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About
Monica Chung is the physician behind this practice’s newest location: the Baylor Medical Pavilion office at 3600 Gaston Avenue in east Dallas, where she is the doctor patients book when they call that number. A new office needs a physician who can carry a panel alone, and her training fits that job — she completed her reproductive endocrinology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in 2022 with a concurrent master’s degree in clinical research, the combination that lets her read a study on obstetric risk in IVF pregnancies rather than only cite it.
Her research goes in two directions that both matter to patients rather than only to journals. One is endometriosis, including how surgical management and assisted reproduction are sequenced. The other is what happens after a positive pregnancy test: obstetric outcomes in IVF-conceived pregnancies, a field where the honest answers are still being written. That work has been awarded at national meetings, and the Southwestern Obstetric and Gynecologic Society gave her its scientific research award for the best study presentation in Texas. She also holds the Professor John J. Trentin academic scholarship, and her undergraduate degree is from Baylor University, with an MD from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and ob/gyn residency at UT Southwestern.
She is known among patients for a consultation style that slows the visit down. Shared decision-making is a phrase used loosely in medicine; in her case the practice’s own materials describe communication and informed choice as the center of how she sees people, which is worth knowing if you want your questions answered rather than reassured away.
Clinical Expertise
- Endometriosis-related infertility: whether to operate, whether to stimulate, and in what order, argued from stage, age and ovarian reserve rather than from a single factor
- Obstetric care after IVF: monitoring and counseling for patients who conceive through ART and then face the higher baseline risks that come with it
- IVF cycle management: stimulation, monitoring, retrieval and transfer, with research-grade attention to outcome data
- Fertility preservation: egg and embryo freezing before endometriosis surgery, chemotherapy or other gonadotoxic treatment
- Reproductive surgery: hysteroscopic and laparoscopic assessment and treatment of the cavity and pelvis
- Female infertility evaluation: ovulatory, tubal, uterine and unexplained causes worked through in a defined order
Why Choose Dr. Monica Chung
She runs the Baylor office. Patients in east Dallas along the Gaston Avenue and LBJ corridor get a reproductive endocrinologist on site instead of a drive to Glen Lakes or Medical City.
A clinical research master’s, not just a fellowship. Her two research programs — endometriosis and obstetric outcomes after IVF — are the questions she will use to advise you about your own pregnancy risk, and both have won awards at national meetings, including a best-presentation award in Texas.
Training completed inside Texas systems: UT Southwestern residency, Baylor College of Medicine fellowship and MSCI, Texas Tech medical degree, Baylor University undergraduate, and a named academic scholarship along the way.
Professional Affiliations
Board-certified reproductive endocrinologist, subspecialty-trained in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, practicing in North Texas. Fellowships and degrees: Baylor College of Medicine (REI fellowship and master’s in clinical research, 2022), UT Southwestern Medical Center (obstetrics and gynecology residency, 2019), Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (MD), Baylor University (BS). Professor John J. Trentin academic scholarship. Research presentations recognized at national meetings and by the Southwestern Obstetric and Gynecologic Society.
Suitable For
- Patients with endometriosis, especially those deciding between excision surgery and going straight to IVF
- Women over 35 planning a first cycle, who want the obstetric risk conversation before the transfer rather than after
- Fertility preservation before surgery or cancer treatment, including endometriosis surgery that may reduce reserve
- Patients who want a slower, question-driven consultation, in a newer office with shorter wait times