Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., M.B.E., HCLD

 

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This issue of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine is devoted to a very timely topic: fertility preservation. I am pleased that Dr. Pasquale Patrizio agreed to serve as guest editor. I am also pleased about the high quality of the authors and their articles. I am sure readers will refer to this issue often.

Dr. Patrizio is a board-certified specialist in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He is a professor of obstetrics/gynecology and the medical director of the Yale Fertility Center.

Dr. Patrizio received his medical degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Napoli, Italy, and completed two residencies, obstetrics and gynecology (Napoli) and andrology (Pisa). After moving to the United States, he completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, Irvine, and a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the same university. In August 2003 he completed a master's degree in bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and became certified as a high-complexity clinical laboratory director. He joined the Yale University faculty in January 2004 as professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Yale Fertility Center.

Our guest editor has lectured throughout the world on the topics of in vitro fertilization (IVF), male infertility, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), garnering several awards. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Journal of Andrology. Dr. Patrizio serves as a reviewer for many scientific journals, including Lancet, Human Reproduction, Fertility and Sterility, Reproductive Biomedicine, and as an ad hoc reviewer for JAMA and for National Institute of Health grants.

Dr. Patrizio has authored a prominent assisted reproductive technologies textbook and has 292 scientific papers, book chapters, and abstracts including 94 peer-review publications, 41 as first author, and 26 as senior author, to his credit. Thirty-eight are in high-impact clinical journals. His main areas of interest include IVF, ICSI, epididymal and testicular sperm retrieval and freezing, the genetics of female and male infertility, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, oocyte and embryo freezing, oocyte donation and surrogacy, fertility preservation for cancer patients, and development competence of oocytes and embryos.