Dr. Jennifer Fay Kawwass, MD - Atlanta, GA - Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility - Book Appointment (2024)

Jennifer Fay Kawwass, MD
Medical Director, Emory Reproductive Center
Associate Professor, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Clinical Director, Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology
Guest Researcher, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jennifer F. Kawwass, MD, joined the Emory Reproductive Center in August of 2014. She is a native of Virginia Beach, VA where she was valedictorian of her graduating class at Norfolk Academy. She then went on to play Division I Field Hockey at Davidson College in Davidson, NC where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BS degree in Biology. She returned to her home state to complete medical school at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where she received the Medical Alumni Association Outstanding Student Award. In 2007, she moved to Atlanta for her OB/GN residency at Emory University during which time she received numerous teaching, surgical, and research awards and was elected by her faculty and peers as an Administrative Chief Resident. She chose to stay at Emory University as a Fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and received awards for her thesis research project, which she completed in partnership with the CDC, where she remains a guest researcher. She is among a handful of physicians nationally who were chosen by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine to participate in the CREST Scholars Program. She also currently acts as one of the Clinical Directors on the Executive Council of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART), the national self-governing body for fertility physicians and practices.
Dr. Kawwass chose to join the Emory faculty because she genuinely believes that the Emory Reproductive Center offers exceptional evidence-based fertility care. She is committed to individualizing and optimizing care for each of her patients. She appreciates the emotional investment that goes along with fertility treatment and is dedicated to making the journey toward parenthood as smooth as possible for them. Dr. Kawwass is particularly interested in infertility, in vitro fertilization, functional hypothalamic amenorrhea, third party reproduction, and fertility preservation (oocyte cryopreservation).
As a guest researcher at the Center for Disease Control, Dr. Kawwass is also a member of the National ART Surveillance Team. A few of her recent contributions to the literature include publications in Obstetrics and Gynecology (tubal factor infertility and perinatal outcomes, monozygotic twinning among ART-conceived infants), Fertility and Sterility (assisted hatching trends and outcomes), and JAMA (donor oocyte trends and predictors of good perinatal outcomes, safety of ART in the US, and ICSI trends and outcomes). Her publications have received national press, including interviews by the Associated Press and USA Today. See full list of publications here:PubMed Link
Dr. Kawwass is board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is fluent in English and French, medical Spanish, and conversational Lebanese Arabic.
Dr. Kawwass’ interests outside of medicine include distance running, foreign travel, and spending time at the beach. She and her husband, Peter Thompson, MD, a plastic surgeon at Emory Healthcare, enjoy spending time with their two children.

Publications
See full list of publications here:PubMed Link

Emory Reproductive Center
2017 Provider Excellence Award: top 10% nationally on patient satisfaction, Press Ganey
2016 OCCR (Online Course in Clinical Research) Certificate, NICHD and Duke CREST Program
2016 Excellence in Teaching Award: Reproductive Sciences
2016 Gold Provider: top 10% of all Emory Clinic providers on patient satisfaction, Press Ganey
2014 Outstanding Research Project by a Fellow, Emory University
2012 Outstanding Research Proposal by a Fellow, Emory University

Emory University School of Medicine
2010-2011 Chief Administrative Resident
2011 “Special Resident in Minimally Invasive Gynecology” – awarded to a resident for laparoscopic surgical expertise, sponsored by Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists
2008-2011 Apple Teaching Award (4 consecutive years): Only resident receiving 5/5 cumulative average on medical student evaluations
2008 3rd place– Resident Research Day

University of Virginia School of Medicine
2007 Medical Alumni Association Outstanding Student Award

Davidson College
2003 Phi Beta Kappa
2001-2003 National Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society
2001-2003 Davidson College Tau Omega Chapter Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society
2001 McNab Fund for Middle East Studies–Dean Rusk Grant
1999-2003 Dean’s Discretionary Fund Scholarship
1999-2003 Academic Merit Scholarship
1999-2000 Dalton M. McMichael Athletic and Academic Scholarship

Norfolk Academy – Valedictorian