Marjan Attaran, MD

About

The medical director named on Cleveland Clinic Fertility Center’s SART 2023 report — the filing that carries this clinic’s 1,562 treatment cycles and its age-band live birth rates — is Dr. Marjan Attaran. She directs the IVF program at the center, which makes her responsible for how stimulation protocols, retrievals, laboratory work and transfers are run, and for the accuracy of the outcome numbers the clinic submits to SART and the CDC. Patients comparing clinics on reported results are, in effect, comparing numbers she signed off on.

The second half of her job is rarer in a fertility practice. Attaran also heads Cleveland Clinic’s pediatric and adolescent gynecology section, so the same physician who manages IVF cycles sees younger patients with menstrual disorders and congenital abnormalities of the reproductive tract. That combination is what makes her the natural referral for adolescents and young women who need fertility assessment before gonadotoxic treatment.

She studied at Kent State University, earned her medical degree at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in 1988, completed obstetrics and gynecology residency at Akron City Hospital in 1992, and finished a reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago in 1995. She holds ABOG certification in both obstetrics and gynecology and in REI, and has been in clinical practice for more than 30 years.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF program oversight: as IVF medical director, sets the standards applied across stimulation, retrieval, fertilization and transfer at the Beachwood center, and reviews the cycle data the clinic reports to SART
• IVF and ICSI cycles: designs fertilization plans for male factor infertility and prior IVF failure, with embryo culture through the blastocyst stage
• Fertility preservation: medical assessment and egg or embryo freezing for patients about to start chemotherapy or radiation
• Adolescent gynecology: evaluation of menstrual disorders, outflow obstruction and Müllerian anomalies in teenagers and young women, handled inside the same practice as her ART work
• Hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgery: operative treatment of uterine cavity and pelvic pathology that affects fertility

Why Choose Dr. Marjan Attaran

She signs the outcome report. Being the verifying medical director on a clinic’s SART submission is a documented role, not a marketing title, and it means the person accountable for cycle quality is the person you can book with.

Two boards, two patient ages. REI subspecialty certification plus a standing role in pediatric and adolescent gynecology is an unusual pairing. A young patient facing cancer treatment, or a teenager with a uterine anomaly, does not have to be handed off to find someone who understands both ends of that care.

More than three decades of clinical practice, trained through fellowship at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s in Chicago, with active membership in the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.

Professional Affiliations

American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Member, American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Member, North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Listed as medical director verifying Cleveland Clinic Fertility Center’s SART 2023 clinic report.

Suitable For

• Patients planning IVF or ICSI at this center, particularly those who want the program’s own medical director setting their protocol
• Patients facing chemotherapy, radiation or ovarian surgery who need egg or embryo freezing arranged quickly
• Adolescents and young women with menstrual, congenital or gynecologic conditions that carry fertility implications
• Patients whose infertility has a surgically correctable cause, such as uterine cavity abnormalities or pelvic disease requiring hysteroscopy or laparoscopy