2025 Inception Fertility Physician Summit Brings Together Thought Leaders, Researchers, and Clinicians from Across the Company to Celebrate Patient Dedication, Collaborate on Research, and Discuss the Future of Fertility Care

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Mar 11, 2025, 11:58 ET

North America's largest provider of fertility services collaborates, celebrates achievements in fertility care including unparalleled patient services

HOUSTON, March 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Inception Fertility™ (Inception), North America's largest provider of comprehensive fertility services, held its Annual Inception Physician Summit in Austin, Texas, February 27-March 1, 2025.

The Summit brings together team members, including reproductive specialists and clinical managers, from across Inception's vast network of global fertility clinics, The Prelude Network^®, to share best practices and resources that make each clinic a leading fertility provider in their respective markets.

Learning sessions included panels that focused on Inception's main mission: improving the patient experience. This included discussions on expanding access to care, utilizing Advanced Practitioners to improve patient wait times; providing education, access, and fertility treatment pathways to patients; and navigating patient questions in today's landscape.

The Summit was sponsored by leading technology and medical companies committed to furthering the fertility industry, including Diamond sponsor ReUnite RX, a financial support program that partners with select pharmaceutical companies to serve patients who are undergoing fertility treatments. Platinum sponsors included Organon, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, CooperSurgical, and LabCorp.

"It was an honor for ReUnite to be a leading sponsor of the 2025 Inception Physician Summit, where conversations on enhancing the patient experience took center stage," says Manish Chhadua, Managing Partner at ReUnite. "This is something that ReUnite understands well, as our work to improve financial accessibility and help ease the burden of fertility costs is so important to that experience. We enjoyed our time meeting with some of the world's leading fertility specialist and gaining insights into the future of reproductive medicine."

One of the main events of the 2025 Physician Summit included the Patient Experience Awards, a gathering of team members across Inception that celebrates their contributions to providing aspiring parents with the highest level of professional, individualized care – a focal point of Inception's mission. The winners of the 2025 Patient Experience Awards include:

Patient Experience Outstanding Practice Award Winner: Indiana Fertility Institute (Carmel, Indiana)
Patient Experience Leader Award Winner: Kelly Brunson, IVF Coordinator, Tennessee Fertility Institute (Nashville, Tennessee)
CEO's Patient Experience Emerging Leader Award Winner: Lauren Machamer, Director of Clinical Relations, Center for Reproductive Medicine (Orlando, Florida)
Patient Experience Leader of the Year Award Winner – Safety: Ushma Lakhani, Director of Operations Excellence, Inception Fertility (Houston, Texas)
Patient Experience Leader of the Year Award Winners – Compassion: Sonia Gonzalez, Nurse Manager, Reproductive Medicine Group (Tampa, Florida) and Amber Bross, Clinical Manager, Aspire Houston Fertility Institute (Houston, Texas)
Patient Experience Leader of the Year Award Winner – Show: Robert Nonemacker, Physician Liaison, Main Line Fertility (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Patient Experience Leader of the Year Award Winner – Efficiency: Elissa Pelts, Lab Technical Supervisor, Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)

"The 2025 Physician Summit was yet another milestone in Inception's history, where we collaborated as one family and brought individual perspectives, ideas, and accomplishments in one place. That sort of camaraderie and celebration brings to life the work of our organization to improve the field of reproductive medicine and the patient experience," says TJ Farnsworth, Founder and CEO of Inception Fertility. "I would like to personally thank everyone who attended the event, including our sponsors, for their collaboration and enthusiasm. I especially want to congratulate each of our team members whose efforts were recognized at the 2025 Patient Experience Awards. Their level of commitment to patient care allows Inception to stand out as a leader in fertility care."

About Inception Fertility™

Inception Fertility™ (Inception) is a family of fertility brands committed to helping patients build their own families. Built by patients for patients, Inception's purpose is to achieve the highest bar in experience, science and medicine in an effort to enhance each patient's experience and achieve better outcomes.

Inception's medical experts are leading pioneers in fertility care. Our doctors are some of the first to use breakthrough assisted reproductive technologies (ART) – including in vitro fertilization (IVF), preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) and fertility preservation services – and they continue to lead the industry by building on these technologies by through development, research and thought leadership.

Through its growing family of national organizations – which includes The Prelude Network^®, the fastest-growing network of fertility clinics and largest provider of comprehensive fertility services in North America; MyEggBank^®, one of the largest frozen donor egg banks in North America; BUNDL Fertility™, a multi-cycle fertility service bundling program; HavenCryo™, a long-term reproductive preservation and storage solution provider and NutraBloom®, a premium lifestyle brand with expertly formulated supplements to support individuals' health and wellness goals for preconception – Inception is working to deliver on its promise to push the envelope of what is possible for exceeding patient expectations.

About The Prelude Network^®  

The Prelude Network^® (Prelude), the fastest-growing network of fertility clinics and largest provider of comprehensive fertility services in North America, is the clinic network of Inception Fertility™– a family of fertility brands that touches every part of the fertility journey, including diagnostics and treatment to financial accessibility. 

Each clinic, as part of Prelude, is committed to delivering the highest level of personalized fertility care by the nation's leading reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists and practitioners by focusing on an excellence in science, medicine and the patient experience. The growing Prelude Network has more than 90 total locations nationwide, offering a wide range of fertility services including egg freezing, IVF, genetic testing, LGBTQ+ fertility options, and egg/embryo storage, among others.

Those clinics within Prelude include Aspire Fertility Austin (Texas); Aspire Fertility Dallas (Texas); Aspire Fertility McAllen (Texas); Aspire Fertility San Antonio (Texas); Aspire Houston Fertility Institute (Texas); Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago (Illinois); Center for Reproductive Medicine (Florida); Indiana Fertility Institute (Indiana); IVFMD (Florida); Main Line Fertility (Pennsylvania); NYU Langone Fertility Center (New York); NYU Langone RSNY (New York); Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (Canada); Pacific Fertility Center (California); Regional Fertility Program (Canada); Reproductive Biology Associates (Georgia); Reproductive Science Center of New Jersey (New Jersey); Tennessee Fertility Institute (Tennessee), and The Reproductive Medicine Group (Florida).