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About
The medical director listed on RMA New Jersey’s federal ART registration is Michael R. Drews. That is a paperwork detail with substance behind it: the CDC record for the network that produced the 65.1% live birth figure for patients under 35 names him as the physician responsible for the program, and he was one of the doctors who built the practice from the start in the late 1990s.
He found the specialty in his third year of medical school and has not moved since. Cornell University Medical College gave him the degree, North Shore Hospital in Manhasset the obstetrics and gynecology residency, and Mount Sinai Medical School the reproductive endocrinology fellowship. He is board-certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and teaches as Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Patients see him in two offices, Basking Ridge and West Orange.
Twenty-five years in one field is long enough to watch standard practice be disproved, and he says that out loud. “For us, the entire field changes every five to ten years,” he has said. “We want to be not just one, but two steps ahead of the game. We never, ever want to use yesterday’s technology, so we dedicate ourselves to developing tomorrow’s.” It is a useful thing for a patient to hear from someone whose own protocols have had to survive that turnover.
Clinical Expertise
- Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility: diagnosing and treating the hormonal and structural causes of infertility as a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist
- IVF across its whole modern history: he has run cycles from when IVF was a last resort to when it is routine care, which means he has personally cycled through the stimulation protocols, culture conditions and transfer strategies that replaced each other in that window
- Complex and previously failed cases: cases where diagnosis differs between clinics, or where multiple cycles did not work, get re-examined rather than repeated — a judgment call that depends on length of experience
- Reproductive surgery in the same practice: the Basking Ridge campus has the lab, the surgical center and the surgeons together, so hysteroscopic and laparoscopic findings can be dealt with without a referral elsewhere
- Clinical teaching: a faculty appointment in the Rutgers division keeps his practice answerable to current literature and guideline updates
Why Choose Dr. Michael Drews
He co-founded the practice. RMA New Jersey is now 11 offices and two IVF laboratories statewide, and he was there at the beginning. A founding partner’s clinical habits are not inherited from whoever held the room before; they were set by the person who wrote the standards, which is a different relationship to the lab protocols your embryos will be cultured under.
More than 25 years, entirely in reproductive medicine. The clinic records his career at over 25 years. Much of what was standard in 1999 has been overturned since, so a long tenure here means having watched changes work and fail, not simply accumulating years.
Named on the federal record, and independently recognized. Beyond being the medical director on the network’s CDC registration, he was selected a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for 2026, listed in New Jersey Monthly’s Top Docs from 2007 through 2012, and given the NJBIZ ICON Honors Award in 2025.
Awards from both research and patient sides. He received the Purdue Frederick Award from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a Member Prize Paper Award from the American Fertility Society (now ASRM) — research recognition. The 2002 Zenith Award from RESOLVE of New Jersey and the 2004 American Fertility Association Family Building Award came from patient advocacy organizations, which is a different verdict on the same physician.
He argues against doing it the way it has always been done. A patient coming off unsuccessful cycles elsewhere should care whether the next clinic intends to repeat them. His stated position is that the team commits itself to developing tomorrow’s technology rather than using yesterday’s.
Professional Affiliations
Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the successor to the American Fertility Society where he won a prize paper award. He holds a faculty appointment in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and has published and spoken on reproductive medicine throughout that appointment.
Suitable For
- Repeated failures or a complicated medical history: when several cycles have not worked, the value is in someone who can tell you which step was wrong rather than which step to repeat
- Long-term management by a founding partner: for patients who want the same senior physician from workup through the outcome, including eligibility calls on programs such as CareShare
- Split care between Basking Ridge and West Orange: he practices at both, so a move between offices for work or family does not force a change of doctor
- Patients who interrogate protocols: he invites the question of whether an approach is current, which suits people who arrive with a printout of another clinic’s protocol
- Multi-generation family building: he has written publicly about a case in which IVF made two generations of one family possible, work that involves timelines and legal questions beyond a single cycle