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About
Lorna S. Timmreck co-captained the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s soccer team before she went to medical school, which is not a fertility credential but does explain the temperament patients keep describing in her reviews: showing up on schedule, paying attention to detail, and staying with a problem until it is resolved. She has been at Shady Grove Fertility since 2003 — more than twenty years inside one practice, and one of the longest-serving physicians in the group.
Her training crossed the country and then came back east: undergraduate at Pennsylvania, medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, and fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston IVF — a joint academic-and-private-program curriculum, which means the laboratory side of a cycle is taught in a working IVF lab and not only in a university department. She is the recipient of numerous academic awards from training.
She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and an associate of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Her practice site is Rockville, and only Rockville — no rotation between offices — which means the physician who reads your workup is the physician who monitors your cycle, performs your transfer and answers for the result. Patients notice it: her published reviews turn on communication rather than on outcomes they could not evaluate anyway.
Clinical Expertise
- IVF cycle management from consultation through transfer, including patients who have already had cycles elsewhere
- IUI and ovulation induction for couples where the cheaper treatment is the right one
- Egg freezing and fertility preservation, including preservation ahead of medical treatment
- Infertility diagnosis and workup: ovarian reserve, tubal and uterine assessment, semen analysis interpretation, and explaining what each result changes
- Unexplained infertility and recurrent loss, where the honest answer is a probability rather than a fix
- Continuity across multiple cycles at a single office and with a single physician
Why Choose Dr. Lorna Timmreck
Twenty-plus years at one practice, since 2003. Physician turnover is one of the quieter problems in fertility care: a protocol gets changed mid-treatment because the doctor left. That is not her patients’ experience.
Boston IVF fellowship. Reproductive endocrinology training at Beth Israel Deaconess paired with one of New England’s busiest IVF programs, followed by residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s in Chicago.
Certified in both boards, and inside both societies. ABOG certification in obstetrics and gynecology and in REI, ASRM membership, and associate status in the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility — the subspecialty society, so her name is in the reproductive endocrinology organization as well as the general one.
She is a one-office physician. Rockville only, in a practice whose physicians split time between Maryland, Virginia, D.C. and Pennsylvania.
Reviews that say the same thing. “Dr. Timmreck communicated information very well. She also made sure to offer opportunities for us to ask questions, of which she answered very well,” and separately, “The meetings we had with Dr. Timmreck were all great, we felt very confident.”
Professional Affiliations
Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine; associate of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. The practice’s published profile for her records academic awards through training but does not list named regional top-doctor designations. Training: University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center, and fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston IVF. With Shady Grove Fertility since 2003.
Suitable For
- First-visit patients who want the whole picture explained — diagnosis, options, odds and cost — before consenting to anything
- IVF and IUI cycles at a single office, without switching physicians between branches
- Egg freezing and fertility preservation, on an elective or medical schedule
- Unexplained infertility and repeated loss, where treatment is a sequence of judgment calls rather than one procedure
- Patients transferring in mid-protocol, who need someone willing to read the previous cycles before rewriting them