Alexander Kofinas, MD, FACOG

Alexander D. Kofinas, M.D., FACOG is Director and founder of Kofinas Perinatal PC. He is on the cutting edge of his field and among the few physicians who have completed the rigorous training to achieve board certification in both Obstetrics & Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM). Dr. Kofinas' unrivaled access to advanced technologies, latest techniques, and up-to-date research provides his patients with a distinctive and utterly delightful preconceptional and pregnancy experience. Dr. Kofinas completed his training in MFM at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University, where he kept a full-time research and teaching position for 5 years. Throughout his career, he has taught medical students, resident doctors, and conducted extensive research in the physiology of the human myometrium, the mechanism of human labor, as well as pioneering research concerning the fetal cardiovascular and utero-placental vascular systems.

Since his return to NY in 1994, Dr. Kofinas has been exceedingly involved in ongoing fetal research and is regularly invited to speak at perinatal forums both in the US and abroad. His research has been published in the most authoritative American and international medical journals and textbooks. Dr. Kofinas' exceptionalism, however, comes from his unparalleled understanding of the fetal placenta; he has performed and published dozens of experimental studies regarding the physiology of normal and abnormal placenta function, and its effects on the outcome of pregnancy; his articles have been read and cited thousands of times. Dr. Kofinas, although he was trained as an MFM specialist to treat women with complicated pregnancies (preterm labor, premature rupture of membranes, pre-eclampsia, fetal congenital defects, diabetes, hypertension and fetal growth problems), instead diverted his attention to preventing such major complications. Prevention of disease is the ultimate form of treatment and the only way we can reduce human pain and suffering, not to underestimate the exorbitant and skyrocketing health care costs.

While he was still deeply involved with research on placenta and uterine physiology in animal and human pregnancies, he realized that paying attention to placenta health from the earliest moments of pregnancy, or even before conception, was the only way to help women get a healthy full-term neonate with all the gifts bestowed to it by God. The placenta might be known as the afterbirth and is usually left to fade into oblivion, but in real life, it is the placenta first and then the baby. The placenta is the architect that takes a lump of genetic instructions and transforms it into the human being it will be in the coming 100 years or more. Let us not forget that a neglected and unhealthy placenta is what can destroy even the most genetically perfect and almighty human being, by programming it to develop all fatal chronic diseases during adult life.

Dr. Kofinas' unprecedented and unmatched experience with infertility patients has imparted him with an inestimable glimpse at the growth of the fetal placenta from its absolute earliest stages, empowering him to identify and resolve prenatal complications earlier and more effectively than anyone else in his field. Placenta health and fetal health depend on a balanced immune and blood coagulation system. Dr. Kofinas has comprehensive research and clinical expertise regarding the treatment of reproductive immunology and blood coagulation disorders; and because every patient and even every pregnancy within the same body is unique, Dr. Kofinas, through highly specialized testing, identifies the underlying and otherwise elusive causes of infertility and recurrent miscarriage, and armed with this knowledge, he creates highly personalized protocols specific to the particular patient and the particular and unique pregnancy, to treat his patients who have experienced infertility, recurrent IVF failure, recurrent miscarriage, and other major pregnancy-related complications. Dr. Kofinas has been selected by New York magazine as one of the very few "Best Doctors" in the major tristate area eight times and has always been one of the "Top Doctors" in the New York metro area, and has earned numerous awards as the most compassionate specialist.