Leah Roberts, M.D.

About

Leah Roberts, M.D. holds the senior clinical seat at Boca Fertility — the practice lists her as its Medical Director — and she is one of two reproductive endocrinologists on its physician roster. She is a South Florida native. She did her undergraduate work in biology at the University of Florida Honors Program, graduating cum laude with a minor in English, then took her M.D. at Florida Atlantic University, where she served as vice president of her class. Her obstetrics and gynecology residency was at Temple University in Philadelphia; she stayed on at Temple as an Assistant Professor of OB-GYN, teaching residents and medical students, before leaving for a reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey. At RMANJ she took additional training as an embryologist, which she describes as giving her direct experience inside the clinical laboratory rather than only alongside it.

That laboratory training matters in a program like Boca Fertility’s, which freezes every embryo at the blastocyst stage and moves them in later cycles, and which performs ICSI, laser-assisted hatching and trophectoderm biopsy for PGT in its own CAP-accredited lab. Roberts also holds an academic appointment — Clinical Affiliate Assistant Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine — and has presented research at ASRM, PCRS, CREOG/APGO, AUGS/IUGA and the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, on subjects ranging from ovarian aging to how patients engage with their own care.

Her stated specialty areas are ovarian biology and aging, third-party reproduction, and preimplantation genetics and diagnosis. Outside the clinic she works on the policy side of the same problems: she has lobbied for infertility insurance coverage and for reproductive rights at state and national level with RESOLVE and ACOG. She consults and treats patients in English.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF and ICSI cycle management — stimulation protocol design, monitoring, retrieval and staged frozen transfers, with lab decisions (insemination method, biopsy, vitrification) made in the clinic’s own laboratory
• Ovarian biology and aging — her named research and clinical focus, which is the group of patients where protocol choice and expectation-setting matter most: reduced ovarian reserve, advancing reproductive age, prior failed cycles
• Third-party reproduction — donor egg, donor sperm and gestational carrier cycles, one of her three declared areas of specialization
• Preimplantation genetics — blastocyst-stage biopsy for PGT-A and PGT-M; the clinic runs genetic analysis through a platform it selected for validated false-positive reduction
• PCOS and ovulatory disorders — she is credited by the clinic as a recognized expert in polycystic ovary syndrome and in women’s access to care, and has briefed national and local media on it
• Fertility preservation — egg and embryo freezing ahead of age-related decline or medical treatment

Why Choose Dr. Leah Roberts

She is the clinic’s Medical Director. The practice’s own team page puts that title on her name, which means clinical standards, lab oversight and patient-safety processes run through her.

She trained as an embryologist, not only as a clinician. That is stated in her fellowship background at RMANJ, and it is a meaningful difference in a freeze-all program where almost every decision after retrieval happens in the lab.

She has an academic post and a research record. A clinical affiliate assistant professorship at Florida Atlantic University’s medical school, and presentations at ASRM, PCRS, CREOG/APGO, AUGS/IUGA and the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

She is the clinic’s public voice on women’s health. The practice cites interviews on CBS 13 and ABC 10 — including live on This Week in South Florida — and quotations in the Los Angeles Times, Sun Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel and, internationally, the Irish Star.

She works on coverage policy too. Her advocacy with RESOLVE and ACOG targets infertility insurance coverage and reproductive rights, which bears directly on what patients can actually afford.

Professional Affiliations

Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology. Clinical Affiliate Assistant Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. Affiliated with ACOG and RESOLVE, including lobbying work on infertility coverage. She is one of the two physicians at Boca Fertility, a member clinic of the Fertility Specialists Network, and cycle outcomes are reported to SART and the CDC under Boca Fertility’s own registration unit (ClinicPKID 1949), not under the network.

Suitable For

• Patients over 38 or with low ovarian reserve — ovarian aging is her declared research and clinical focus
• Families built through donation or a gestational carrier — third-party reproduction is one of her three named specialties, and the clinic’s own program publishes her account of becoming a parent through surrogacy as an intended mother
• Patients deciding on PGT-A or PGT-M — preimplantation genetics is a stated focus area, with biopsy done through the clinic’s in-house lab
• PCOS and irregular or absent ovulation — the area the clinic credits her with recognized expertise in, and the one she has discussed in broadcast interviews
• Anyone who wants one physician throughout — Boca Fertility markets itself on being a private practice where “you will be cared for by only one doctor”; Roberts is that doctor for her own patients from workup through transfer
• LGBTQ+ family building — donor sperm IUI, reciprocal IVF and carrier-based paths, which the clinic lists among its service lines