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Damien Fertility Partners

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Last Update: 09/06/2022

Description

Damien Fertility Partners is a Fertility Center serving patients across Northern and Central New Jersey. They have offices in Shrewsbury and Newark.

The mutlidisciplinary team of professionals includes reproductive endocrinologists, OB/GYN surgeons, specialist nurses, laboratory and administrative staff to help their patients in their search for a baby.

According to their website, third party reproduction options are also available including sperm donation, egg donation and gestational surrogacy.

However, all this information could not be verified by the inviTRA specialists.

If you want to know how to get to the clinic click here.

Fertility treatments

Below, you'll find a table with all fertility treatments offered by Damien Fertility Partnership:

Fertility preservation
In Vitro Fertilization / ICSI
IUI with Donor Sperm
IUI with Partner's Sperm
IVF with Donor Egg & Donor Sperm
IVF with Donor Eggs
IVF with Donor Sperm
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Prolonged embryo cultivation
Reciprocal IVF

Furthermore, this center also provides surrogacy and gender selection since the country and state legislation allows this.

If you're still unsure which fertility treatment is right for you and would like to know more about it, we suggest you read on here: Fertility Treatment Overview.

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This Tool generates you a personalized report with all information necessary about the treatment you will need. Besides, there is a list of clinics in your area which we have chosen based on our selection criteria with their budget plan included. Last but not least, you will find a series of useful tips for your first clinic visit.

Diagnostic tests

To help increase the chances of a successful pregnancy, this center can provide the following diagnostic tests and surgeries in order to determine the cause of infertility and personalize the treatment :

  • Female fertility testing
  • Male fertility testing
  • Female fertility surgeries

However, all this information has not been verified by the inviTRA specialists.

Success rates

This data has been collected by the American CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in the year 2016. Directly comparing pregnancy rates between different clinics can lead to mistakes.

IVF/ICSI

Realized cycles

Number of total cycles performed by the clinic in a year.

The CDC stipulates both the total number of cycles realized per clinic in general and number of cycles performed by the patient's age group: under 35 years, between 35-37 years, between 38-40 years, between 41-42 years and above 43 years.

This is the total number of performed cycles by Damien Fertility Partners in a year.

More information
Cycles with fresh eggs: 194 per year
Cycles with frozen eggs: 102 per year

Pregnancy probability per transfer

Probability that an embryo transfer will lead to a pregnancy, regardless of the number of embryos transferred.

Cycles with fresh eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
73.6%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
45.5%
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
33.3%
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
25.0%*
* Percentage extracted from 8 cases
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
12.5%*
* Percentage extracted from 8 cases

Cycles with frozen eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
68.5%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
86.7%*
* Percentage extracted from 15 cases
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
71.4%
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
66.7%*
* Percentage extracted from 9 cases
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
50.0%*
* Percentage extracted from 2 cases

IVF with egg donation

Realized cycles

Number of total cycles performed by the clinic in a year.

In regards to egg donation cycles, these are the ranges of annual cycles carried out by Damien Fertility Partners.

More information
Cycles with fresh embryos: 3 per year
Cycles with frozen embryos: 23 per year

Pregnancy probability per transfer

Probability that an embryo transfer will lead to a pregnancy, regardless of the number of embryos transferred.

Fresh embryo transfer
66.7%*
* Percentage extracted from 3 cases
Frozen embryo transfer
56.5%

Medical team

Miguel Damien MD
Miguel Damien MD
Reproductive endocrinologist
Medical director
Emily Holden MD
Emily Holden MD
OB/GYN, Reproductive endocrinologist
Nina Seigelstein MD
Nina Seigelstein MD
OB/GYN
Frank Barnes, PhD, HCLD
Frank Barnes, PhD, HCLD
HCLD
Laboratory director

Reviews

The reviews of Damien Fertility Partnership found on the internet are mostly positive with some negative. In the following section we are going to list some of the comments on Google Reviews.

In the positive reviews we can see that natalieee is very thankful to Dr Damien and his team, who diagnosed and treated a long standing fertility issue quickly and they now have a baby boy. These comments are echoed in the opinions of Red and Irene, who add the whole staff are great and also have both had success.

In contrast, in the negative reviews we see Kristen was unhappy with the service provided and feels she didn´t get the correct results and the clinic operates for money and not patient care.

If you have an experience with this clinic and would like to share it with us, whether it was positive or negative, we encourage you to do so in our comment section.

Location: how to get to the clinic?

Damien Fertility Partnership has two locations from which they treat their patients.

Shrewsbury

The office in Shrewsbury is located in the Shrewsbury Surgery Center on Shrewsbury Avenue. There is a parking lot adjacent to the building which is available for their patients. Shrewsbury Avenue is located between NJ 35 and Garden State Parkway.

If using public transport to get to the clinic, the nearest bus stops are on Broad St at Sycamore Ave 1 mile away, or Newman Springs at Clinton Place 0.9 miles away. The nearest train stations are on the North Jersey Coast Line and are Red Bank and Little Silver, 1.5 and 2.2 miles away respectively.

If visiting the clinic from further afield the Monmouth Executive airport is approximately 22 mins drive away and Old Bridge regional airport 34 mins drive away. The nearest international airport is Neward Liberty, which is 35 miles from the center.

Newark

The Newark office is found in suite 210 of the Military Park Building on Park Place. There is limited street parking outside the building but there is a public parking lot opposite. If arriving on Interstate I-280 you take the exit heading south on McCarter Highway and follow the signs for Military Park.

As this center is located in the urban center of Newark there are several optinos for public transport. The nearest train station is Military Park Station on the Newark Light Rail, about 200ft away. Many bus lines stop at Raymond Boulevard at Broad street, about 3 mins walk from the building.

The nearest airport in Newark Liberty International airport which is approximately 10 mins drive.

Last Update: 09/06/2022
2 comments / opinions
    1. Hey there. My wife and I live in Newark and are looking for a good clinic. Anyone got any first hand experience with this place?

      • Hi ToddT

        I hope the analysis we have provided for this clinic is useful for you. We have also analyzed other clinics in the area, so please do have a look at our clinic directory to see what other options are available within your reach.

        Good luck with your AR journey!