Shady Grove Fertility — Leesburg, VA

Address: Leesburg, VA (Loudoun County) | Phone: 1-888-761-1967 | shadygrovefertility.com

Shady Grove Fertility's Leesburg office brings nationally recognized fertility care to Loudoun County and the western reaches of Northern Virginia. For patients in Leesburg, Ashburn, Purcellville, or the communities along the Route 7 and Route 15 corridors, this location eliminates the need to commute into Fairfax or Washington, D.C. for consultations, monitoring appointments, and many clinical services. SGF is the largest fertility network in the United States, founded in Maryland in 1991 and now operating more than 40 locations across the Mid-Atlantic and beyond. The Leesburg office is part of SGF's seven-location Northern Virginia cluster, giving patients the flexibility to be seen locally while retaining access to the network's centralized laboratory infrastructure and full specialist roster.

For anyone exploring IVF treatment or researching the landscape of Virginia fertility clinics, Leesburg is one of two SGF offices in Loudoun and Clarke counties — the other being the Dulles-Aldie satellite — and serves as the primary clinical hub for that geography. The practice has contributed to more than 40,000 births across the SGF network, and its Virginia physicians have earned peer-nominated recognition including Castle Connolly designations and Washingtonian Top Doctors listings in reproductive endocrinology.

Physicians and Clinical Team

The Leesburg location is staffed by two physicians whose credentials cover complementary dimensions of fertility care: a reproductive endocrinologist who manages the full spectrum of female and male infertility workup and treatment, and a reproductive urologist whose subspecialty focus on male-factor infertility adds a level of surgical and diagnostic precision rarely available at community-level fertility offices.

Naveed Khan, M.D. is board certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility — the dual certification that defines a fellowship-trained REI specialist. Dr. Khan's path to fertility medicine has a personal dimension: he and his wife experienced three years of infertility themselves before conceiving, a history that informs how he explains diagnoses and engages patients navigating the emotional weight of treatment. He studied at Emory University before completing his medical training and has built his practice around translating clinical complexity into decisions patients can act on. His offices at Leesburg and Winchester, Virginia serve a large patient catchment in the northern Shenandoah and Loudoun County regions, and he practices the full range of assisted reproductive technology including IVF, IUI, ovulation induction, egg freezing, donor egg cycles, and male-factor evaluation. In describing his work at SGF, Dr. Khan has noted the network's cumulative outcomes: "I am really proud of how many couples we have helped at Shady Grove Fertility. More than 40,000 babies and counting." He is an active runner and cyclist, having previously competed in track and field at Emory and completed century rides benefiting Air Force Association charities — a detail patients sometimes find unexpectedly humanizing.

Cori Tanrikut, M.D. brings a specialized credential set that most fertility clinics cannot offer in-house: board certification in Urology with a subspecialty fellowship in reproductive urology and male fertility. Dr. Tanrikut earned her medical degree from Georgetown University and completed her surgical residency at Harvard University's Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the most selective surgical training programs in the country. Her fellowship in reproductive urology followed, training her in microsurgical procedures for male infertility — including vasectomy reversals, varicocele repair, and surgical sperm retrieval techniques such as testicular sperm extraction (TESE) and microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA). She serves patients across multiple Northern Virginia locations including Leesburg, Woodbridge, Fredericksburg, Fairfax, Fair Oaks, and Arlington, making her one of the most geographically accessible reproductive urologists in the region. Dr. Tanrikut chose reproductive urology because of what she describes as "the team-oriented approach that is used to help couples conceive" and the demanding precision of microsurgical work. Patients consistently cite her clinical acumen and long-term follow-through as distinguishing strengths.

Together, Khan and Tanrikut provide the Leesburg clinic with both REI-level ovarian and embryologic expertise and board-level urologic management of male factor — a pairing that is particularly valuable for the significant share of infertility cases (roughly half) in which a male-factor contribution is identified.

Services and Treatments

The Leesburg office provides a wide menu of reproductive medicine services, covering the continuum from initial fertility evaluation through advanced assisted reproductive technologies. Treatments and services available include:

• Fertility testing and workup (Day 3 bloodwork, AMH, antral follicle count, semen analysis, hysterosalpingography)
• Intrauterine insemination (IUI) with or without ovulation induction
• Clomid (clomiphene citrate) and letrozole-based ovulation induction cycles
• In vitro fertilization (IVF), including conventional and modified protocols
• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
• Frozen embryo transfer (FET)
• Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) and monogenic disorders (PGT-M)
• Egg freezing for elective fertility preservation and medical indications (oncofertility)
• Donor egg cycles — SGF operates one of the largest third-party reproduction programs in the country
• Donor sperm and donor embryo programs
• Gestational carrier coordination
• LGBTQ+ family building, including reciprocal IVF, co-IVF, and single-parent-by-choice pathways
• Male fertility evaluation and surgical management with Dr. Tanrikut
• Recurrent pregnancy loss evaluation and management

SGF applies a stepped-care philosophy: patients are guided toward the least intensive appropriate intervention first. Approximately one in four SGF patients achieves pregnancy through ovulation induction or IUI before advancing to IVF. Virtual consultations are available for initial appointments, an option that reduces the barrier for patients in outer Loudoun County or Clarke County who may face distance or schedule constraints.

Laboratory and Success Rates

The Leesburg office functions as a monitoring and consultation site within SGF's Northern Virginia network. Egg retrievals, embryo transfers, and surgical procedures are typically centralized at a full-service IVF laboratory — in the Northern Virginia network, that is generally the Fairfax IVF center. This hub-and-spoke architecture is standard at large multi-site networks: patients benefit from laboratory scale, standardized culture protocols, and high embryologist case volume, while reducing travel for the more routine monitoring appointments (bloodwork and ultrasounds) that occur multiple times during a stimulation cycle.

SGF's IVF laboratory infrastructure uses time-lapse incubator technology, standardized cryopreservation protocols, and embryo culture methods refined over more than three decades and 100,000-plus cycles network-wide. The practice was among the early U.S. adopters of elective single embryo transfer (eSET), a policy that has reduced SGF's multiple-gestation rate to approximately 16 percent for twins and under one percent for triplets among patients under 35 — an important quality metric that a focus on raw pregnancy rates can obscure.

SGF reports annual outcomes to both SART and the CDC as required of all ART programs. Historical data from SGF's Virginia IVF centers has placed live birth rates at or above national averages — in the mid-to-upper 40 percent range per retrieval for patients under 35 using their own eggs, based on recent SART reporting cycles. Frozen embryo transfer rates with PGT-A-screened blastocysts have tracked higher. For current clinic-specific statistics, the CDC ART Success Rates database and SART's national summary reports publish annual data for each reporting clinic.

Raw success rate percentages require careful interpretation: patient age, diagnosis complexity, eSET adoption, and whether a practice accepts high-risk or previously failed patients all affect headline numbers. Ask your physician to contextualize network data relative to your specific age group and diagnosis profile.

Patient Experience

Patients at SGF Leesburg consistently highlight the accessibility of having highly credentialed REI and urology subspecialty care available locally rather than in a more distant urban center. Loudoun County's growth as a residential and technology-employment corridor has increased demand for fertility services among working couples, and SGF's presence in Leesburg addresses that geography directly.

Common themes in patient feedback across the SGF Northern Virginia network include:

• Physician credibility: Dr. Khan's personal fertility history resonates with patients who appreciate that their physician understands infertility from both sides. Dr. Tanrikut's Harvard/MGH training and microsurgical specialization carry significant weight for couples managing male-factor diagnoses.
• Male-factor capability: Having a dedicated reproductive urologist on the Leesburg care team sets this location apart from fertility offices that refer male patients out for urologic evaluation. Couples dealing with azoospermia, low sperm parameters, or prior vasectomy can often receive coordinated care without leaving the SGF system.
• Network breadth: Monitoring appointments can be completed at whichever SGF Northern Virginia office is most convenient on a given day. Patients with unpredictable schedules value the ability to be seen in Arlington, Fairfax, or Woodbridge during a stimulation cycle without disrupting their primary care relationship in Leesburg.
• Administrative scale: As with any large-network practice, some patients note that care coordination — nursing callbacks, portal responsiveness, billing queries — can require persistence during high-volume periods. Establishing a named nurse coordinator as a primary contact early in treatment is a practical step that many patients find smooths communication.
• LGBTQ+ and single-parent inclusivity: SGF has explicit protocols for reciprocal IVF, donor sperm pathways, and co-parenting arrangements, and the Leesburg staff reflects the network's stated commitment to equitable access.

Insurance and Financing

Virginia does not carry a statewide IVF insurance mandate. Unlike neighboring Maryland — which has required large-group employer plans to cover IVF since 1985 — Virginia residents depend on employer-negotiated benefits that vary widely and are frequently absent. Patients employed by federal agencies, large technology firms, or government-contracting companies in the Northern Virginia corridor sometimes carry meaningful fertility benefits; verifying your specific plan before your first appointment is essential and saves time in financial planning.

SGF contracts with a wide range of commercial insurance carriers and assigns dedicated financial counselors at each location to verify benefits, estimate out-of-pocket costs, and explain available programs before treatment starts.

For patients without coverage or who prefer a predictable cost structure, SGF offers:

Shared Risk 100% Refund Program: This program charges a single flat fee covering up to six IVF or donor egg cycles, including all resulting frozen embryo transfers. If the program concludes without a live birth and the patient elects to exit, 100 percent of the program fee is refunded. Historically, more than 82 percent of own-egg program participants take home a baby; donor egg participants see an even higher rate of approximately 85 percent or more. Medications and diagnostic testing are excluded from the flat fee. Eligibility is determined by age and ovarian reserve at consultation.

IVF Advantage Multi-Cycle Discount: A discounted package for patients who do not meet Shared Risk eligibility criteria but want to reduce per-cycle costs over multiple attempts.

Third-party financing through fertility lending specialists such as CapexMD is available. SGF financial counselors can also connect patients with grant programs for those facing financial hardship.

For a broader look at insurance landscape and clinic options across the state, see our guide to Virginia fertility clinics.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the Leesburg office perform egg retrievals and embryo transfers on-site?

The Leesburg location is primarily a monitoring and consultation site within the SGF Northern Virginia network. Egg retrievals, embryo transfers, and surgical sperm retrieval procedures are generally centralized at the Fairfax IVF center, which houses a full-service embryology laboratory. Monitoring appointments — bloodwork and ultrasounds during stimulation cycles — can be completed at Leesburg or any other convenient Northern Virginia SGF location, reducing how often patients need to travel to Fairfax during a cycle.

What makes Shady Grove Fertility Leesburg unusual compared with other local clinics?

The presence of both a fellowship-trained reproductive endocrinologist (Dr. Khan) and a board-certified reproductive urologist specializing in male fertility (Dr. Tanrikut) is a meaningful differentiator. Most community fertility clinics refer male-factor patients to external urology practices, which introduces coordination delays and gaps in communication. Having Dr. Tanrikut available at Leesburg means couples dealing with azoospermia, varicocele, prior vasectomy, or failed surgical sperm retrieval elsewhere can receive coordinated evaluation and microsurgical management within the same care team.

What is the first step in starting treatment at SGF Leesburg?

The process begins with a new patient consultation, which can often be conducted virtually for the first visit. Before or after the consultation, patients complete a fertility workup — typically including Day 3 hormone blood panels, AMH, antral follicle count ultrasound, semen analysis, and infectious disease screening. Patients should gather prior fertility records, including any previous cycle documentation, imaging, or semen analyses, before their first appointment to avoid redundant testing. Most patients can proceed to a first treatment cycle within four to eight weeks of their initial consultation, assuming workup results do not indicate a need for additional surgical evaluation.

Does SGF Leesburg provide fertility care for LGBTQ+ patients and single parents?

Yes. SGF has formalized LGBTQ+ family-building pathways including reciprocal IVF (co-IVF), donor sperm insemination and IVF, gestational surrogacy coordination, and embryo cryopreservation for future use. Single parents by choice using donor sperm or donor embryo are routinely served. SGF also maintains legal referral relationships for patients navigating co-parenting or gestational carrier agreements in Virginia.