Tara Streich-Tilles, MD, MPH

About

Duke Health’s profile for Dr. Tara Streich-Tilles lists two offices, and they are not the same kind of clinic: Duke Fertility Center at Arringdon Park in Morrisville, and Duke Children’s Adolescent Gynecology Creekstone in Durham. Her patient panel includes adults and children. Most physicians on a fertility center’s roster are there for one reason; she is there because a large share of fertility problems begin as gynecologic ones, sometimes in the teenage years, and because a family that starts with a 15-year-old’s abnormal bleeding should not have to re-explain the history at 28.

Her credentials match that split. She is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in obstetrics and gynecology, and separately holds the ABOG focused-practice designation in pediatric and adolescent gynecology — two board credentials in one physician. The subspecialty training came through a pediatric and adolescent gynecology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (2018-2020) after obstetrics and gynecology residency at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina (2014-2018). She earned her MD at Albany Medical College in 2014 and a Master of Public Health at Yale in 2010, the master’s degree first.

She is a gynecologist rather than a reproductive endocrinologist, which places her on the diagnostic layer of a fertility workup: whether a patient needs medication, surgery, or a referral to one of the center’s reproductive endocrinology specialists. Duke Health rates her 4.92 out of 5 across 97 patient ratings, 12 with written comments, and lists her as accepting new patients.

Clinical Expertise

• Pediatric and adolescent gynecology: pubertal development, abnormal uterine bleeding, menstrual disorders and congenital differences of the reproductive tract, evaluated by a physician with a fellowship in the subspecialty
• Gynecologic diagnosis in infertility patients: uterine and ovarian pathology, cervical and menstrual history, and the anatomic questions an IVF program needs answered before it starts stimulating
• Female infertility evaluation: initial assessment and workup coordinated with Duke’s reproductive endocrinology specialists
• Transition care for younger patients: adolescents and young adults whose gynecologic condition carries a fertility consequence, followed from a children’s clinic into adult reproductive care
• Inclusive gynecologic care for LGBTQ+ patients, including patients whose care plan involves gender-affirming treatment and fertility questions at the same time

Why Choose Dr. Tara Streich-Tilles

Two board certifications rather than one. ABOG certification in obstetrics and gynecology plus the focused-practice designation in pediatric and adolescent gynecology is a narrow combination, and it is the reason she can hold an adult fertility panel and a children’s panel at the same time.

Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s. One of the country’s established pediatric hospitals, in the specific subspecialty of adolescent gynecology.

Rated by a large sample. 4.92 out of 5 on 97 Duke Health ratings, 12 with written comments — a bigger rating base than the fertility center’s other published profiles that disclose one — and she is open to new patients.

She spans Duke’s pediatric and reproductive services. Having offices at Duke Children’s and at Duke Fertility Center means the gynecologic history does not get restarted when a patient ages out of children’s care.

Professional Affiliations

Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in obstetrics and gynecology, with the board’s focused-practice designation in pediatric and adolescent gynecology. Duke Health clinician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, practicing at Duke Fertility Center (5601 Arringdon Park Dr, Morrisville) and Duke Children’s Adolescent Gynecology Creekstone (4709 Creekstone Dr, Durham). Training: Albany Medical College MD (2014), Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center residency (2014-2018), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center fellowship (2018-2020), with an MPH from Yale (2010).

Suitable For

• Teenagers and young women with gynecologic symptoms that a general OB/GYN practice handles awkwardly — bleeding disorders, developmental questions, severe menstrual disease
• Patients whose infertility workup keeps stalling on anatomy: fibroids, cavity problems, outflow tract questions, evaluated before a cycle is designed
• Families moving a patient from children’s care into adult reproductive medicine: one physician holds both charts
• LGBTQ+ patients looking for gynecologic care that does not require explaining their history from the beginning
• Note on scope: she is a gynecologist. Patients who need ovarian stimulation, retrieval and embryo transfer are managed by Duke’s reproductive endocrinology specialists at the same clinic, and the center’s physicians share one record system