Lauren Roth, M.D.

About

SART-member fertility programs file their cycle outcomes with the society and the CDC, and each report names a physician as the medical director responsible for it. On Shady Grove Fertility’s SART 2023 report — the filing behind the success figures on this clinic’s page — that name is Lauren Roth, M.D. She is the practice’s Medical Director, which puts her in charge of clinical standards across offices she does not personally work in, and accountable for data patients use to choose a clinic.

Roth came to that role through a research-and-teaching path rather than a pure private-practice one. Undergraduate in Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; medical degree at the University of Maryland, Baltimore; then all of her clinical training in Denver — residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado, where she was chief resident and won teaching awards, followed by a three-year fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the same institution and two years on faculty as an assistant professor. During fellowship and faculty years she presented at national meetings and collected three national research awards, including the ASRM and SMRU Prize Paper (2010) and an ASRM Corporate Member Council In-training Travel Award (2013). She joined Shady Grove Fertility in 2015.

Her published subject is the endocrine problem behind a large share of anovulatory infertility: polycystic ovary syndrome, and specifically how weight changes reproductive hormones. That is a practical research agenda. PCOS is why some patients ovulate irregularly, why stimulation protocols have to be watched differently, and why the risk of over-responding to fertility drugs is higher than in other diagnoses. A medical director who publishes on it has read the stimulation-response literature rather than only prescribing from it. She practices in Rockville, and also at Silver Spring and in Pennsylvania at Wexford and Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center.

Clinical Expertise

• Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): ovulation induction, stimulation design and metabolic management, her primary research area
• Weight and reproductive endocrinology: how body weight shifts reproductive hormones, and what that changes about a treatment plan
• IVF cycle management, including protocols for patients at higher risk of ovarian hyperstimulation
• IUI and ovulation induction as first-line treatment in anovulatory infertility
• Clinical standards across a multi-office practice, as Medical Director and as the signing physician on SART reporting
• Academic instruction: two years as University of Colorado faculty, with teaching awards in residency

Why Choose Dr. Lauren Roth

Her name is on the outcome report. Reporting is a condition of SART membership, but the medical director named on the filing is a specific person, and she is the physician running cycles at this address. That is the closest thing to accountability the market offers.

She studies the diagnosis she treats most. Publication on PCOS and on weight’s effect on reproductive hormones, plus national research awards in 2010 and 2013.

Chief resident, three national research awards, two years as faculty. Residency and fellowship at the University of Colorado, then assistant professor there before entering private practice.

Board certified twice over — obstetrics and gynecology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility — with Castle Connolly Top Doctor (2026) and Bethesda Magazine Top Doctor (2026) recognition, and a Daily Record Leading Women Award in 2017.

An unusual undergraduate degree for the job. A Women’s Studies major who went into reproductive medicine, graduated magna cum laude into Phi Beta Kappa, and now signs the practice’s outcome data. Patients dealing with a diagnosis that gets discussed in moral terms tend to notice that combination.

Patient review: “You won’t find a more caring doctor than Dr. Roth. You could hear the disappointment in her voice when treatment didn’t work, and the level of her excitement for us when it finally did.”

Professional Affiliations

Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Medical Director of Shady Grove Fertility, and the medical director named on the practice’s SART 2023 reporting record. Awards: Castle Connolly Top Doctor (2026); Bethesda Magazine Top Doctor (2026); Daily Record Leading Women Award (2017); ASRM and SMRU Prize Paper recipient (2010); ASRM Corporate Member Council In-training Travel Award (2013); Resident Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Colorado (2007, 2010); Bayer HealthCare Best Teaching Resident for the Year, University of Colorado (2008). Undergraduate and medical training at the University of Maryland; clinical training and faculty years at the University of Colorado.

Suitable For

• Patients with PCOS, whether the problem is irregular ovulation, stimulation response, or the metabolic side of the diagnosis
• Patients whose weight has been raised as a barrier to treatment and want the hormone mechanism explained rather than a deadline imposed
• IVF and IUI cycles where hyperstimulation risk needs managing from day one
• Anyone who wants the physician signing the clinic’s SART data to be the physician running their cycle
• Second opinions on a stimulation protocol that went wrong, from the practice’s medical director