Chosen Treatment....and Doctors

After looking at fertility options, we have decided to try IUI (Intrauterine Insemination) or what some people refer to "artificial" insemination.  To see what our procedure will entail...click here

My Fertility Doctors:  Dr. Jeffrey Deaton, MD and Dr. David Wininger, PhD at Premier Fertility Center in High Point, NC.  They came highly recommended and after doing some research on their success, we decided if anyone could help us....it was them.

Jeffrey L. Deaton, MD Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist, Fertility Specialist opened Premier Fertility Center, in August of 2006. He previously served as Associate Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wake Forest University. In this role, he was a practicing fertility specialist and professor.

For much of his tenure at Wake Forest, he served as Head of Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. Dr. Deaton was a part of the Wake Forest staff from 1990 until July of 2006. Dr. Deaton is Board Certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

Dr. Deaton has always worked to offer each couple highly individualized and compassionate fertility services. He enjoyed his work as an Associate Professor where he had the opportunity to teach other physicians about the complex processes involved in human reproduction. However, teaching and other administrative duties can detract from the time available to counsel and treat patients. This is particularly true in larger programs where patients are sometimes made to feel “like a number”.

Dr. Deaton, Board Certified Fertility Specialist, opened Premier Fertility Center in with the commitment to focus on patient care above all other responsibilities. Patients must never feel “rushed,” as they often do in larger or University affiliated programs. His entire staff reflects this same “patients first” philosophy. We also focus on other options, such as adoption, for those couples who have poor infertility treatment prognoses.

Dr. Deaton completed his Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where he remained to complete his medical degree. He developed an interest in women’s health care and decided to pursue residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Connecticut Medical School in Farmington, CT.

During his OB/GYN residency training, he was exposed to all facets of female health care including infertility. He was challenged by the complexity of the reproductive processes and wanted to help couples overcome infertility. He decided to pursue Fellowship training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Vermont School Of Medicine and completed his fertility specialist training in 1990. The field of reproductive endocrinology allowed him to pursue his research interests in an academic setting. Dr. Deaton has been a successful practicing fertility specialist in North Carolina for over twenty years.

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Dr. Wininger received his Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from East Tennessee State University and his Masters in Biotechnology and Doctorate in Zoology from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is certified as a “High Complexity Laboratory Director,” by the American Association of Bioanalysts. Very few embryologists in the United States have achieved this certification, which requires extensive study and competency testing.

Dr. Wininger served as the Scientific Director at Reproductive Biology Associates in Atlanta, GA from 1998-2003. He was responsible for conducting many ground breaking clinical studies in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He also expanded his experience performing IVF and associated procedures such as ICSI, assisted hatching, and preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Dr. Wininger will be performing PGD for genetic disease screening at Premier Fertility.

Dr. Wininger served as the Director of IVF and the Director of the IVF Laboratory at the Toll Center for Reproductive Sciences at Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, PA from 1993-1998.

Prior to joining Premier Fertility, Dr. Wininger served as Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He worked closely with Dr. Deaton to offer all advanced reproductive technologies. His decision to join Premier Fertility was partly based on his desire to work more closely with patients, which is an opportunity afforded by private practice.

Dr. Wininger’s experience in Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility spans more than eighteen years. He is the primary, or a contributing author, of fourteen journal abstracts and five journal articles. His work includes extended embryo culturing and blastocyst transfer. He has also done pioneer work in the freezing and thawing of human eggs. The ability to successfully cryopreserve oocytes will allow women to save their eggs while young for use in the future.

He held numerous academic appointments including Adjunct Research Associate, Department of Biology, University of PA, Adjunct Instructor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.

He is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the American Association of Bioanalysts and the American Association of Tissue Banks Dr. Wininger also serves on the Executive Council of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology.