Atlanta Team

Dr. Sicily Garvin joins Kindbody as a Reproductive Endocrinologist, after completing her fellowship at Wayne State University. Her notable medical research continues to fuel her interest in embryo implantation and early pregnancy loss. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Emory University in Atlanta. After graduation, she worked at Emory University as a research assistant in a neurobiology laboratory. This sparked an interest in biomedical research and she earned a master’s degree in Biomedical Science from the Georgia-Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She then went on to receive a medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. She became interested in the field of reproductive endocrinology and infertility while in medical school. As this specialty, combined her interests in endocrinology, women’s health and innovative research. Motivated by these interests she completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Dr. Kristen Cain is a board-certified Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Endocrinologist who has worked in infertility since completing her fellowship at UCLA in 1995. She was an Assistant Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, before moving on to help start a private practice in Long Island, which grew to the largest infertility practice on Long Island, and the third largest in New York state. She also developed the donor egg and fertility preservation programs while there, opening the first egg bank on Long Island. Dr. Cain moved back to her home state of Minnesota in 2012 to be closer to her family, and was one of three REI doctors serving the entire region of North Dakota, northern Minnesota and eastern Montana. While there, she became a women’s health advocate at the state and national level, working toward improving access to care for infertility patients. Dr. Cain graduated from Jamestown College in North Dakota, and completed medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed an internship in Internal Medicine at UVA in Charlottesville, VA before returning to Johns Hopkins for her residency in Ob/Gyn.

Laura Augustine, CRNP, FNP-C, graduated from Arcadia University with a Bachelor of Arts in biology, focusing her thesis on minimizing chemotherapeutic effects on primordial follicular reserves. She then went on to complete an accelerated Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science in Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She is a board certified family nurse practitioner who has spent the past two years specializing in reproductive endocrinology and infertility in the Philadelphia area. Additionally, she is currently working on the completion of her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at Thomas Jefferson University. She works closely with Dr. Lynn Westphal and Dr. Nastaran Foyouzi in conducting research on improving IVF clinical outcomes.