Inception Fertility's Chief Executive Physician, Dr. Jamie Grifo, Named Top Doctor for the 26th Consecutive Year

Dr. Grifo, who also serves as the Program Director at NYU Langone Fertility Center, has been named a Top Doctor since the start of the coveted Castle Connolly program; 43 physicians across The Prelude Network were also named Top Doctors

HOUSTON, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Inception Fertility™ (Inception), the largest provider of fertility services across North America, celebrates its Chief Executive Physician, Jamie A. Grifo, MD, PhD, for being named a 2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctor. This year's recognition marks the 26th consecutive year that Dr. Grifo has been selected as a Top Doctor.

Castle Connolly Top Doctors are nominated by their peers and then rigorously vetted by Castle Connolly's research team. Evaluation criteria includes professional qualifications, education, hospital and faculty appointments, research leadership, professional reputation, disciplinary history, interpersonal skills, and outcomes data. The recognition methodology has been vetted and endorsed by the Castle Connolly Medical Advisory Board. 

As Chief Executive Physician, Dr. Grifo advises the board on medical trends and priorities that keep Inception at the forefront of patient care and state-of-the-art science-based practice in clinical and laboratory care. This guidance is partly informed by Dr. Grifo's participation in the annual Physician Summit and Physician Advisory Board conference. Dr. Grifo is also the Division Director at NYU Langone Fertility Center (NYULFC), one of the most respected fertility clinics in the country and part of The Prelude Network^® (Prelude). Today, Prelude is the largest and fastest-growing network of fertility providers in North America and is the clinical network of Inception.

Dr. Grifo's contributions to the field of reproductive healthcare include pioneering innovative technologies that have been adopted across the industry and have significantly improved success rates, including preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), preimplantation genetic screening (PGS), and egg freezing. In 2020, Dr. Grifo and his team at NYULFC published a first-of-its-kind, 15-year study showing that egg freezing is a viable fertility preservation option. To date, NYULFC has performed over 10,000 egg freeze cycles, with more than 6,000 of those performed in the last five years. 

In addition to Dr. Grifo, NYU Langone Fertility Center's Reproductive Endocrinologists, Dr. Shannon DeVore, Dr. Elizabeth Fino, and Dr. Frederick Licciardi were also named 2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctors. In total, 43 reproductive physicians with Prelude were included in this year's roundup, securing Prelude as a Top Doctor leader within the reproductive healthcare space.

"It has been an honor to dedicate my career to helping advance the field of reproductive medicine so that more aspiring parents can overcome fertility challenges in order to have their families," says Dr. Grifo. "I have helped thousands of patients realize their dreams of becoming parents, and still, each success story brings me incredible joy and pride in the work my team and I do every day, and those successes motivate us to continue pushing the industry forward. I want to thank my colleagues and Castle Connolly for this honor."

"Dr. Grifo is a visionary who sees endless potential in providing safe, successful, and patient-focused care to fertility patients," says TJ Farnsworth, Founder and CEO of Inception Fertility. "Inception congratulates Dr. Grifo for his 26th year as being named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor, and we just as equally thank him for his contributions to our industry."

In 2025, more than one million doctors were nominated, and the Top Doctors were selected from the top 7% of these nominees. A full list of those physicians can be found here.

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).  

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. 

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