Lili Mickey, CNP

About

Lili Mickey, CNP came into reproductive medicine from family practice, and 21 years of nursing sit behind her current role at Cleveland Clinic Fertility Center. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner, a primary care credential, and took her master’s degree at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in 2005, after an undergraduate degree at John Carroll University.

The family practice background changes what she does in a fertility clinic. A cycle is a short, intense intervention, but the patient in front of the nurse practitioner often has a medical history that bears on it — thyroid disease, diabetes, a body mass index that changes drug dosing, a prior obstetric complication, a partner’s health problem, or the question of what happens to her general health if treatment stops. Those are the conversations a family nurse practitioner is trained to hold, and they happen alongside monitoring rather than being referred elsewhere.

Her daily work at Beachwood is the nursing care wrapped around a cycle: teaching and confirming medication routines, tracking response to stimulation, supporting patients through retrieval and transfer, and following a patient after a negative test or an ongoing pregnancy. She also coordinates with the physicians and the laboratory team, which is where cycle timing gets resolved in practice.

Clinical Expertise

• Cycle nursing care: monitoring appointments, injection schedules and result reviews during stimulated IVF cycles, coordinated with the prescribing reproductive endocrinologist
• Longitudinal reproductive follow-up: continuing care for patients who complete treatment, pause it, or return later, using a primary care rather than episodic approach
• Pre-existing conditions in a fertility patient: the comorbidity and general-health questions that affect dosing, eligibility and timing, managed by the same nurse practitioner running the cycle
• Patient education and support: explanation of each treatment step, what a result means, and where patients can turn for support during treatment
• Multidisciplinary coordination: the working link between patient, physician, embryology laboratory and scheduling, which is what keeps retrieval and transfer dates from slipping

Why Choose Lili Mickey

21 years in nursing, at one of Ohio’s established academic centers. Mickey’s ANCC family nurse practitioner credential and a 2005 master’s from Case Western Reserve’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing sit behind more than two decades of clinical practice, most recently in reproductive endocrinology at Cleveland Clinic Fertility Center.

She is the nurse practitioner for the whole patient, not only the cycle. Patients with a chronic condition, a complicated obstetric history, or health questions that extend past a transfer are the group that benefits from a family practice credential on a fertility team.

She works at Beachwood, the fertility center’s main Ohio site, where the center’s CAP-accredited laboratory handles retrievals and transfers.

Professional Affiliations

Certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Registered nurse and nurse practitioner listed under her National Practitioner Identifier registration, practicing in the Cleveland area. Nurse practitioner in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Cleveland Clinic Fertility Center, Beachwood, Ohio.

Suitable For

• Patients who want cycle nursing care and general health follow-up from the same clinician
• Women with chronic medical conditions whose fertility treatment has to be planned around them
• Patients beginning infertility care who need each step explained and re-explained across a long treatment course
• Patients returning to the center after a pause, or continuing reproductive health care between cycles