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GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center

Analyzed by inviTRA Staff
Last Update: 05/06/2020

Description

GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center is a private fertility clinic located in Washington DC that opened its doors in 1987. Also, this center has locations in Maryland and Virginia.

This clinic offers patient care to both domestic and international patients. Therefore, the team that constitutes this center is made up of professionals from different fields.

Apart from this, GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center has extensive facilities with its own laboratory.

According to the information published on its website, this center is certified by the College of American Pathologists. However, all this information has not been verified by the inviTRA-specialists.

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

Available treatments

The following fertility treatments are available at the center:

Fertility preservation
Frozen Embryo Transfer
In Vitro Fertilization / ICSI
IUI with Donor Sperm
IUI with Partner's Sperm
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

The treatment costs may vary significantly depending on the tests or techniques included or not, such as the seminogram, medication, fertility testing, medical visits, prolonged culture or embryo vitrification.

This Tool helps you to find out the exact costs of the different fertility clinics (what's included and what's not) and provides you with lots of useful tips for your first appointment.

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.

Diagnostic treatments

At the GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center, it is also possible to perform the following diagnostic tests on men and women to find out the reason for infertility and establish the most appropriate treatment:

  • Male Fertility Testing.
  • Female Fertility Testing.
  • Hormonal Studies.
  • Hysterosalpingogram.
  • Ultrasound.
  • Semen analysis.
  • Recurrent pregnancy loss study.
  • Implantation failure analysis.

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 GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center in a year.

More information
Total Cycles with Fresh Eggs: 111 per year
Total Cycles with Frozen Eggs: 185 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
18.8%*
* Percentage extracted from 16 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
30%*
* Percentage extracted from 10 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
11.8%*
* Percentage extracted from 17 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
20%*
* Percentage extracted from 10 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
0%*
* Percentage extracted from 3 cases only

Cycles with Frozen Eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
40.9%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
51%
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
47.6%
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
41.2%*
* Percentage extracted from 17 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
57.1%*
* Percentage extracted from 7 cases only

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 GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center.

More information
Total Cycles with Fresh Embryos: 0 per year
Total Cycles with Frozen Embryos: 15 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
No data available
Frozen Embryo Transfer
20%*
* Percentage extracted from 10 cases only

Medical team

Dr. David Frankfurter, MD
Dr. David Frankfurter, MD
Director
Gynecologist and Obstetrician
Dr. Kathryn Humm, MD
Dr. Kathryn Humm, MD
Gynecologist and Obstetrician
Dr. Sasmira Lalwani, MD
Dr. Sasmira Lalwani, MD
Gynecologist and Obstetrician

Reviews

Both positive and negative experiences of the GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center can be read on the Internet. However, we cannot claim that any of them refer to the specialty of assisted reproduction since there are different medical specialties in this center.

If you would like to tell us about your experience at GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center, whether positive or negative, we encourage you to do so at our comment section.

Location: how to get to the clinic?

GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center is located at 2150 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. Specifically, Washington DC is a city that surrounds the states of Maryland and Virginia.

The closest airport to the clinic is Ronald Reagan National Airport Washington, which is a 15-minute drive from GW Medical Faculty Associates Fertility Center. Besides, Washington-Dulles International Airport is located a 45 minutes drive away.

Last Update: 05/06/2020