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Kutluk Oktay, MD, Ph.D., FACOG is a board-certified infertility specialist, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University, and world-renowned pioneer in IVF and fertility preservation. At Innovation Fertility Preservation and IVF, Dr. Oktay and his staff offer several treatment options, including:

• Fertility preservation
• IVF-traditional, minimal stimulation or random start
• Cutting edge infertility treatments
• Fertility preservation in children
• Egg freezing both elective and for medical indications
• Fertility preservation in Turner Syndrome
• Treatment and Prevention of Premature Ovarian Failure
• Ovarian tissue freezing
• Ovarian transplantation
• Fertility treatments specific for women with breast cancer
• Fertility treatments specific for BRCA mutation carriers
• In Vitro Maturation
• Testicular Tissue Freezing

Dr. Oktay attracts patients throughout the greater New York City area, with a location in Manhattan, as well as patients from all over the United States and other countries. As a reproductive specialist, Dr. Oktay offers his patients the latest technological advancements in the fields of endocrinology, infertility, and fertility preservation.

Dr. Oktay is known all over the world as a leader in the areas of fertility and reproductive health. He received his medical degree from Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara, Turkey. After completing his OB/GYN residency at the University of Connecticut Health Service Center in Farmington, Connecticut, he went on to earn two fellowships. The first was in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas and the other was in the field of reproductive biology. He earned his second fellowship at Leeds University School of Medicine/Leeds General Infirmary in Leeds, United Kingdom.

Subsequently, he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Gent in Gent, Belgium.

Dr. Oktay has received numerous awards and written many articles on the subject of infertility and fertility preservation. His medical breakthroughs earned him recognition around the globe.

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Rita Gulati, MD, is an accomplished, double board-certified Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility specialist. She sees patients at University Reproductive Associates in Wayne, New Jersey.

Dr. Gulati achieved her Bachelor of Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in a 6-year accelerated BS/MD program, where she distinguished herself by graduating cum laude. Dr. Gulati completed her medical degree at Albany Medical College and her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Emory University School of Medicine. Her training culminated with a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

For more than 20 years, Dr. Gulati has offered compassionate women’s reproductive health care to her patients throughout the New York Metropolitan area. Her areas of expertise include infertility, PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), fertility preservation, third-party reproduction, and recurrent pregnancy loss. “I want my patients to feel welcomed and most importantly, heard,” she explains. “They each have a unique story and a different journey than anyone else. It’s all about them and no one else.”

Dr. Gulati is affiliated with St. Barnabas Medical Center, Morristown Memorial Hospital, and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. She shares her expertise and experience as a lecturer to staff, fellows, residents, and medical students at these institutions. Dr. Gulati is helping to train the next generation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists via objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) for the OB/GYN clerkship clinical and pelvic model training.

Dr. Gulati resides in Bergen County with her husband, where she enjoys gardening, hiking, golf, tennis, and running half-marathons. She has also helped to establish a Women’s Ministry at her parish with a focus on spirituality for girls and women alike. A proud mother of two grown daughters, she holds family above everything else.

Kavitha Persaud, MD, is a double board-certified physician who works at the University Reproductive Associates offices in Wayne, New Jersey, and Goshen, New York, covers Doc of the Day at Hasbrouck Heights, and provides care there as needed.

A New Jersey native, Dr. Persaud received her Bachelor of Science from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, before completing her medical degree at the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. She then completed her REI fellowship at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, following in the footsteps of University Reproductive Associates physicians Peter McGovern, MD, Susan Wolf, MD, Adam Fechner, MD, and Sara Morelli, MD, PhD. It was during Dr. Persaud’s fellowship that she learned about University Reproductive Associates and knew that was where she hoped to practice.

Dr. Persaud’s three-year REI fellowship consisted of 18 months of research followed by another 18 months of clinical experience, predominantly at University Reproductive Associates, where she worked one-on-one with all of the physicians in the group practice to learn about reproductive endocrinology and infertility, assisting with surgeries and observing how they interact with patients.

Dr. Persaud knew she wanted to specialize in obstetrics as she loved the prospect of bringing life into the world. She was drawn to the subspecialty of infertility because it was a way of helping couples become families through the ever-changing technological and medical treatments and procedures.

Anat Chemerinski, MD, is a highly skilled and board-certified reproductive endocrinologist, infertility specialist, and integral part of the team at University Reproductive Associates. Dr. Chemerinski takes great pride in helping those in her care achieve their dreams of parenthood through her work with patients at the office in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.

Dr. Chemerinski completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She earned her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore before completing a residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she eventually became an administrative chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology.

Fellowship training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences in Newark, New Jersey, further enhanced Dr. Chemerinski’s education and experience. She’s earned multiple honors and awards, including the Gold Humanism Honors Society and the William D. Kaplan, MD, Award for Humanism in the Practice of Medicine. Dr. Chemerinski was recently honored with acceptance into the ASRM/NICHD/Duke Clinical Research/Reproductive Scientist Training Program (CREST).

Dr. Chemerinski will continue her research at Rutgers while working with patients at University Reproductive Associates, providing those in her care with the latest advancements in reproductive medicine.

Ndidiamaka Onwubalili, MD, is a reproductive endocrinologist, infertility specialist, and an essential team member at University Reproductive Associates. Dr. Onwubalili works with patients at the offices in Millburn and Denville, New Jersey, and Goshen, New York, and performs surgeries and procedures at Hasbrouck Heights, providing personalized care in a warm and welcoming manner.

Dr. Onwubalili has always embraced the challenges and rewards of higher education. She earned her Bachelor of Science in biology at Georgian Court College in Lakewood, New Jersey, before completing her medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire.

She followed those degrees with a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where she served as administrative chief resident. Dr. Onwubalili then completed fellowship training in reproductive endocrinology at New Jersey Medical School in Newark and is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Dr. Onwubalili makes every effort to get to know those in her care. She understands the emotional challenges that accompany reproductive health challenges and strives to make patients feel secure in the quality of care they can expect from University Reproductive Associates.

Dr. Maureen Moomjy

Maureen Moomjy, MD, FACOG, located in the Upper East Side, near Midtown, New York City, has been providing specialized, comprehensive, and compassionate care in fertility, gynecology, and reproductive medicine for over 20 years. She offers patients fertility services including ovulation induction and timed intrauterine insemination (IUI) and, in collaboration with NYU Fertility Center, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), Egg Freezing, Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD/PGS/PGT) and Donor Egg IVF.

Additionally, she routinely performs gynecologic and reproductive surgery and guides patients through hormonal evaluation and treatment options.

Dr. Moomjy completed her residency in OB-GYN at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and her fellowship in Reproductive Medicine And Infertility at New York Hospital-Cornell Weill. She received her MD cum laude with distinction in research from the State University of New York, Brooklyn, and her Master’s Degree from NYU in Developmental Disabilities.

Dr. Moomjy has been in private practice in New York City since 2000, originally with Madison Women's Health and Fertility, a full-service gynecology, infertility, and reproductive endocrinology practice, and currently with Maureen Moomjy PC, a very private, attentive, and specialized fertility and gynecology practice. Prior to private practice, Dr. Moomjy served as an attending physician with the Cornell IVF Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility where she performed egg retrievals, embryo transfers, gynecologic and reproductive surgery, and expanded the center’s donor egg IVF program.

She maintains operating privileges at New York Presbyterian Cornell-Weill and routinely provides operative hysteroscopy for the treatment of polyps, fibroids, septum, and adhesions; and operative laparoscopy as needed for the treatment of tubal disease. Dr. Moomjy has been committed to providing access to fertility and reproductive services to all women and has supervised fertility care to patients from underserved communities for 20 years.

Dr. Moomjy recognizes that fertility and hormonal abnormalities cause substantial stress for patients who often consult multiple physicians in search of treatment. Yet, her philosophy is that a successful outcome is usually achievable with dedication, perseverance, and medical expertise. 

Being a member of the NYU Fertility Center team has permitted Dr. Moomjy to provide thorough medical preparations for IVF, Donor Egg, and Egg Freezing, while all patients receive embryology services with a Center that has been on the forefront of reproductive technologies for the past 2 decades.