Fertility clinic

Southeastern Center for Fertility and Reproductive Surgery, PLLC

11126 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37934

Southeastern Center for Fertility and Reproductive Surgery, PLLC reported 468 ART cycles to the CDC for 2022, below the median of 575 cycles among the 7 CDC-reporting clinics in Tennessee. For patients using their own eggs, the CDC published a percentage for patients under 35, 35–37 and 38–40; one band has no published rate. The CDC lists donated embryos, embryo cryopreservation and egg cryopreservation among its services. It is not listed as a SART member.

CDC 2022 · live births per intended egg retrieval · patients under 35, own eggs

40.8%based on 103 intended retrievalsUS average 49.7%

Clinic details

Address11126 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37934
Phone865-777-0088
Medical directorJohn D. Gordon, MD
CDC clinic statusOpen
SART memberNo
Lab accreditation verified by CDCYes
CDC clinic ID436
CDC dataCDC data released Dec 18, 2024; fetched Oct 22, 2026

CDC report verified by John D. Gordon, MD.

Services

  • Donated embryos
  • Embryo cryopreservation
  • Egg cryopreservation

Services are the five the CDC asks every clinic to report. Clinics offer more; ask directly.

Total ART cycles (2022)468
Fertility preservation cycles (2022)7
Pregnancies (2022)217
Live-birth deliveries (2022)177
Infants born (2022)219

Success rates by age (2022)

Patients using their own eggs, grouped by the CDC's four age bands. Each cell is the clinic's CDC-reported figure; the smaller “US” line is the national figure for the same cell.

Patients using their own eggs, by age
Measure Under 3535–3738–40Over 40
All patients using their own eggs
Live births per intended egg retrieval 40.8% US 49.7% 11.4% US 36.3% 40.9% US 23.1% —
Singleton live births per intended egg retrieval 35.9% US 46.7% 11.4% US 34.5% 31.8% US 22% —
Live births per actual egg retrieval 48.3% US 52.6% 15.4% US 39.7% 9 of 17 US 26.1% —
Live births per transfer 43.3% US 49.1% 16% US 46% 9 of 19 US 41.2% —
Singleton live births per transfer 38.1% US 46.2% 16% US 43.7% 7 of 19 US 39.2% —
Average transfers per intended egg retrieval 0.9 US 1 0.7 US 0.8 0.9 US 0.6 0.5 US 0.3
Average intended egg retrievals per live birth 2.5 US 2 8.8 US 2.8 2.4 US 4.3 8.5 US 12.9
New patients (no prior ART) using their own eggs: cumulative outcomes
New patients: live birth after 1 intended retrieval 43.3% US 53.4% — — —
New patients: live birth after 1 or 2 intended retrievals 58.3% US 59.6% — 5 of 10 US 32.7% —
New patients: live birth after all intended retrievals 61.7% US 60.8% — 5 of 10 US 35.2% —
New patients: average intended retrievals per patient 1.4 US 1.2 1.4 US 1.3 1.6 US 1.4 2.3 US 1.6
Number of cycles behind the rates (2022)
Intended egg retrievals 103 35 22 17
Egg retrievals 87 26 17 11
Transfers 97 25 19 9

“US” is the CDC national figure for the same measure and group. “—”: the CDC published no value. Its asterisk (*) means a reported sample size of 1 through 4, suppressed for privacy, along with any value that could be used to derive it. A value such as “9 of 15” is the CDC's own fraction: the CDC uses fractions for rates with denominators less than 20. It is not converted to a percentage.

Donor eggs and donated embryos (2022)

By egg and embryo source rather than patient age: with donor eggs, the donor's age drives the outcome.

Patients using donor eggs or donated embryos
Measure Fresh Embryos Fresh EggsFresh Embryos Frozen EggsFrozen EmbryosDonated Embryos
Live births per transfer No cycles reported No cycles reported No cycles reported 47.5% US 42.2%
Singleton live births per transfer No cycles reported No cycles reported No cycles reported 36.8% US 39%
Number of cycles behind the rates (2022)
Transfers 0 0 0 242

“US” is the CDC national figure for the same measure and group. “No cycles reported”: the CDC reported no cycles meeting this criterion. It prints 0.0 there with that footnote; it is not a 0% success rate and is not compared with the US figure.

Cycle characteristics (2022)

Context for the rates: how often cycles stopped early, and how much of the clinic's practice is frozen transfer, ICSI, PGT, fertility preservation and gestational carriers.

Share of cycles and transfers, by age
Measure Under 3535–3738–40Over 40All ages
Intended retrievals with no eggs retrieved 8.2% 12.5% 17.9% — 12.3%
Cycles stopped after retrieval, before transfer or banking 6% 8.2% 1.2% 2% 5.1%
Cycles for fertility preservation 1.8% 1.9% 1.1% 0% 1.5%
Transfers using a gestational carrier 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Transfers using frozen embryos 71.8% 63.5% 77.5% 84.8% 72.7%
Transfers with ICSI 32.8% 36.5% 30% 8.7% 30.3%
Transfers with preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) 0.5% 0% 0% 2.2% 0.5%

“—”: the CDC published no value. Its asterisk (*) means a reported sample size of 1 through 4, suppressed for privacy, along with any value that could be used to derive it.

Reasons patients used ART (2022)

Diagnoses as reported to the CDC; a cycle can have more than one, so the shares add to more than 100%. This is the patient mix behind the rates above.

  • Male factor49%
  • Endometriosis15%
  • Tubal factor11%
  • Ovulatory dysfunction12%
  • Uterine factor2%
  • Diminished ovarian reserve14%
  • Egg or embryo banking2%
  • Recurrent pregnancy loss4%
  • Other factor, infertility16%
  • Other factor, non-infertility6%
  • Unexplained factor21%

What the measures mean

Intended egg retrieval
A cycle started “with the plan to retrieve eggs”, counted whether or not any eggs were retrieved, so cancelled cycles stay in the denominator. Rates per intended retrieval are cumulative: they count live births from every embryo transfer within 1 year after that retrieval, fresh or frozen.
Egg retrieval (actual)
“A procedure to collect the eggs contained in the ovarian follicles.” Rates per actual retrieval are cumulative in the same way but leave out cycles cancelled before retrieval, so they are never lower than the rate per intended retrieval.
Transfer
“Placement of embryos into a woman's uterus through the cervix after IVF.” A rate per transfer counts each transfer on its own, so cycles that never reached a transfer are not in it. It is not always the highest rate: in 2022 the US figure for patients under 35 was 49.1% per transfer against 49.7% per intended retrieval. In the older bands, where many cycles never reach a transfer, it is usually higher (over 40: 25.4% per transfer, 7.7% per intended retrieval).
Live-birth delivery
“The delivery of one or more infants with at least one born alive.” A singleton live-birth delivery is “the delivery of a single infant born alive.”
New patients: cumulative outcomes
Patients with no prior ART, followed through one, two, or all of their intended retrievals, counting transfers of fresh or frozen embryos from those retrievals. This is the closest the report comes to “my chance of a baby from starting treatment”.
Age bands
The CDC groups patients using their own eggs as under 35, 35 to 37, 38 to 40, and over 40, because egg quality falls with the patient's age. Donor-egg rates are not split by age: the donor's age drives them, not the patient's.

Definitions follow the CDC ART glossary and the CDC's guide to interpreting success rates; see the guide to reading the report for worked examples.

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Sources: data.cdc.gov (clinic record, phone, services and clinic profile; fetched Oct 22, 2026) ; data.cdc.gov (clinic profile, cycle counts and cycle characteristics; fetched Oct 22, 2026) ; data.cdc.gov (success rates; fetched Oct 22, 2026) . CDC data released Dec 18, 2024; fetched Oct 22, 2026. Contact details are as the clinic reported them to the CDC for 2022; they were not re-checked with the clinic.