This year the Ira and Ester Rosenwaks New Investigator Award goes to Kate Devine, MD. This award recognizes a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine who has made outstanding contributions to clinical or basic research in reproductive sciences published within 10 years of receiving a doctoral degree or completing residency/postdoctoral/fellowship training. Dr. Devine, a board-certified Reproductive Endocrinologist, cares for patients in Washington, DC, and has served as Research Director at Shady Grove Fertility since 2014 and as Medical Director and Chief Research Officer of USFertility since 2022. She is Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at George Washington University and Associate Program Director for the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She supports the research efforts of fellows from 5 USF affiliated fellowship programs.

Dr. Devine serves as Chair of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (SREI) Research Committee, Chair of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) Quality Assurance Committee, and on the Editorial Board of Fertility and Sterility. She has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, received numerous research grants and awards, and spoken nationally and internationally on the topic of her research, which focuses primarily on endometrial receptivity and optimization of frozen embryo transfer protocols. She has conducted multiple RCTs on this topic, including the Sustain Study, which received the 2018 ASRM Scientific Congress Prize Paper and the Synchrony Study, which was published in JAMA in December of 2022.

She earned her BA from Columbia University and MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed residency at New York University Medical Center and fellowship at the NIH.

Previous recipients of the Ira and Ester Rosenwaks New Investigator Award:

2023 Kate Devine, MD
2022 Audrey J. Gaskins, ScD
2021 Amanda N. Kallen, MD
2020 Ranjith Ramasamy, MD
2019 Samuel Zev Williams, MD, PhD
2018 Michael L. Eisenberg, MD
2017 Helen G. Tempest, PhD
2016 Marla E. Lujan, PhD
2015 Erica E. Marsh, MD
2014 Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD
2013 Nathan R. Treff, PhD
2012 Clarisa R. Gracia, MD, MSCE
2011 Lubna Pal, MBBS, MS
2010 Ayman Al-Hendy, MD, PhD
2009 Emre Seli, MD
2008 William H. Catherino, MD, PhD
2007 Elizabeth A. McGee, MD
2006 Anuja Dokras, MD, PhD