The Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago (AFCC), a premier provider of best-in-class fertility services, congratulates Michelle Catenacci, MD on being named a 2026 Castle Connolly Top Doctor. Castle Connolly Top Doctors represent the top 7% of all U.S. practicing physicians. Dr. Catenacci earned this recognition from a pool of over one million U.S. doctors.
Castle Connolly Top Doctors are nominated by their peers, after which the Castle Connolly research team evaluates specific criteria to determine who should qualify as a Top Doctor, including consideration of each nominee’s professional qualifications, education, hospital and faculty appointments, research leadership, professional reputation, disciplinary history, interpersonal skills, and outcomes data. The recognition methodology has been vetted and endorsed by the Castle Connolly Medical Advisory Board.
A board-certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist (REI), Dr. Catenacci has dedicated her career to helping aspiring parents build their families through compassionate and personalized care. Her specialties include the diagnosis and treatment of fibroids, uterine septums, and uterine adhesions.
“It’s a privilege to partner with patients each day as they face fertility challenges and pursue their dreams of building a family,” says Dr. Catenacci. “I am thankful to Castle Connolly for recognizing my efforts to deliver quality reproductive services and care to my patients.”
AFCC is part of The Prelude Network® (Prelude), the largest network of fertility clinics in North America. Its team of innovative and empathetic reproductive endocrinologists spend real time with each family to understand their goals and develop personalized treatment plans. In total, 48 physicians across Prelude were named 2026 Castle Connolly Top Doctors.
Prelude is the clinical network of Inception Fertility™ (Inception), a family of fertility brands and the largest provider of fertility services in North America, and its physicians include innovators in fertility care who have pioneered some of today’s most advanced reproductive technologies, including vitrification, fertility preservation, and preimplantation genetic testing (PGT).
About Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago
Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago (AFCC) is committed to providing patients throughout Illinois and beyond with the best fertility clinic and IVF experience. Pioneers in the field, our infertility and reproductive specialists consistently beat the national average with high IVF success rates. We offer a wide range of services for problems conceiving, recurrent miscarriage, 40-plus fertility treatment, LGBTQ+ fertility, male fertility, and more. Our services include AMH testing, in vitro fertilization (IVF), intrauterine insemination (IUI), PGT genetic testing, frozen embryo transfer, fertility preservation (egg freezing, oncofertility), egg donation, gestational surrogacy, and reproductive surgery. For more information, visit advancedfertility.com.
About The Prelude Network
The Prelude Network (Prelude), the fastest-growing network of fertility clinics and largest provider of comprehensive fertility services in North America, is the clinic network of Inception Fertility — a family of fertility brands that touches every part of the fertility journey, including diagnostics and treatment to financial accessibility. Each clinic, as part of Prelude, is committed to delivering the highest level of personalized fertility care by the nation's leading reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists and practitioners by focusing on excellence in science, medicine and the patient experience. The growing Prelude Network has more than 90 total locations nationwide, offering a wide range of fertility services including egg freezing, IVF, genetic testing, LGBTQ+ fertility options, and egg/embryo storage, among others. Those clinics within Prelude include Aspire Fertility Austin (Texas); Aspire Fertility Dallas (Texas); Aspire Fertility San Antonio (Texas); Aspire Houston Fertility Institute (Texas); Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago (Illinois); Center for Reproductive Medicine (Florida); Indiana Fertility Institute (Indiana); IVFMD (Florida); Main Line Fertility (Pennsylvania); NYU Langone Fertility Center (New York); NYU Langone RSNY (New York); Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (Canada); Pacific Fertility Center (California); Regional Fertility Program (Canada); Reproductive Biology Associates (Georgia); Reproductive Science Center of New Jersey (New Jersey); Tennessee Fertility Institute (Tennessee), and The Reproductive Medicine Group (Florida). For more information, visit www.preludefertility.com.
About Inception Fertility
Inception Fertility™ (Inception) is a family of fertility brands committed to helping patients build their own families. Built by patients for patients, Inception's purpose is to achieve the highest bar in experience, science and medicine in an effort to enhance each patient's experience and achieve better outcomes. Inception's medical experts are leading pioneers in fertility care. Our doctors are some of the first to use breakthrough assisted reproductive technologies (ART) — including in vitro fertilization (IVF), preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) and fertility preservation services — and they continue to lead the industry by building on these technologies by through development, research and thought leadership. Through its growing family of national organizations — which includes The Prelude Network®, the fastest-growing network of fertility clinics and largest provider of comprehensive fertility services in North America; MyEggBank®, one of the largest frozen donor egg banks in North America; BUNDL Fertility™, a multi-cycle fertility service bundling program; HavenCryo™, a long-term reproductive preservation and storage solution provider and NutraBloom®, a premium lifestyle brand with expertly formulated supplements to support individuals' health and wellness goals for preconception — Inception is working to deliver on its promise to push the envelope of what is possible for exceeding patient expectations. For more information, visit www.inceptionfertility.com.
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