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What IF?
Imagine your fertility practice with greater efficacy, more support, and better technology.
Innovation Fertility is a network of leading IVF clinics and laboratories. A thousand small decisions go into making one life – we’re experts in helping practices make them.
Innovation is more than what’s new – innovation is what works.
As industry leaders, we believe innovation in the reproductive field is as much about optimization as it is about discovery. Leverage our expertise to streamline internal processes and improve outcomes for your patients.
"Working with Innovation Fertility helped me design a premiere boutique REI practice. They helped with everything from clinical and laboratory design, purchasing all equipment, and providing trained staff."
— Dr. Matrika Johnson, Reproductive Specialists of the Carolina
"Working with the Innovation Fertility team helped us make a smooth transition from a hospital to a private practice setting. They took care of everything from site evaluation, lab design and management, bank financing, equipment and staff planning, marketing strategy and practice management."
— Jeremy Groll, MD, SpringCreek Fertility
"Innovation Fertility is the perfect partnership for our practice. We have been working with Dwight and Kathy for over 10 years, overseeing our IVF laboratory operations. Now we have completely integrated the entire practice with the creation of Innovation Fertility. What is unique to this group is their dedication to a patient first focused mind set, providing all the key components to build and maintain a successful IVF practice. With this partnership, I am able to focus more time on my patients and strive to bring the best possible success rates to southeast Michigan."
— Brad Miller, MD and Medical Director at RMA MI
"Innovation Fertility has been a forward-thinking support system helping us to build a sustainable, scalable and successful practice model. Through supportive and mindful implementation of operational paradigms to execution of an evidence-based IVF Laboratory practice, Innovation Fertility has allowed me to focus my energy on my patients and improve my work-life balance."
— Colleen L Milroy, MD, Medical Director
We’re industry insiders,not a corporate entity.
Dwight P. Ryan
CEO
Dwight is a seasoned executive with extensive finance, accounting, and operations experience in healthcare and technology with early-stage start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Ryan was formerly the VP and Chief Financial Officer from 1987-1998 of the first-of-its-kind infertility services company and took them public in 1991 on the NASDAQ. He developed a revolutionary infertility case management company to streamline patient care and contain medical and pharmacy costs for leading healthcare insurance companies. Mr. Ryan has spent the majority of his career in the area of infertility. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (RMA-NJ) and most recently at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York (RMA-NY). Mr. Ryan founded MedTech For Solutions, Inc in 2006, which provides Group Purchasing, laboratory, clinical, risk management/legal, practice development, and marketing services to the fertility industry. MedTech has built or retrofitted more IVF practices and laboratories than any company in the industry. Mr. Ryan is currently a board member on the national board of RESOLVE, having served over ten years as its treasurer and executive committee member.
Kathleen Miller
D.H.Sc.
CSO
The author of more than 100 abstracts, papers and chapters on fertility and assisted reproduction technologies, Dr. Miller is well known for research advances in the field of blastocyst culture and pre-implantation genetics as well as a leading expert in laboratory management, quality improvement programs, and single embryo transfer. She continues to be actively involved in research projects focusing on time-lapse technology, artificial intelligence integration and pre-implantation genetic screening to select embryos that have the best chance of developing into a successful pregnancy and birth. She has been the managing editor of the IFFS Surveillance since 2014, a triennial survey, initiated in 1998 by Drs. Howard Jones, Jr. and Jean Cohen, assessing practices of assisted reproductive technology at the global level.
Dr. Miller is also the Vice President of MedTech For Solutions and leads the laboratory division’s team specializing in the implementation of cutting edge assisted reproduction technologies, laboratory management and state of the art laboratory design and build out. In 2017, Dr. Miller created the OvaTools Training Institute. The Institute provides academic and theoretical knowledge in Assisted Reproductive Technology and Genetics with the best technical, hands-on training available today in a highly focused and supervised learning environment at the ART training facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Michael J. Faulkner, Ph.D.
VP
Michael J. Faulkner, Ph.D. is Vice President, Practice and Business Development. Michael’s focus is on fertility practice start-up and relocation services, practice operations support and development, strategic partnerships, and new business development. Mr. Faulkner has served as a health care business development executive for over 20 years, including fertility practice and laboratory development, physician practice management, ambulatory surgical facilities, and hospital strategic planning. He has also served as Vice President, Development for a cardiovascular physician practice management company; Vice President for Strategic Business Development for an oncology practice management company, and Chief Development Officer for a private company that developed and operated ambulatory surgical facilities in three states and later merged with a predecessor company of HCA Healthcare.
Mr. Faulkner holds a Ph.D. in health care administration from the University of Minnesota.
Lorie Nowak, Ph.D.
CPO
Lorie Nowak is a catalyst for innovation in human resources with a distinguished eye for talent. She is also co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of SpringCreek Fertility, the first private IVF center in Montgomery County, Ohio. She managed all areas of medical practice start-up and start-up funding, worked with MedTech to design state-of-the-art laboratories, procured insurance contracts, credentialed providers, hired all associates, trained administrative personnel, selected EMR and Practice Administration software, worked with consultants to design the medical office and to implement the IT system. Her skills in hiring outstanding people shows through SpringCreek Fertility’s cutting-edge technologies, exceptional success rates, and outstanding patient experiences since opening in 2014.
Lorie received her B.A. at Colorado College, her Master’s degree from Wright State University and her Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Innovation Fertility News
Innovation Fertility Partners with Alife Health to Bring AI to IVF Clinics Around the Country
Innovation Fertility, Led by Fertility Care Experts, Announces Launch Ahead of ASRM
Innovation Fertility Launches Reproductive Specialists of the Carolinas
Innovation Fertility Announces Acquisition of RMA of Michigan
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