Kara Goldman, MD is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Fertility Preservation at Northwestern University. She earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude from Duke University and MD from Loyola University with Honors in Bioethics. She completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University and fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at New York University.

Dr. Goldman’s clinical work focuses on the treatment of infertility and the preservation of fertility in patients facing physiologic ovarian aging and those anticipating gonadotoxic therapy. Her translational work focuses on mechanisms underlying physiologic and iatrogenic ovarian aging, with a specific interest in the role of mTOR signaling in ovarian aging. Her work has been twice awarded the Scientific Program Prize Paper award and the Fertility Preservation Prize Paper award by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). Dr. Goldman is past-chair of the ASRM Fertility Preservation Special Interest Group, serves on the executive board of the Oncofertility Consortium, and is an active editorial board member for the journal Fertility and Sterility and the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. She is dedicated to improving reproductive health education and increasing access to care, and to that end Chairs the Clinical Advisory Board of the Buck Institute’s Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity and Equality. She actively contributes to the advocacy efforts of the Alliance for Fertility Preservation and serves on the Medical Advisory Boards of fertility grant programs Team Maggie’s Dream and Hasidah.

Dr. Goldman’s clinical work and research have been promoted and published in sources ranging from the Today Show, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio to JAMA Oncology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, highlighting the wide reach of her work within reproductive science and medicine.