Leading Specialists in United States
Reproductive specialists in United States
Atoosa Ghofranian, MD
Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist
Atoosa Ghofranian, MD begins seeing patients at HRC Fertility Newport Beach in summer 2026. She trained at Georgetown, Mount Sinai (as Administrative Chief Resident) and the Icahn Mount Sinai / RMA of New York REI program, collecting three national research awards in three years. Her focus: IVF, egg freezing, diminished ovarian reserve and LGBTQ+ and transgender fertility care.
Audrey Melati Marsidi, MD, FACOG
Medical Doctor
Dr. Audrey Marsidi, FACOG, is an Assistant Professor at Emory Reproductive Center specializing in IVF, fertility preservation, premature ovarian insufficiency, transgender fertility, and third-party reproduction. Her research includes a laboratory model for in-vitro spermatogenesis and national IVF outcomes associated with advanced paternal age.
Dr. Audrey Messelt, MD
Medical Doctor
Dr. Audrey Messelt is a Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility specialist at POMA Fertility. She earned her medical degree and completed her OBGYN residency at the University of Minnesota, followed by an REI fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. Her research explores microplastics' impact on fertility and fertility preservation in cancer survivors.
Aida Shanti, MD
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Specialist
Dr. Aida Shanti is a double board-certified reproductive endocrinologist at Aurora Fertility Services in West Allis, Wisconsin, with fellowships in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at both Wayne State University and Emory University, and clinic sessions in English, Arabic and French.
Ellen C. Hayes, MD
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Specialist
Dr. Ellen C. Hayes is a double board-certified reproductive endocrinologist trained at Emory University, where research work earned a John D. Thompson Award in 2004. Listed for Aurora Fertility Services - West Allis, Dr. Hayes was no longer in the Aurora/Advocate physician directory when checked in August 2026.
David Austin Schirmer III, MD
Medical Doctor
Dr. Austin Schirmer is an Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine specializing in infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, PCOS, primary ovarian insufficiency, and functional hypothalamic amenorrhea. He served as a CDC guest researcher on ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and has published on fertility in pediatric cancer survivors.
Aydin Arici, MD
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Aydin Arici has spent his research career on the inflammatory signalling inside the endometrium — chemokines and cytokines — and how endometriosis uses it to block implantation. He is a Yale Medicine Fertility Center reproductive endocrinologist treating IVF patients with endometriosis, fibroids and recurrent loss, and he is running a trial of GnRH antagonist treatment before IVF in women with endometriosis.
Banafsheh (Bana) Kashani, MD, FACOG
Reproductive Endocrinologist & Infertility Specialist
Dr. Banafsheh (Bana) Kashani is a double board-certified reproductive endocrinologist in Aliso Viejo, Orange County, California. She has treated infertility patients since 2014, has practiced in Orange County since 2017, and opened her own solo practice in 2020 so patients get one-on-one care rather than a rotating team. She personally handles consultations, stimulation protocols, monitoring, IUI, egg retrievals, and embryo transfers. She consults in English, Farsi, and Spanish.
Ben Lannon, MD
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Dr. Ben Lannon is the double board-certified reproductive endocrinologist behind Boston IVF's South Portland, Maine practice, with a clinical instructor post at Harvard Medical School and Maine Medical Center. He treats infertility across the board, publishes on prediction models for IVF outcomes, and has worked fertility-access legislation in Maine and New Hampshire.
Benito Villanueva, MD
Fertility Specialist
Benito Villanueva is a San Diego fertility specialist with more than 30 years in infertility care. The practice's documented history credits him with the first successful IVF cycle performed in San Diego, in 1982. He works in English and Spanish and holds licenses in the United States and Mexico.
Beth W. Rackow, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Beth W. Rackow is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and directs its Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Program. She operates laparoscopically and hysteroscopically on fibroids, endometriosis and congenital anomalies, and sits in a national ACOG committee that writes the coding language American gynecology bills in.
Beth Zhou, MD
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Dr. Beth Zhou is a Houston-born reproductive endocrinologist at CCRM Fertility of Houston who trained at the University of Houston and Baylor College of Medicine before fellowship at UC San Diego, where she remains voluntary faculty. She treats PCOS, endometriosis and cancer-related fertility loss, and sees patients in English and Chinese.
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