Third Party Reproduction Program

The Yale Fertility Center offers a series of services involving third party reproduction. The main objective of the services is to provide women an opportunity to achieve a pregnancy that would otherwise be impossible.

Egg Donation
The Yale Egg Donation Program, which began in 1989, was one of the first programs of its kind in the northeast. Oocyte (egg) donation allows women whose ovaries do not contain eggs, or contain eggs that are unlikely to result in healthy embryos, to become pregnant. An increasing number of women are choosing egg donation programs when other traditional infertility procedures, including IVF, have been unsuccessful.

Anonymous versus Directed Egg Donor
Our program offers couples the choice between anonymous and directed (known) egg donors. Anonymous donors for our program are recruited from local colleges and universities and are carefully screened. They are healthy women between the ages of 21 and 32 and have passed a rigorous screening process, which includes extensive genetic and infectious disease screening, a thorough physical examination, a psychological assessment by the program counselor, and thorough cycle monitoring by the program coordinator. Final approval of the anonymous donor is made with the physicians, coordinator, counselor, and recipient couple. A directed donor may be a family member, relative, or friend of the recipient and must pass all the screening tests.

Gestational Surrogacy
This program provides the opportunity of having a baby to women that have either lost their uterus through surgery or who were born with congenital anomalies of the uterus making them unable to carry a pregnancy. Gestational surrogacy is also available to women whose medical conditions advise against carrying a pregnancy.

Embryo Donation
This service provides the opportunity for infertile couples to become pregnant with embryos donated by patients who previously went through infertility procedures at the Yale Fertility Center. Once the donating couple, without identifiable genetic disease, has had the number of children they wish to have, they may donate their remaining embryos to the center for other patients. This provides an infertile woman with the chance to carry a child in utero.

	Arici, Aydin M, MD	Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences	(203) 785-4708 Appts (203) 764-5619 Fax
	Greenfeld, Dorothy, MSW	Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Director, Psychological Support Services	(203) 785-4708 Appts (203) 764-5619 Fax
	Patrizio, Pasquale, MD, MBE, HCLD	Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Director, In Vitro Fertilization Program; Director, Fertility Preservation Program	(203) 785-4708 Appts (203) 764-5619 Fax
	Seli, Emre U, MD	Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; Chief, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Yale-New Haven Hospital; Medical Director, Yale Fertility Center and Yale Reproductive Endocrinology; Director, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship; Director, Egg Donation and Gestational Surrogacy Program	(203) 785-4708 Appts (203) 764-5619 Fax

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