Kelly Salter Acharya MD

Dr. Acharya is passionate about providing personalized and high-quality reproductive endocrinology and fertility care to patients from all walks of life. As the director of the Duke Fertility Preservation Program as well as the Reproductive Endocrinology Liaison for the Duke Prematurity Prevention clinic, she strives to assist women with fertility options in the face of difficult medical and reproductive conditions. She feels honored to be able to provide hope for patients struggling to build their family now or in the future.

Dr. Acharya has a strong interest in evidence-based medicine and in using the most up-to-date methods to provide individualized care for each of her patients. Her research interests include optimizing success rates in IVF, the impact of environmental factors on fertility, fertility options in the setting of a cancer diagnosis and fertility-threatening benign conditions such as endometriosis and sickle cell anemia. Her clinical interests include general infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome, fertility preservation and egg freezing, recurrent pregnancy loss, minimizing risk of premature delivery through individualized fertility care and adolescent reproductive disorders.