Dr. Anika Whitfield, MD
Co-founder & Medical Director
Board-certified in REI, formerly of Brigham and Women's. 14 years of clinical practice.
About
A small clinic with a clearer way to do this.
Founded in 2019 in Bristol, Rhode Island. We chose to be small. The clinic was built around the question we kept hearing from patients elsewhere: why is it so hard to find out what is happening to me?
Our practice
We believe being informed is the most underrated form of care.
Bristol Fertility Center was founded in 2019 on a question that the founders kept hearing from their patients elsewhere: why is it so hard to find out what is happening to me?
We built a clinic in which the answer is structural. Every patient gets a written care plan, every result is posted the same day, every cycle is run by a named nurse, and every decision is on the record. The clinical work is uncompromising; the operational backbone is what makes the clinical work visible.
The platform underneath BFC is EnhancedDx, the fertility-care system used across our practice and a small number of partner clinics. It is the reason we can say we are different and back it up.
A note from the founders
“We started Bristol Fertility Center because we kept hearing the same sentence from patients arriving at our last practice: nobody told me what was going on. That should not be the central anxiety of fertility care, and at BFC, it is not.”
— Dr. Anika Whitfield & Dr. Marcus Avalos, Co-founders
The team
Small, deeply experienced, on a first-name basis.
We hire slowly. The same physician, embryologist and care team carry your case from start to finish.
Dr. Marcus Avalos, MD
Co-founder & Reproductive Endocrinologist
Trained at Yale School of Medicine, fellowship at NYU Langone. Special interest in male-factor and onco-fertility.
Dr. Priya Kapoor, MD
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Fellowship-trained at Massachusetts General. Lead for our LGBTQ+ family-building program.
Dr. Elena Sokolova, PhD
Embryology Director
PhD in reproductive biology, 18 years in IVF labs across Boston, San Francisco, and London.
Demo team. Production deployments populate from the clinic directory.
Get in touch
Come and see for yourself.
The waiting area faces Bristol Harbor. The exam rooms have actual windows. Come visit — or start with a remote consultation.