Micheline C. Chu, MD, a specialist in infertility and reproductive endocrinology, joined Huntington Hospital’s Women’s Health Center, providing women with access to advanced subspecialized care within the local community.

Dr. Chu, who has been a member of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System’s Center for Human Reproduction since July, is on-site at Huntington Hospital’s Women’s Health Center on Mondays and
Thursdays, providing state-of-the art diagnostic and clinical services.

Dr. Chu graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. She completed her OB/GYN
residency at Yale University School of Medicine and her fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Chu is the author of numerous research papers in the fields of gynecologic oncology and reproductive endocrinology. Special areas of interest include polycystic ovary syndrome.

Dr. Chu is looking forward to working collaboratively with Huntington Hospital’s staff of attending
obstetrician/gynecologists to assist with the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of reproductive endocrinology issues, including complicated hormonal and infertility disorders.

“Huntington Hospital already has a staff of highly qualified physicians in women’s health, and the Women’s Health Center is fully equipped to perform the diagnostic testing and monitoring that many of these patients require,” said Dr. Chu. Patients who are battling infertility and are candidates for in vitro fertilization may have all of their diagnostic testing and monitoring performed in the local community by Dr. Chu, although they would still be required to visit the Center for Human Reproduction at North Shore-LIJ in Manhasset for certain specialized procedures.

Dr. Chu noted that once pregnancy is achieved, either through IVF or other interventions, patients can return to their own obstetricians for management of the pregnancy and delivery. Many local couples choose to deliver their babies at Huntington Hospital because of the state-of-the-art labor, delivery, and recovery suites (LDRs), the 24-hour neonatology program, level 2 nursery, antepartum
testing service, and award-winning nursing care.

“These elements make Huntington Hospital a safe, convenient, and special place to deliver a baby,” said Mitchell Kramer, MD, Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Huntington.

In addition to seeing patients in the Women’s Health Center, Dr. Chu will be available to assist the hospital’s attending gynecologists with surgical procedures.

“By virtue of her training, Dr. Chu brings state-of-the-art care to our community,” said Dr. Kramer. “Her presence here provides women in our community with the added convenience of not having to travel far in order to have access to this level of care.”

Oct 2005 Healthline