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About
Two papers explain Dr. Meaghan Delaney’s niche. The first, in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, showed that progesterone drives sFRP4 expression in uterine leiomyomas — molecular evidence behind the clinical fact that fibroids are a hormone-sensitive problem for fertility patients. The second surveyed women presenting for fertility care in two US metropolitan centers and documented how unevenly basic fertility knowledge is distributed between low- and high-resource patients. One paper is about tissue biology; the other is about what people believe about their own reproductive clocks. Delaney works both ends of that gap in clinic.
She is double board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, practicing at Boston IVF’s Springfield center. Her training ran from a biology degree at Johns Hopkins through Boston University School of Medicine, OB/GYN residency at UMass Chan Medical School, and REI fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She then stayed on UMass Chan’s Worcester faculty as an assistant professor in obstetrics and gynecology before joining Boston IVF.
The result for patients is an academic’s habits in a community clinic: a physician who publishes on fibroid molecular biology and on fertility-information disparity, and who counseled OB/GYN residents as faculty before taking the Springfield practice.
Clinical Expertise
- Uterine Fibroids and IVF: Her JCEM research on progesterone-regulated pathways in leiomyomas informs how she times transfer and weighs myomectomy or medical management
- IVF and ICSI: Full-cycle care with a background in resident teaching at UMass Chan
- Female Infertility: Diagnostic workups attentive to the knowledge gaps her disparity study measured
- Fertility Preservation: Egg and embryo banking counseling
- Patient Education: A published researcher on what patients do and don’t understand about fertility — the skill that makes counseling land
Why Choose Dr. Meaghan Delaney
She studies the disease you may have. Fibroid biology is not a side interest; her first-author-track publication on progesterone signaling in leiomyomas sits in a top endocrinology journal.
She studies the patients you’re sitting among. The two-city fertility knowledge disparity work means she actively calibrates counseling to what each patient actually knows.
Professor before practitioner. An assistant professorship at UMass Chan means trainees were taught by her; protocols at Springfield carry that review culture.
Hopkins-to-Baylor pipeline. Rigorous, fully American academic training on both coasts, ending in a clinic where she knows the referral base.
Professional Affiliations
Double board-certified (OB/GYN; REI). Former Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UMass Chan Medical School (Worcester). Her publication list runs from Fertility Research and Practice and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism back to early laboratory research in cancer biology, and she presents at national meetings.
Suitable For
- Fibroid patients told IVF is complicated by their uterus: A physician with bench-level knowledge of the condition
- Springfield-area patients: Boston IVF’s western Massachusetts center, no commute to Boston
- Patients who felt talked past elsewhere: Her research specialty is exactly that communication gap
- Academic-medicine-minded families choosing a former faculty physician