Dr. Millie Behera

About

Two outside records name the same physician as the doctor answerable for Bloom’s reported cycles: the SART registry entry for the practice lists Millie Behera, MD as medical director, and the CDC clinic record lists Millie A. Behera, MD. Inside our dossier, those are the only two entries for that title that do not come from the clinic’s own website. She is also one of the practice’s three reproductive endocrinologists, and the service page for a first visit says she is the one who reviews a new patient’s medical and personal history at the initial appointment.

Before Arizona, her post was at Duke University: assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and clinical director of the Center for Fibroid Biology and Therapy. The clinic’s biography adds that Duke’s gynecology department ranked fourth in the US at the time, which is the practice’s own framing rather than a ranking our dossier verifies independently. She still holds adjunct faculty positions at Duke and at the University of Arizona, and the clinic says she teaches reproductive medicine and minimally invasive surgery courses and training programs around the country.

Where she took her medical degree is not published in our sources, and neither are her residency or fellowship institutions, though the profile states specialty training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility and board certification in both that subspecialty and obstetrics and gynecology.

Her profile is mounted under both Bloom addresses: the Scottsdale base at 8415 N. Pima Road, Suite 290, where the practice’s CAP-accredited embryology laboratory sits and where retrievals and transfers are done, and the Chandler office at 215 S Dobson Road, Building J, Suite 1, a consultations-and-monitoring site whose day-to-day cycle management the clinic assigns to its nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Clinical Expertise

• In vitro fertilization: cycle management from evaluation through transfer, and the IVF work reported under the practice’s SART registration - 862 cycles in the SART 2023 Final report for a reporting unit that covers both Bloom addresses, so those figures describe the practice, not one clinic door and not one physician.
• Fertility enhancing surgery: the clinic’s service page names laparoscopic surgery, operative hysteroscopy and robotic surgery as her methods, for tubal blockage, fibroids, endometriosis, pelvic adhesions, anatomic variants, ovarian cysts and intra-uterine adhesions.
• Uterine fibroids: her clinical and research history in this area runs from the Duke center she directed, and non-invasive fibroid treatment is one of her listed publication topics.
• Fertility preservation: a publication topic and a listed interest, including the vitrification work she has discussed publicly.
• Tubal reversal: the clinic states she was the first reproductive surgeon in the Phoenix area to perform robotic tubal reversal surgery.
• Endometriosis, PCOS and recurrent miscarriage: the topics the clinic lists from her national television appearances, alongside infertility.
• Not in our record: no procedure volumes, no personal outcome rates, and no publication count.

Why Choose Dr. Behera

The director of record, confirmed outside the clinic. SART and CDC entries naming her matter more than any sentence on a practice website, because they are reporting records: the physician listed there is the one answerable for how the practice’s cycles are documented. For a patient comparing clinics, that is the most checkable line on this page.

Surgery and IVF in the same set of hands. Many fertility patients are passed between a reproductive endocrinologist and a surgeon. Her record covers both board certification in OB/GYN and REI and an operative practice, so a fibroid or adhesion question can be answered by the physician running your cycle.

A research track on the conditions that block pregnancy. Published papers and international presentations on IVF, non-invasive fibroid treatment, fertility preservation therapies and robotic surgery, plus teaching posts at two universities now. Our sources give the topics but no counts.

Named recognition, read as what it is. Phoenix Magazine’s Top Doc for 2014, with the clinic’s own news items reporting further TopDoc recognition since, and appearances as host or guest on national health programs including “Dr. Oz” and “The Doctors”. A magazine award and television work are editorial and promotional visibility - a third-party listing and a media profile, not a clinical grade or a licensure finding. Weigh them below the registry facts.

Professional Affiliations

Board certification in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility is the credential the clinic states for her, and the FACOG and FRCSC designations - fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada - appear in the credential line our research carries. Adjunct faculty at Duke University and the University of Arizona is current as far as the clinic’s biography states. Practice-level credentials belong to Bloom rather than to her: SART membership since 2016, a CAP-accredited embryology laboratory and a CLIA-certified endocrine laboratory. She is also described as part of a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Surgery at Scottsdale Healthcare, a hospital-system affiliation the clinic publishes without further detail.

Suitable For

• Infertility with a surgical question: fibroids, adhesions, tubal blockage, endometriosis or an anatomic variant that may need correcting before or between cycles.
• Fibroid treatment where you still want to carry a pregnancy: the closest fit on this page, given the fibroid center she directed. Her published topic is non-invasive fibroid treatment and her listed operative methods include laparoscopy and robotic surgery, so ask her to place surgery, non-invasive treatment and watchful waiting against each other in your case.
• A tubal reversal question: the procedure the clinic credits her with being the first reproductive surgeon in the Phoenix area to perform robotically.
• Patients who want the director in the room: she is the physician named in the practice’s registry records as responsible for cycle reporting.
• A second opinion on complex history - recurrent miscarriage, PCOS, endometriosis: the conditions her public teaching covers, with the caveat that our dossier gives no outcome data behind them.
• East Valley patients: consultations and monitoring can run in Chandler, but the operative and laboratory appointments are in Scottsdale.

Two things to ask directly, because our record does not answer them: how much of her week is clinical at Bloom, and how your case is split between her and the practice’s other reproductive endocrinologists.