Education: Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Residencies: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Fellowships: McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University

Medical Group: Women & Infants Fertility Center

Awards / Recognitions

ASRM In-Training Award for Research, Principal Investigator, American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)

Best Doctors in America (3 years)

ASRM Star Award, American Society for Reproductive Medicine (3 years)

Top 10% of Reviewers, Obstetrics & Gynecology (2 years)

Meet Dr. Jennifer L. Eaton

Dr. Jennifer L. Eaton graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College as a Presidential Scholar. She received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York. She also earned a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Dr. Eaton performed her residency at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she earned two Resident Research Awards. She stayed on for three years as faculty in Obstetrics and Gynecology before moving to Chicago for her fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University.

Dr. Eaton is board certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility as well as Obstetrics and Gynecology. Before joining Women & Infants Fertility Center, she served for seven years as Medical Director of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Director of Oocyte Donation at Duke Fertility Center in Durham, NC. Her interests include research, third-party reproduction including oocyte (egg) donation and surrogacy, polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, and fertility preservation.

Approach to treatment

Dr. Eaton believes that it is an honor and privilege to share in her patients’ fertility journeys. She strives to be reassuring, yet honest, and to listen before speaking. Her approach is to discuss the facts before offering her own opinion.

Her goal is to partner with male and female patients and treat them with the same care she would provide her own family member or best friend. Dr. Eaton finds that there’s nothing more rewarding than helping her patients achieve their dreams of building a family.

In her spare time, she loves to ski, exercise, and spend time with her husband and two children.

Organizations

• Fellow, American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG)
• Member, Physician Scientists’ Special Interest Group, Annual Meeting Abstract Committee, Task Force on Subclinical Hypothyroidism, ASRM
• Certifying Examiner, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Member, Practice Committee, Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
• Member, The Endocrine Society
• Member, Society for Reproductive Investigation
• Member, Society of Reproductive Surgeons
• Member, Quality Assurance Committee, Vice Chair of Research Committee, Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART)

Education: University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago

Rutgers University

Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Fellowship: Brown University School of Medicine

Medical Group: Women & Infants Fertility Center

Awards / Recognitions

Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Excellence in Resident Teaching from Brown University/Women & Infants Hospital award.

Best Teaching Resident from Johns Hopkins Hospital award

Excellence in Teaching for Medical Student Education from Johns Hopkins Hospital award.

Meet Dr. Virigina A. Mensah

Dr. Virginia A. Mensah is double board-certified in reproductive endocrinology & infertility and obstetrics & gynecology. She received her medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, where she decided on a career in obstetrics and gynecology for its emphasis on women’s health and reproduction. Completing her residency training at the renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Mensah received a teaching award for medical student education and published in several peer reviewed journals. She completed her fellowship training at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University/Women & Infants Hospital, where she again received a teaching accolade and continues to participate in research into reproductive outcomes in infertile patients.

Approach to treatment

A devoted physician, Dr. Mensah is committed to providing excellence in the medical and surgical care of her patients. She understands the stigma associated with infertility, and provides compassionate care to her patients with the optimism and hope of successful treatment outcomes. She loves assisting couples in building healthy families. When not devoting time to patient care, she enjoys spending quality time with her own family, as well as enjoying painting, music and a good book.

Special interests

• Infertility
• In vitro fertilization
• Preimplantation genetic testing
• Oocyte cryopreservation
• Fertility preservation
• Surgical expertise in hysteroscopic and laparoscopic cases

Education: Sackler School of Medicine-New York State/American Program of Tel Aviv University, Israel

Residency: Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospitals Icahn School of Medicine

Fellowships: Women & Infants Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Medical Group: Women & Infants Fertility Center

Awards / Recognitions

ASRM In-Training Award for research-selected by ASRM Scientific Program Committee American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), 2019

SREI Fellow Education Day Award to attend the Oncofertility Conference Oncofertility Consortium, Northwestern University, 2019

Fellow Excellence in Teaching Award for resident medical education, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University/Women & Infants Hospital, 2018

Dean’s Award for Top 3rd Year Student on Clinical Rotations Sackler School of Medicine, 2010

DELE Certification/Award for excellence in Spanish language Spanish Embassy, Tel Aviv, 2007

Departmental Honors for senior thesis, “Interferon-Responsive Genes are Induced by 3,3'-Diindolylmethane (DIM) in MDA-231 Human Breast Cancer Cells.” 2003

Honors List, University of California Berkeley, 1999-2003

Meet Dr. May-Tal Sauerbrun-Cutler

Dr. May-Tal Sauerbrun-Cutler was born in Los Angeles but spent a lot of time growing up with her family in Israel. Her love for Israel and desire to be closer to her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins led her to study medicine at Sackler School of Medicine-New York State/American Program of Tel Aviv University in Israel, where she earned her doctor of medicine degree in 2010 and the Dean’s Award for Top Student on Clinical Rotations. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospitals Icahn School of Medicine in 2014. In 2020 she finished a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Women & Infants Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

As an undergrad at the University of California, Berkeley she majored in cellular and molecular biology and was involved in women’s health and oncological research. She completed an honors thesis on breast cancer cells and the effects of indoles (chemicals found in broccoli) on breast cancer cell proliferation and cell death.

Dr. Sauerbrun-Cutler has been with Women & Infants Fertility Center since 2017 as a fellow and joined The Center as a staff physician in 2020. Her research interests include endometrial receptivity, embryo development and fertility preservation, which is also a clinical focus.

In addition to her professional organization memberships (listed below), Dr. Sauerbrun-Cutler is on the editorial board of the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. She also serves as an editorial reviewer for Fertility and Sterility, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, and the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. She is also active as an undergraduate medical educator.

Dr. Sauerbrun-Cutler began her own family while pursuing her medical training. Following her residency and while working as a general OB/GYN at the Hallmark Health System in Melrose, Massachusetts, she and her husband, Alex, welcomed their first son, Micah. A month prior to the beginning of her fellowship, they welcomed their second son, Isaac. She and her family love going to the beach and exploring New England's beautiful sights.

Organizations

• New England Fertility Society
• American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL)
• American Society for Reproductive Medicine
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Fellow

Education: Jefferson Medical College

Residencies: Miami Valley Hospital

Fellowships: University of Pennsylvania Hospital

Medical Group: Women & Infants Fertility Center

Awards / Recognitions

Named to Rhode Island Monthly magazine’s “Top Docs” list for Reproductive Endocrinology every issue since its inception

Co-chair of the Resident Education Committee for the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Member of the Education Committee for American Society for Reproductive Medicine

Member of the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Board of Directors

Chair of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Special Interest Group 

Meet Dr. Wheeler

Dr. Wheeler earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Following this, she completed her residency training in obstetrics at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, OH, and her fellowship training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to joining the team at Women & Infants Fertility Center in 1990, Dr. Wheeler practiced in New Orleans. Dr. Wheeler is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology as well as reproductive endocrinology and infertility with a focused practice designation in pediatric and adolescent gynecology. She is the medical director of the center’s In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Program and of the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Clinic.

Approach to treatment

Dr. Wheeler chose reproductive endocrinology and infertility as her specialty because it gives her the opportunity to improve the quality of life for women from adolescence to menopause with reproductive health issues. Dr. Wheeler believes that she makes a difference for women, whether it be dealing with menstrual-related issues or helping them build families.

Dr. Wheeler aims to do everything possible to make sure that her patients receive the very best care in an uncompromising manner. Her patients come first in everything she does. Dr. Wheeler enjoys training the next generation of physicians, so they can continue the work she is currently doing. Active in teaching trainees at all levels with research interests in education, Dr. Wheeler acts as a mentor for many future obstetrician/gynecologists and is happy to share her knowledge and experience.

Dr. Wheeler provides individualized care and embarks on a joint decision-making process with her patients. She takes care to give her patients information and data so they can understand the thought processes and options, and ultimately decide what’s best. Dr. Wheeler focuses on listening to her patients’ needs with sensitivity and empathy. She aims to be open and honest with every patient, acknowledging that each patient has her or his own sets of values that should guide decisions about care.

In her spare time Dr. Wheeler is involved in numerous church activities. She sings in her church choir, rings in the hand bell choir and serves on the board of trustees. Dr. Wheeler also works with children in the church as an acolyte leader and bible school teacher. Outside of church she enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband and two adult children.

Special interests

• In vitro fertilization outcomes.
• Resident education in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, as well as pediatric and adolescent gynecology.

Education: Bachelor's degrees in nursing and psychology

Master of Science - Women's Health Nurse Practitioner

Medical Group: Women & Infants Fertility Center

Awards / Recognitions

Golden Key National Honor Society Inductee.

Psi Chi Psychology National Honor Society Inductee.

Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society Inductee.

Donald J. White Excellence in Teaching award at Boston College.

Clinical Excellence award in Women’s Health at Boston College.

Meet Jacalyn Finerty

Jackie started working as a secretary in the labor and delivery unit at Women & Infants Hospital when she started nursing school. It was there that she found her passion for women’s health. She has worked as a nurse in many aspects of women’s health in relation to childbearing, including labor and delivery, the operating room (where she served as a clinical educator), high-risk obstetrics, and reproductive medicine.

Jackie is extremely proud that she has attained her professional goal of working as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. She works closely with inter-disciplinary teams that always keep the patient as the center of focus. She appreciates that reproductive medicine allows her to directly take care of patients, while helping them achieve their goals of building their family.

Approach to treatment

Kindness, empathy, and a nonjudgmental approach to guiding patients through any healthcare journey are hallmarks of Jackie’s patient care philosophy. She employs a multi-angle approach to patient care, always including a thorough investigation into the individual’s healthcare needs.

“I’ve been a nurse for 20 years and have the ability to care for patients, listen to their needs, and make them comfortable – even at their most frightened,” she says. “I am proud to have been a part of Women & Infants Hospital for almost 22 years. Throughout the years, this has given me the opportunity to grow and learn from this wonderful team, with respect to the care of women and their needs.”

Did you know?

• Jacalyn Finerty was born in Brooklyn and moved to New England in early childhood. She now lives in Massachusetts.
• She has a husband and two children, who benefit from her love of cooking and experimenting with different recipes.
• She plays the flute and piano. She also loves sunshine, swimming, water skiing, horseback riding, traveling, and keeping in touch with friends and family near and far.