Programs & Services - Donor Egg Program

Our Donor Egg Team

The success of our Donor Egg Program starts with our team of experts. Everyone here at Long Island IVF has the highest possible qualifications and national certifications, including our Donor Egg Team.

Please click on the links below to see individual biographies.

Victoria Loveland, RN, ANC
Aviva Zigelman, LCSW, BCD

Daniel Kenigsberg, MD
Steven Brenner, MD

Victoria Loveland, RN, ANC

Vicky graduated from Hartford Hospital School of Nursing over 32 years ago. After completing one year of intensive medical nursing, she switched to a labor and delivery unit at a busy, prominent Army Hospital. It is there that "Vicky's" true passion was born. Her love of women's healthcare has been her focus throughout her career. She has the unique ability to truly empathize with our patients, as she underwent her own infertility struggles which culminated in the birth of her twins, 27 years ago. Following the birth of her children, she worked in a labor and delivery unit at a local area hospital. She was known throughout the hospital for her delivery of warm, compassionate care. She was also instrumental in establishing a postpartum maternity clinic, that earned her great respect within the hospital and the surrounding community. Fortunately for us, she relocated to Long Island and joined us, quickly establishing her career as an IVF nurse 13 years ago.

As our Donor Egg Program ANC, she oversees the Donor Egg staff and the coordination of recipient and donor care throughout their cycle. Her ability to communicate and show people her caring nature, has helped most people feel comfortable with the process. Her goal is to deliver excellent individual care, and give all patients hope in this difficult setting.

Aviva Zigelman, LCSW, BCD

Aviva Zigelman, LCSW, is the program director and clinical coordinator for the donor egg program at Long Island IVF and a board certified diplomat in clinical social work. She graduated from the New York University School of Social Work. She received training in psychoanalytic treatment of children, adolescents and adults at the Institute for Modern Psychoanalysis in New York. As a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Academy of Certified Social Workers and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Ms. Zigelman lectures for infertility networks, at colleges, and the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, as well as continuing her private practice. While she specializes in infertility and selective mutism, her background includes working with in-patient acute and chronic psychiatric care, mental retardation, and Holocaust victims.

I have worked with Long Island IVF since 1993 and have been privileged to be part of the Donor Egg Team since it's inception in 1996. It continues to be a great honor for me to work with such stellar professionals with this cutting edge, miraculous technology.

Daniel Kenigsberg, MD

Dr. Daniel Kenigsberg, Co-Director of Long Island IVF is a board certified reproductive endocrinologist who completed his residency in gynecology and obstetrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and his fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Kenigsberg then became the Director of Reproductive Endocrinology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. His studies in ovulation induction and ovarian physiology have won national awards. He left SUNY at Stony Brook in 1988 to co-found Long Island IVF.

Dr. Kenigsberg has also published a book, The Baby Solution, a step by step guide to overcoming infertility.

We live in an age when we are approaching almost limitless possibilities in the treatment of medical disorders. Infertility is one such condition. There is an overwhelming drive to reproduce and form families. Over the past three decades, remarkable developments in medical, surgical and laboratory techniques have resulted in the birth of a subspecialty devoted to treatment of infertility. I have been fortunate indeed, to be able to practice that medicine during this exciting era. The entire team of embryologists, nurses and doctors feel a common bond with our patients first, during their treatment and, later on when they have left us as newly started families.

Steven Brenner, MD

Dr. Steven Brenner, Co-Director of Long Island IVF is a highly published board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist who completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York and his fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the New York University. He is currently the Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a position he has held since 1991. Dr. Brenner has received national recognition for his continued dedication to the training of the resident physicians at LIJ. His association with Dr. Kenigsberg has enabled Long Island IVF to maintain its pre-eminent position on Long Island.

My interest in reproductive endocrinology was stimulated during my residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel Medical Center. At that time, tremendous progress was made in technology allowing for therapies in ways that were never possible before. Fortunately, these advances have continued and allow me to participate in a field that remains innovative.

Reproductive endocrinology is a challenging, meaningful and rewarding subspecialty. I regard it as a true privilege to treat patients who suffer from problems with infertility. The rewards, when successful, extend not only to my patients but to their own families who will now be grandparents, aunts and uncles. The impact that I have as a physician not only on all of these individuals, but all of those people who are effected by a child in his or her own future, represents a reward that is indescribable.