Dr. Mousa Shamonki

About

In 2006, UCLA placed its in vitro fertilization and assisted reproduction program under a physician trained at Cornell and at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey, naming him Director of In-Vitro Fertilization and Assisted Reproduction. His FSAC profile credits Mousa Shamonki with turning that program into a center of excellence — a role that pairs patient care with oversight of the laboratory and the cycle protocols running through it. He is now one of four physicians at FSAC: Dr. Richard Buyalos’s retirement letter names him, along with Drs. Hubert, Mehr and Dhesi, as the partners continuing at the practice after Buyalos’s final day of patients in May 2026.

His training path is unusually procedural for a reproductive endocrinologist. He took his medical degree and obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Vermont, then completed his REI fellowship at Cornell — a program his FSAC profile describes as the premier fellowship in the country. He followed it with a year at RMA New Jersey performing thousands of ultrasounds and procedures, which his profile presents as the source of an experience level rivaling any clinician in the country. Monitoring scans and egg retrieval are the hands-on core of an IVF cycle, and that year was spent doing exactly those, at volume.

Reproductive medicine also runs in the family. “I had the great fortune of growing up learning about reproductive medicine through the eyes of my father, Dr. Issa Shamonki, who was one of the pioneers in the field,” he has said. “I hope to continue his legacy by providing care of the highest quality, with great compassion and consideration.” He has published numerous papers and holds the Carbee Award for excellence in OB/GYN, the Patients’ Choice Award, America’s Top Doctors and Castle Connolly Top Doctor recognition for 2025 and 2026. He is board-certified in both reproductive endocrinology and infertility and obstetrics and gynecology.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF cycle design: protocols built around ovarian response history, with the lab-clinician coordination that came from directing an academic IVF program
• ICSI and male factor: sperm injection decisions made with the practice’s on-site andrology and embryology laboratories at Thousand Oaks
• High-volume procedural work: monitoring ultrasound and egg retrieval, the skills his RMA New Jersey year measured in thousands of cases
• Complex and repeated-failure cases: stimulation that produced too few eggs, fertilization that failed, or transfers that did not implant — the diagnostic territory an IVF program director sits in
• Fertility preservation: egg and embryo freezing, including the practice’s fast-tracked consultations for patients facing chemotherapy or radiation
• Program-level quality control: FSAC describes its physicians, embryologists, physician assistants and nurses reviewing each IVF cycle together; that habit of joint case review is the day-to-day version of his UCLA role

Why Choose Dr. Mousa Shamonki

He has run the program, not just practiced inside one. His profile credits him with developing UCLA’s IVF and assisted reproduction service into a center of excellence, so his judgments about lab workflow, fertilization strategy and transfer policy were made from the director’s chair as well as the exam room.

Procedure volume as training. A year at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey logging thousands of ultrasounds and procedures is a different apprenticeship than a standard fellowship year, and monitoring scans and retrievals are the two things an IVF patient experiences directly.

Named in several award systems. Castle Connolly Top Doctor for 2025 and 2026, America’s Top Doctors, the Patients’ Choice Award and the Carbee Award for excellence in OB/GYN all appear on his FSAC profile.

A second opinion grounded in comparison. Having led an academic program before joining a private three-office practice, he is one of the FSAC physicians best placed to tell a patient whether a previous clinic’s plan was reasonable or simply habitual.

Note on what his profile does not claim. Shamonki is described as a proceduralist and program director. No surgical subspecialty fellowship is documented for him at FSAC; laparoscopy and hysteroscopy at this practice sit with Dr. Holly Mehr.

Professional Affiliations

Board-certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility and in obstetrics and gynecology, with FACOG in the credential line on his FSAC page. No society memberships are named in his published profile, so none are claimed here. Recognition documented by the practice: Carbee Award for excellence in OB/GYN, Patients’ Choice Award, America’s Top Doctors Award, and Castle Connolly Top Doctor for 2025 and 2026. Dr. Richard Buyalos’s 2026 retirement letter names him as one of the four physicians continuing at the practice; the SART 2023 clinic report lists Dr. Gary Hubert as the practice’s medical director.

Suitable For

• Patients who have failed IVF elsewhere: a background well suited to working out whether the protocol or the underlying diagnosis was the problem
• Poor or unpredictable responders: stimulation design informed by high-volume monitoring and retrieval experience
• ICSI and male-factor cycles: with the practice’s IVF and andrology laboratories on site at Thousand Oaks, where his own profile says the embryology and andrology work is done
• Egg or embryo freezing with a deadline: cancer treatment, or family timing, where the practice offers same-day consultations and a fast-tracked start
• Anyone wanting a doctor who has managed a lab as well as patients: an IVF program director’s view of where cycles succeed and where they break down