Our Team of Doctors
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Robert J. Kiltz, MD
Dr. Kiltz is Founder and Director of Central New York’s first successful IVF center. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Fellowship trained and Board Certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
A Graduate from the University of Southern California, Dr. Kiltz completed medical school training at the University of California, Davis. He interned in Internal Medicine at UCLA, and in Obstetrics and Gynecology at USC Los Angeles County Women’s Hospital. After residency at the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver, he practiced for one year at Kaiser Permanente in California. He then went to Harbor UCLA Medical Center for a two-year fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
In the San Francisco Bay area, Dr. Kiltz practiced full time reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Alta Bates In Vitro Fertilization Program and was on the clinical faculty at UCSF. In 1995, he and his family relocated to the Finger Lakes Region in Central New York, where he began the area’s first IVF program. He has special interest and training in advanced reproductive technologies, laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery, gynecology, endometriosis and recurrent pregnancy loss.
Michael P. Grossman, MD
Dr. Grossman is a graduate of Michigan State University. Dr. Grossman’s residency was in Saginaw, Michigan, after which he worked at a private infertility clinic in southeast Michigan. He completed his fellowship at the University of Louisville and has joined CNY Fertility as our Albany physician. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Grossman’s specific interests in infertility include polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), premature ovarian failure (POF), and third party reproduction (donor eggs, donor sperm and gestational carriers). He relocated to the capital region with his wife and three children in August of 2006.
Joseph Massey, MD
Joe B Massey MD, a native of Macon, Georgia attended college and medical school at Emory University in Atlanta. After completing training and two years in the US Navy, his private medical practice began in general ob/gyn with an emphasis on infertility, back home in Atlanta. Soon after IVF was established in Norfolk, he and his colleague Dr Hilton Kort began to realize that IVF was emerging from clinical experiment to clinical reality for patients in the US. Massey’s first step was to visit Monash University in Melbourne for a prolonged tutorial in IVF methods. During his visit the group was to achieve the first donor egg success. Inspired by this accomplishment and the improving success rates achieved in leading centers, the two doctors then established Reproductive Biology Associates, or RBA.
RBA established the first IVF success in Georgia in 1983. In those days many new clinics failed to achieve pregnancies at all. This early success was followed by thousands of others over the years at what was to become the largest clinic in the South. Dr Massey stressed from the beginning that professionals involved in IVF should strive to assist in making improvements in the methods. The clinic achieved a series of major breakthroughs under the guidance of a succession of innovative lab directors including Jacques Cohen PhD who helped achieve early success in embryo freezing. The world’s first micromanipulation-related pregnancy was reported at RBA, demonstrating a pre-ICSI method of introducing sperm. Further micromanipulation trials by the team led to the first publication of assisted hatching to help embryos implant. The first successful randomized trial of co-culture was reported and was recognized with the overall first prize for research by the American Fertility Society in that year. When ICSI was improved and began to allow men with low sperm quality to achieve success with IVF, RBA logged the first US pregnancy. This led to national press coverage.
At RBA in Atlanta, egg freezing trials were long and difficult. Over 100 eggs were thawed before finally three babies were born, again a first in the US and once more leading to national attention. Egg freezing advances by others have ensued and finally egg banks are a reality. This approach offers major cost savings as Dr Massey had predicted but been unable to achieve using the methods of slow freezing then available.
Dr Massey has now turned his interest to improving access to IVF for large numbers of people. He was the clinical chief investigator in a new method to improve IUI. Dr Massey has been following the possibilities of natural cycle in vitro maturation for 4 years. He has attended courses and meetings on the subject and he has written the protocol for a study. This study is the first large scale US prospective randomized trial which is designed to determine the cost effectiveness of the treatment.
Dr Massey feels strongly that assisted reproduction should now be available in the US to a broad spectrum of the population, not only those lucky enough to have proper insurance or the means to cover the costs.
Dr Massey has 5 grandchildren. Three are in Atlanta, born to his daughter and her husband. The two younger tykes are in New York City. His major sports interest is in tennis. Having started only a few years ago to take it seriously, he has graduated from the ranks of beginner more slowly than he would like to admit.
Stephen Cohen, MD
Dr. Cohen has years of experience in minimally invasive surgery and infertility. He has been a professor of OB/GYN at Columbia University and Albany Medical Center. He is an international speaker on many topics including contraception, infertility, sterilization and endometriosis. His area of research is infertility surgery.
In his free time he enjoys his role as a 20 year member of the national ski patrol. Dr. Cohen will be working in both our Syracuse and Albany locations.
Lana Cain, MD
Dr Cain is a board certified Family Practitioner with additional training by Dr Kiltz in Infertility. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut where she majored in Family Psychology and Medicine. She studied medicine at New Jersey’s University of Medicine and Dentistry /Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed her residency in Family Medicine at St Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, Syracuse, NY. She worked as a Family Practitioner since 1999 in Syracuse until joining our CNY Fertility Team in August of 2008.
Dr Cain sees patients for their initial consultation and examination. She monitors patients in stimulation and performs ultrasounds, hysterosalpingograms and intrauterine inseminations. Dr Cain will primarily work in the Rochester facility, but does help in the Syracuse office as well.
Nicholas J. Montalto, Jr, MD
Is a Board Certified Gynecologist. Dr. Montalto completed his Ob-Gyn residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. He specializes in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of endometriosis, infertility, and uterine fibroids. Dr. Montalto has a special interest and training in the DaVinci Robotic surgical system for the treatment of large uterine fibroids and complex gynecology.
Dr. Montalto is a New York native and grew up in Niskayuna, NY. He currently lives in Latham with his wife and three children.
