explain what a band of 66 cycle starts means for your own odds.

Rare preservation scope. Ovarian and testicular tissue freezing is not offered by most US fertility clinics; a family facing a pediatric cancer diagnosis has to find it fast, and he co-directs the local program that does it.

He describes the work as relationship, not transaction. His own statement is that accompanying a couple or individual through a sometimes short and sometimes long journey creates a bond unlike any other in medicine, and that his team provides an environment for patients that is unmatched.

Professional Affiliations

Medical Director of record for the Washington University Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Center on the SART 2023 clinic summary report. Co-director, Integrated Care & Fertility Preservation Program, spanning the Fertility & Reproductive Medicine Center, Washington University’s pediatric and adolescent gynecology division, and hematology/oncology at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Our sources list no society memberships or committee posts for him.

Suitable For

• IVF patients comparing clinics on data, who want to ask the physician who certified the report how it applies to their age band and diagnosis
• Families of a child or adolescent facing gonadotoxic treatment, where the preservation window is too short for egg or embryo freezing
• Patients who want the registry data explained rather than quoted, and who will ask how a band resting on 66 or 53 cycle starts applies to their own age and diagnosis
• Cancer survivors planning pregnancy after treatment, where preservation timing and the risk window for delaying pregnancy need to be worked out with the oncology team