Scientist. Physician.
Builder. Voice.
This is the story behind the credentials.
Before the clinic, the laboratory.
Her career began with viruses, not patients: a PhD in microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester through the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program, researching HIV and HSV‑1 vaccine vectors. Her first-author work appeared in Vaccine before she ever wrote a prescription.
VACCINE · 2007 · FIRST AUTHOR · READ ON PUBMED ↗HSV-1 amplicon vectors elicit polyfunctional T cell responses to HIV-1 EnvTrained where medicine is written.
An MD from Rochester, residency in gynecology and obstetrics at Johns Hopkins, fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Yale. Board-certified OB-GYN, FACOG: one of a small number of US-trained REI subspecialists practicing worldwide.
She did not join an institution. She built one.
For more than a decade she led a full-service fertility center in the United States: onsite andrology and embryology laboratories, an accredited ambulatory surgical facility, and a full egg and sperm cryobank. Alongside it, a countrywide virtual women's health clinic serving the Southern Caribbean. The regulatory record she directed personally: an FDA-registered, CAP-accredited high-complexity laboratory, and tissue licensure in every US state that requires it, plus Canada.
Twenty patients a day. Six hundred cycles a year.
She was the primary treating physician at her clinic, seeing roughly twenty patients a day: IVF and frozen embryo transfer, ultrasound-guided egg retrievals, office and operative hysteroscopy, advanced laparoscopy, and fertility preservation for adults and for children facing cancer therapy. At its peak, the program she led ran approximately six hundred IVF, IUI and FET treatment cycles a year. Across two decades of practice, more than ten thousand babies have been born in her care.
Medicine, aligned with biological time.
Her own patent-pending framework: the System for Unified Nutrition Rhythms and Insulin Sensitivity Enhancement. SUNRISE aligns nutrition, movement, sleep, recovery and therapy, including GLP-1 based treatment, with the body's circadian clock. It is where her decades in hormonal science converge, and the subject of her forthcoming book, The SUNRISE Method.
Science that leaves the journal.
Television, radio, podcasts, print and a following she built herself: Dr. Duke translates reproductive science for the audiences that need it, and industry listens. Her exact role is labelled on every media record on this site.
Sixty thousand, and counting.
Open to the right collaborations.
Dr. Duke has dedicated her life to helping people, inside and outside the clinic. She welcomes proposals from teams and organizations whose values align with her own, across fertility, hormonal and preventive health, education and public science.