Advanced Fertility Services IVF Center offers IVF, Infertility treatment, Inseminations, Egg Donors, Embryo Transfers, Hypothyroid treatment

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 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.

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 performed laboratory work involving thousands of IVF and ICSI procedures. His research publications include numerous scientific papers and chapters in textbooks.

Herbert A. Platt, Ph.D. is the Director of Endocrinology and Andrology at Advanced Fertility Services.  Dr.  Platt received a  B.S.  Degree  in Pharmacy  from  Columbia University, a  M.S. Degree  in Pharmaceutical  Chemistry from   Temple  University and   a  Ph.D.  in Physical Chemistry/Biological Sciences from Purdue University.  Dr. Herbert A. Platt was the  Founder of  the Genetic  Diagnostics  Corporation (a publicly-owned monoclonal  antibody biotech  firm) and served  as its President,  Chief Operating  Officer and  Director since  its organization (1981-88). 

Dr. Platt is a licensed Laboratory Director in New York and is registered with CLIA. He holds several patents in monoclonal antibody technology, has   lectured and published various reports in fertility and infertility. He is a member of the American Association  of Clinical Chemists and  Sigma Xi (the Honorary Scientific Society), as well as a Fellow of the American Association  for  the  Advancement of  Science  and  the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry.

Galina Grigoryan,  is the IVF, Egg Donation and Patient Care Coordinator at Advanced Fertility Services. Galina is a graduate of the First Medical Institute of Moscow and received her medical degree in 1998.  Mrs. Grigoryan has been with Advanced Fertility Services since 1998.  As the Patient Care Coordinator she works closely with Dr. Melnick addressing our patients' needs and concerns.   

Luba Ruzhnikov, R. D. M. S., has been the chief ultrasonographer at Advanced Fertility Services since it's founding in 1983.  She has a vast experience in all phases of ultrasonic monitoring of fertiity treatments and early pregnancy examinations.  She works very closely with our physicians in the  performance of all IVF procedures.

The Ultrasound department at Advanced Fertility Services accredited by AIUM . The AIUM is a multidisciplinary association dedicated to advancing the safe and effective use of ultrasound in medicine through professional and public education, research, development of guidelines, and accreditation.