Dorothy Mitchell-Leef, MD

Dr. Dorothy E. Mitchell-Leef has been a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) since July 2017 as a Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility specialist since retirement. She has lived in Atlanta for over 42 years. She received her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at the University of Louisville and then did her Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) fellowship there. Dr. Mitchell-Leef came to Atlanta to initiate the Division of REI at Emory University’s OB/GYN Department in 1981. At that time she was an Emory Clinic partner caring for patients as well as teaching residents and medical students at Grady. She was an Associate Professor there for the last five years of her ten-year tenure there. She assisted residents with related research for those seeking REI fellowships.

Dr. Mitchell-Leef joined Reproductive Biology Associates, a private REI practice in Atlanta, in 1991. There she cared for patients for 24 years doing extensive surgery, endocrine evaluations and treatments. The majority of her practice was In Vitro Fertilization care with egg donation, egg cryopreservation for patients with cancer before chemotherapy or radiation, genetic testing for pregnancy loss as well as inherited abnormalities. One of her babies was the first ICSI baby in the Western Hemisphere and did the first 2 surrogate pregnancies in Georgia in 1992 and 1994. She ran the private practice OR as well for 24 years.

Dr. Mitchell-Leef has been President of many societies and is a member of ACOG, ASRM, SAOOG, and Medical Association of Atlanta. She enjoys lecturing residents and medical students and doing REI clinics at Grady with MSM residents as well as private patients at Morehouse at Howell Mill for the last 3 years.