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The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York Partner in Bringing Fertility Services to Queens

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12:01 CST

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, LLP (RMA of New York) today announced the opening of an Infertility Center offering services for women and men in the Queens community. Esteemed reproductive endocrinologist Jane Ruman, M.D., will direct the Center located at 23-18 31st Street, Suite 100, Astoria, NY 11105.

"We are excited to partner with Mount Sinai in extending our infertility services to the Queens community," said Alan B Copperman, M.D., a founding partner of RMA of New York. "We look forward to providing the excellent quality of care that we are known for and delighted to have the compassion of Dr. Ruman serving as the medical director for Queens patients seeking infertility care."

"The addition of Dr. Ruman's presence and expertise continues to demonstrate our commitment to delivering excellent care to the Queens community," said Michael Brodman, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences for Mount Sinai. "RMA of New York and Mount Sinai are leaders in IVF and Advanced Reproductive Services. Our goal is to deliver comprehensive women's care to the Queens community."

Dr. Ruman obtained her Bachelors of Science in Biology with Distinction from Duke University, Durham, and received her medical degree at the University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, in Chapel Hill where she participated in nationally-recognized research on factors that control embryo implantation. She later completed her four-year residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and then a Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University, where she where she continued to publish award-winning articles on infertility treatment and egg donation. Dr. Ruman had been delivering care for the past several years at Long Island IVF before arriving at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Ruman will see patients in her office in Astoria, Queens for consultations, monitoring, and inseminations. She will also see patients in RMA of New York's midtown Manhattan. Patients requiring advanced reproductive technologies such as IVF, ICSI, egg donation or PGD will utilize the state of the art laboratory at RMA of New York's Manhattan center for their egg retrieval and embryo transfer procedures. To make an appointment in Astoria, please call (718) 545-0948. For more information about RMA of New York, call (212) 756-5777 or visit RMA of New York's website http://www.rmany.com/.

About The Mount Sinai Medical Center

The Mount Sinai Medical Center, located in New York City, consists of The Mount Sinai Hospital, a tertiary care facility known for excellence in patient care and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a leader in medical research and in the education of tomorrow's physicians by internationally known faculty. Founded in 1852, The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the oldest voluntary teaching hospitals in the country and in 1963, the Hospital created Mount Sinai School of Medicine, beginning a close collaboration that has made Mount Sinai one of the leading academic medical centers in the country. Today, the patients of Mount Sinai benefit as teams of physicians and scientists work together to rapidly translate laboratory research to new patient treatments. Many of the groundbreaking approaches that result from these collaborations are initially available at only a handful of facilities in the country -- some, only at Mount Sinai. These advances make Mount Sinai the first choice for patients with complex medical and surgical needs.

About Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York

Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, LLP (RMA of New York) is a leading full-service Manhattan-based fertility center, offering services ranging from intrauterine insemination to in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) an Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Led by Reproductive Endocrinologists Alan B. Copperman, MD, Lawrence Grunfeld, MD, Tanmoy Mukherjee, MD, Benjamin Sandler, MD, Jeffrey Klein, MD, and Eric Flisser, MD, along with Male Reproductive Urologists Natan Bar Chama, MD and Jonathan Schiff, MD, RMA of New York achieves some of the highest success rates for in vitro fertilization in the United States. RMA of New York has offices located in midtown Manhattan at 635 Madison Avenue, in White Plains, NY at 15 North Broadway, and in Garden City, NY at 400 Garden City Plaza. For more information, contact Yui Nagashima at (212) 756-5777 or visit http://www.rmany.com/.

Mt. Sinai Medical Center; Reproductive Medicine Associates of N.Y.

CONTACT: Yui Nagashima +1-212-756-5777, for Reproductive MedicineAssociates of New York, LLP

Web site: http://www.rmany.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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