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About
Stephanie Smeltzer arrived at ACRM in the summer of 2020 with her Duke University REI fellowship barely finished, and she split her practice three ways from the start: the medical management of infertility, its surgical management, and IVF itself. She chose Atlanta deliberately — her account of the move emphasizes working with couples of many diverse backgrounds in a vibrant city. Before Georgia she had run the standard southeastern-and-south-central pipeline: Samford University, the University of Alabama’s Birmingham medical school, obstetrics and gynecology residency at Baylor College of Medicine, fellowship at Duke.
That three-way split is the most useful thing to know about her schedule. Many reproductive endocrinologists stop at prescribing; Smeltzer’s listed interests keep the monitoring-and-medication phase, the operative phase, and the lab-and-transfer phase in the same hands.
Recognition arrived early: Castle Connolly placed her on its Rising Star list for 2022 through 2024 — the second year of practice onward — and moved her to its Top Doctor list for 2025. Atlanta Magazine named her a Top Doctor for 2024.
Clinical Expertise
- Medical management of infertility: ovulation induction, cycle monitoring and medication strategy before and outside of IVF
- Surgical management: operative evaluation and treatment of fertility-limiting conditions, listed among her core interests
- IVF: stimulation, retrieval and transfer within ACRM’s CCRM-operated lab system
- PCOS: the condition patients most often arrive with and the one her medical-management focus serves
- Unexplained infertility: a stated focus — diagnosis by exclusion handled with stepwise treatment rather than a single leap
- Recurrent pregnancy loss: workup and next-attempt planning
Why Choose Dr. Smeltzer
Medication, scalpel and lab in one physician. Few ACRM specialists list medical and surgical management and IVF together as their three interests; for patients whose plan may move between all three, that continuity matters.
Twice recognized inside five years. The Rising Star-to-Top Doctor progression at Castle Connolly (2022-2024, then 2025) is the firm’s standard signal that a newer specialist has been validated by peers beyond the training years.
Professional Affiliations
Our file for Dr. Smeltzer documents three recognitions: Castle Connolly Rising Star 2022-2024, Castle Connolly Top Doctor 2025, and Atlanta Magazine Top Doctor 2024. It records no society memberships and no board certification, so anything of that kind listed elsewhere should be confirmed with the practice directly.
Suitable For
- PCOS patients starting with medication, not IVF: her medical-management focus fits the stepwise path
- Couples told everything looks normal: unexplained infertility is a named interest, worked up rather than waved through
- Patients who may need surgery between cycles: one physician across the operative and assisted-reproduction phases
- Women after repeated losses: structured evaluation as part of a three-modality practice