Isaac Kligman

Dr. Kligman is very knowledgeable. When in person, he communicates decently and is patient when answering questions. However, the communication and decisions don't seem to be two-way. After my first failed IUI, I asked to start IVF next given my age and for family planning purposes. However, he dismissed my request and made me do another IUI which failed again, meaning a few months slipped by before I started my first IVF cycle.

Dr. Kligman is a better communicator in person. If possible, try to see him vs talking to him on the phone.

During my 3 cycles with Dr. Kligman, I only saw him a handful of times. Cornell treats a high volume of patients and as such, during monitoring, I was seen by various nurses, residents, and doctors.

Egg freezing: Antagonist protocol IUI #1: Natural IUI #2: With Clomid IVF #1: Antagonist protocol IVF #2: Antagonist protocol

I had very little interaction with my primary nurse. I saw her once at the start of each cycle to go over medications.

Cornell has a great reputation. I've spoken with doctors and embryologists at other clinics who speak highly of Cornell and its labs. But, Cornell also has a high patient volume. That means that it seems like a zoo during morning monitoring, and you will rarely see the same nurse/doctor twice. Getting personal attention is very difficult.

It's a zoo, but it is well run.

I had to pay out of pocket for IVF cycles, given I had my eggs frozen a few years before. My insurance company would not cover IVF due to my frozen eggs, and Dr. Kligman recommended doing a fresh IVF cycle before using the frozen eggs.

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Dr. Kligman was recommended to me by a friend. He is very professional and kind. I trusted his treatment plan. He preformed my first ER and my ET. At Cornell you will not see your doctor regularly and the nursing staff is your primary contact. Dr. Kligman called me when I had to postpone a cycle due to results from a Pre- cycle test which I greatly appreciated.

Do not expect to have your hand held. Have a support system outside of Cornell and take comfort that you are being treated at one of the best clinics. When you have an appointment with Kligman have your questions ready and make the most of each visit. I never felt rushed during our appointments.

Cornell is a large facility. You will not see your doctor at morning monitoring. The nurses are your first point of contact and very responsive. When I had an appointment with Dr. Kligman he was always personable and professional. Although I would not expect any doctor at Cornell to be a hand holder.

Two egg retrials using Gonal, menopur and cetrotide. Medicated antagaonist Egg transfer.

The Cornell nursing staff was great. They are quick to return your calls and answer your questions thoroughly.

Cornell is a well oiled machine. Monitoring is from 6:30-8:30am. I usually arrived around 6am as it's first come first serve. By 6:15 there are several women waiting. They run the clinic efficiently but still bring your patience.

I arrive 30 minutes before monitoring opened. There was always a line but arriving early I was usually finished within 30 minutes of clinic opening.

ET- $10k-$15k, meds $3k and ET-$4k

We decided to transfer one embryo. Dr. kligman was respective of decision.

Dr. Kligman has been my doctor since 2013 at which time we did our first IVF cycle and I became pregnant with our first child. I resumed seeing him in 2016 and we are working on number two. Dr. Kligman is the ultimate professional. He is smart, well-versed, courteous and caring. He is always responsive to my concerns and questions and provides straightforward and honest answers (he is not one to sugar coat). In between cycles, I had a natural pregnancy that ended in miscarriage. He insisted on caring for me the whole way through, was completely supportive through a difficult time and even insisted on doing my D&C himself so that he could be comfortable that I would not have any delays when I was ready to try again. He makes recommendations, and feels strongly about them, but will also let you give input on your preferred course of treatment and supports alternative courses of action. We are having a tough time with number two and this is when your care gets put to the test but thus far I have not lost any confidence in him as my doctor. I think Cornell as a practice can be somewhat rigid in approach and I see this from time to time in the way Kligman practices but ultimately he won't stick with something that isn't working. I always feel in good hands.

You have to do some self-education and be prepared to ask questions and prompt him as he won't always be as effusive as you might want him to be. He is 100% willing to spend all the time in the world with you discussing treatment and options but you should come prepared with a list of questions and concerns.

Cornell has a reputation for being a "factory-like" clinic, and I echo the sentiment in regards to monitoring, nursing staff, etc. There are improvements to be made, for sure, but on the whole it is a well run clinic. However, I have never felt like Dr. Kligman was not fully invested in my success and cared personally about my care. If we saw one another on the street, he would recognize me, call me by name and stop for a chat.

On our initial round of IVF, I was 32 and had no identified issues - our issue was male infertility - so was a fairly straightforward situation as these things go. We used ICSI and ended up with 8 day 5 blasts - we put one in and we have our daughter and froze the remaining 7. They were not PGS tested as that was fairly new at the time. All of my FETs are being done on a medicated cycle using Lupron, estrogen and progesterone. We have opted for a single embryo transfer in each case (he has suggested we move to two, which we are considering).

I have had VERY mixed experiences with the nursing team. The attitude, level of organization and information given vary drastically from nurse to nurse. I find that most of them are not very compassionate, frankly - I'm ok with that as I understand they have a difficult job but every once in a while it would feel nice to have a personal connection. I have never been in a situation where I have not timely received instructions or have been given incorrect instructions, however - they are on the whole, organized when it comes to following protocols.

Cornell is a well respected clinic where the doctors confer on approach and they also have excellent support services (genetics, billing, etc.). It lacks a personal touch and that waiting room in the morning for monitoring is about the worst place on this Earth but some of it comes with the territory. It's important to work to establish a relationship with your doctor and his assistant and focus on that and otherwise ensure to advocate for what you need as they are responsive.

The waiting is the worst, and some days it can be up to an hour. This is the number one thing I would change about the experience and wish it could feel less like a cattle call.

Dr. Kligman accepts some insurance and we had coverage for many of our treatments but paid out of pocket for fertility medication and some hospital charges.

It has been my experience that Dr. Kligman will recommend eSET in all cases other than when it is not the patient's desire or when eSET is not producing results. He will always go over the statistics and recommendations with us pre-transfer to help us make an informed choice.

Dr. Kligman was a nice man, who initially appeared to be great. However he spent less than 10 mins face to face time with me to discuss my results and diagnosis. He was reluctant to elaborate on reasons or causes for my diagnosis. When I asked questions (I am from a medical background); he was flippant, a little arrogant about the answers. He prescribed too low a dose of the treatment drug decided on. His office contacted me to congratulate me on pregnancy when it was clear by the numbers and my history of a previous chemical pregnancy that I was having another chemical pregnancy. It was impossible to contact him-having to leave a voicemail for his administrators, who would take 24hours to call you back. He never called me back-he always had a nurse (who is unaware of your medical history) call you back. This clinic is a conveyor belt. The waiting room is not discrete with nurses coming out and just shouting your name out so that the other 100 people in the room can hear it.

Less than 5 mins of consolation time face to face He was reluctant to elaborate on the research or literature behind some of the results of my tests

I was diagnosed with low progesterone. I was prescribed a low dose of progesterone. On my first cycle taking the progesterone I became pregnant. I called his office to arrange a good test. They called me back the next day. After I did the blood (3 days after initial positive result), they congratulated me on being pregnant but told me that my progesterone was low and that I should have been on a higher dose and to start taking more. I already knew it was too late at this point. I told the nurse I thought the HCG levels were too low and she told me to wait another 5 days. I bled 4 days later-without any contact from Dr. Kligmann at any stage of the process. I was also taking a prescription medication at the time related to an autoimmune disorder that he assured me was have to use during the trying to convince period. I have since found out that this drug has been shown (by a number of publications in reputable journals using large study groups) that this medication increases your risk of spontaneous miscarriage significantly. I was never made aware of this by Dr. Kligmann.

I barely remember them; it was always a different person. They would just prep me for ultrasound and not say anything. They shouted your name in the waiting room and when it came to taking bloods you were passed onto another nurse who took the bloods.

Strengths; academic institute with apparently good success rates-active research programs Weaknesses; waiting room etiquette is outrageous. It is like a cattle mart of women and the nurses come out and shout your name. When you go inside it is in and out as fast as possible. There is no humanized aspect to their approach whatsoever.

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Unethical is the only way I can describe this doctor. There was zero communication. He should have told me the chances I had of conceiving with the one terrible embryo I had - Day 3, 5-cell, very fragmented. I didn't know any better at the time. And since I hadn't heard from the doctor, thought that I could and should trust he knew what he was doing. But the transfer should have been canceled. There was never any medication adjustment at all during the stimulation period - I was given the strongest, maximum dosage and suffered with it. Terrible, uncaring doctor. He should not be practising at a prestigious institution like Weil Cornell.

Don't do it. Wait however long it takes to get an appointment with another doctor. One or two months longer will not hurt you in the end.

Couldn't even reach the doctor when I needed to. Never received word on number of eggs retrieved. No word on embryos or how fertilization went or what to expect. No word from the doctor period after retrieval.

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Dr. Kligman's nurses (whoever was on staff September 2013) were absolutely amazing. These ladies are the ONLY reason I was able to even figure out what was going on. They were compassionate, lovely people who really cared about making sure I was on the right track. I am so grateful for the care I received from them.

The clinic is fine. Some would say 'factory-like' which I suppose is true but it's clean and well-run so that didn't bother me. The big thing to know is that monitoring is NOT done by your doctor unless he/she is working that day. The worse thing is that monitoring is not even done by Attendings until you're at least one week into your stims.

Mixed bag. Some doctors were great. And a few (like Kligman) just literally monitored you like a body with a uterus.

$10K per cycle. Does not include the cost of medication which was made clear. Also didn't include the cost of anesthesia which was completely hidden as well as the use of another room in NYP hospital for which there was an exorbitant fee, also hidden.

Dr.Kligman is very knowledgeable, listens thoroughly, and very caring. He always made sure that all of my questions were answered or that I was comfortable with a treatment decision. The clinic is large and has many patients, but he and his team make sure that you are not lost in the mix.

The clinic is definitely set up to process many patients through procedures like IVF and egg donation. This was fine for me, since that is what I was seeking, but if you are in an exploratory phase or seeking more of a diagnostic opinion, I am not sure if this would be the place for that. However - I was not seeking that, so I don't know for sure.

Dr.Kligman's team were very responsive to my questions, requests for information, etc, and all of my care felt like it was based on a real analysis of my needs, not a cookie cutter med protocol.

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You are assigned one nurse, who always meets with you and responds to all of your calls, which is great. The nurse was knowledgeable, helpful and very responsive.

There are top notch resources available, due to the size if the clinic and their affiliations with university and hospital experts. They are very organized, and have great customer service in all areas, including billing. They are very expensive, however.

It was very convenient, especially because you could go in for monitoring at their downtown location or their uptown locations.

It was about 12K for one IVF cycle.

No experience/no comment on this - I only had a single to transfer.

He was very cold and very set in the ways of the clinic. There was no adjustment to our situation or when it wasn't working to change the methods. We did not have success with the Cornell process and there was no real effort to change it or adjust to our specific needs.

If you're doing donor eggs, I would look elsewhere.

Cornell was very much like a bus station, you were a number and there was no specificity to the treatment. When we had trouble with the donor egg process working, there was no adjusting or figuring out what should be done differently, it was just applying their methods over and over again.

We did 2 fresh donor egg transfers and 1 frozen. The fresh were both day 3 transfers because the embryos did not look good. None of the cycles worked. He also advised to do a hysteroscopy. It was fruitless and didn't yield any information at all.

They showed more compassion than the doctor, but it was still like a cattle call most of the time.

It's a fertility mill. You're a number and there was very little, if any, specific, or customized care offered for my specific situation.

More than $20,000 per donor egg cycle.

Dr. Kligman is an expert in fertility. He quickly assessed by situation and created a game plan for my treatment. When each of the various methods we tried didn't work, he quickly made changes to my treatments and protocols to ultimately find a successful route. You can't expect things to happen overnight but he will not give up until he is able to help!

[The] nurses [at Cornell Weill Fertility] are kind and knowledgeable and they walked me through every step of a very overwhelming process and were there for my via phone and email all the time - I am very thankful for their partnership.

As me being the patient doctor kligman was very nice respectful and make sure I understand everything I needed to know. He explained that not every cycle would be same and everytime I come to his office I would only see him.

That go in with a open mind and he’s the best doctor I ever had for infertility

He made me feel like a person that what I was doing or how is feel mattered

They were very professional

The clinic environment is very welcoming love it and would tell anyone to go there. People at the main lobby greet you and make sure that you know where to go. I live the fact the have refreshments and it’s very private area

$35 dollar with my insurance