Hugh D. Melnick M.D., F.A.C.O.G has been treating infertile couples since 1976, and is considered a pioneer in the field of outpatient IVF treatment. Dr. Melnick is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where he later served as director of both the Endocrinology clinic and the postgraduate medical course on Human Endocrinology. Dr. Melnick served as a research fellow in the Department of Experimental Pathology at the University of Birmingham in England and spent two years as an attending physician at the New York Fertility Research Foundation. He has published many scientific articles in medical journals and textbooks, and wrote The Pregnancy Prescription, one of the most informative books recently published for couples experiencing infertility problems. Dr. Melnick has lectured widely on topics related to Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology. In 1983, he founded Advanced Fertility Services, the first private, freestanding In Vitro Fertilization Center in the tri-state area and has been its director since that time.

Edward C. Ditkoff, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. is an Associate Physician at Advanced Fertility Services who is board Certified in both Reproductive Endocrinology and Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has specialized in infertility and reproductive endocrinology since 1990. Dr. Ditkoff was formerly an Assistant Professor at Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, in New York City, where he served as the Medical Director for the Division of assisted Reproduction. Dr. Ditkoff not only directed the In-Vitro Fertilization program at Columbia, but also initiated their donor oocyte program and was credited with its first successful pregnancy. Dr. Ditkoff obtained his undergraduate degree from Emory University and received his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the George Washington University Medical Center and his fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the LAC/USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA Dr.

Ditkoff is a native New Yorker who has presented many guest lectures and papers nationally and internationally related to infertility, from public workshops to medical symposiums. He has published extensively in peer review journals in the field of assisted reproduction including induction of ovulation, polycystic ovarian disease and egg donation. Most importantly, he is regarded as a highly skilled and compassionate caregiver.

Kantilal H. Thanki, Ph.D. the Director of Embryology Laboratory at Advanced Fertility Services, obtained his Ph.D. degree in Reproductive Physiology from the University of Texas, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Texas. He spent the next four years with the leading scientists in the field, performing postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine and New York State Department of Health at Albany. He started the first In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) laboratory at UMDNJ in Newark, NJ in 1985 and directed that lab successfully until 1993 when he moved to Advanced Fertility Services in New York City. He has continued to master new technologies such as Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) and Assisted Hatching, traveling to the leading reproductive laboratories throughout the world whenever necessary. He has performed laboratory work involving thousands of IVF and ICSI procedures. His research publications include numerous scientific papers and chapters in textbooks.