George Patounakis, M.D., Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. George Patounakis, MD, PhD, FACOG is an attending physician at Reproductive Medicine Associates of Florida where he serves as medical director and Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from Rutgers University’s College of Engineering. He then earned his Masters of Philosophy and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University before receiving his doctorate in Electrical Engineering with Distinction. His doctoral thesis work was on low-cost integrated DNA microarray platforms, which resulted in a U.S. patent.

Dr. Patounakis received his M.D. from Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and earned numerous academic excellence awards in addition to the Stanley S. Bergen Medal of Excellence, which was the school’s highest student honor. He completed his internship and residency in OB/GYN at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where he served as Administrative Chief Resident. Dr. Patounakis pursued his fellowship training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. While at the NIH, his research focused on cholesterol transport in steroidogenic cells using live-cell microscopy, IVF outcome predictors, and genetic influences on infertility.
Dr. Patounakis has authored and contributed to numerous peer reviewed publications in both the fields of engineering and medicine. He serves as an Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of Assisted Reproduction Genetics and Fertility & Sterility. He has also authored the chapter on gonadal dysfunction and fertility preservation in the widely used oncology textbook DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology. His research interests include statistical modeling of IVF cycles, diminished ovarian reserve, and fertility preservation.

Education and Training

BS	Rutgers University - College of Engineering (2000)
MS	Columbia University (2001)
MPhil	Columbia University (2003)
PhD	Columbia University (2005)
Residency	Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (2013)
Fellowship	National Institutes of Health (2016)

Honors and recognition

Best New Investigator Poster Award – Society of Reproductive Investigation	2016
Howard Lees Kent Memorial Prize	2013
Resident Research Award	2013
Dr. B. Frank Lovett Memorial Fund Award	2012
Stanley S. Bergen Medal of Excellence	2009
Academic Achievement Award	2009
Academic Excellence Award in OB/GYN	2009
Academic Excellence Award in Pathology	2009
Academic Excellence Award in Pharmacology	2009
Academic Excellence Award in Biochemistry	2009
Ph.D. awarded with departmental distinction	2005
Intel PhD Fellowship	2004
Low Power Design Contest Award	2003
Columbia School of Engineering Presidential Fellowship	2000
James J. Slade Scholar	2000

Publications

Missing an important finding: why overly generalizable studies are a double-edged sword.
Patounakis G, Hill MJ

Fertil Steril. 2021 doi:

Presentations

Tiegs AW Tao X Zhan Y Whitehead CV Hanson BM Kim JG Osman EK Seli E Patounakis G Gutmann J Castelbaum AJ Kim T Chaim Jalas O-77 TRANSFER OUTCOMES OF EMBRYOS WITH PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC TESTING FOR ANEUPLOIDY (PGT-A) DIAGNOSES OF UNDETERMINED REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL: RESULTS FROM A PROSPECTIVE,BLINDED,MULTI-CENTER NON-SELECTION STUDY. Presented at 76th American Society of Reproductive Medicine Scientific Congress, Virtual congress, October 17-21,2020

Tiegs A Tao X Whitehead Neal S Osman E Kim J Hanson B Seli E Patounakis G Gutmann JN Castelbaum AJ Scott RT O-084 A multi-center,prospective,blinded,non-selection study evaluating the predictive value (PV) of an aneuploid preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) diagnosis and impact of biopsy. Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation, Vancouver ,Canada, March 10-14,2020

Kim G Patounakis G Juneau C Morin SJ Neal SA Tiegs AW Osman EK Hanson BM Scott RT P-268 ABC TRIAL: BODY MASS INDEX AND PERCENTAGE BODY FAT ARE NOT DIFFERENT IN POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF MISCARRIAGE OR PRETERM DELIVERY IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING IVF. Presented at the 35th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Vienna,Austria, 14-16 October 2019

Neal SA Morin SJ Werner MD Gueye N Pirtea P Patounakis G Scott RT Goodman LR O-214 THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS OF ADENOMYSIS IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH DIMINISHED LIVE BIRTH FOLLOWING SINGLE THAWED EUPLOID BLASTOCYST TRANSFER: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY. Presented at the 35th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Vienna,Austria, 14-16 October 2019

Tiegs AW Tao X Whitehead CR Neal SA Osman EK Kim G Hanson BM Seli E Patounakis G Gutmann J Castlebaum A O-74 DOES PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC TESTING FOR ANEUPLOIDY (PGT-A) HARM EMBRYOS? NO—A MULTI-CENTER,PROSPECTIVE,BLINDED,NON-SELECTION STUDY EVALUATING THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF AN ANEUPLOID DIAGNOSIS AND IMPACT OF BIOPSY. Presented at the 35th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Paris,France, 14-16 October 2019

Kim G Morin SJ Patounakis G Juneau C Neal SA Abc trial: appraisal of body content. Frozen embryo cycles are not impacted by the negative effects of obesity seen in fresh cycles. Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation, San Diego,CA,USA, October 6-10,2018

Morin SJ Patounakis G Juneau CR Neal SA Scott RT Seli E Quantity versus quality: do patients with diminished ovarian reserve (DOR) and poor response to stimulation also exhibit poor blastulation and increased aneuploidy . , , October 28-November 1,2017