Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, United States

Personal Statement

“At the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, we help thousands of people achieve their dream of parenthood each year. Because of our commitment to scientific advancement and clinical excellence, our success rates are among the highest in the world. CRM patients benefit from advanced assisted reproduction procedures and technologies, and we are especially proud to help patients whose previous fertility treatments did not result in pregnancy.

Biography

Zev Rosenwaks, MD, is director and physician-in-chief of the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine (CRM). He is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and an attending obstetrician and gynecologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. In 1994, Dr. Rosenwaks was appointed the Revlon Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Under his leadership, CRM has become one of the world's leading reproductive endocrinology and assisted reproduction programs.

Dr. Rosenwaks is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in assisted reproductive technology (ART). He is former director of the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia, which achieved the first in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancy in the United States. He also established the first egg donation program in the United States and played an important role in developing many modern ovarian stimulation protocols essential to successful IVF. He has also been a major contributor to mild ovarian stimulation protocols designed to avoid ART complications such as ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

Dr. Rosenwaks's current research interests include developing morphological and biological markers of embryo viability to enable single-embryo transfer and avoid multiple pregnancy; optimizing preimplantation genetic testing; and deriving human embryonic stem cell lines.

Dr. Rosenwaks is an overseer on the Weill Cornell Medical College Board of Overseers and a member of the Weill Cornell Faculty Council Steering Committee and Executive Faculty Council. In 2013, he was appointed to the Brooklyn College Board of Trustees.

Dr. Rosenwaks has trained more than 70 fellows and received the Weill Cornell Medical College Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has published more than 380 peer-reviewed articles, 100 invited book chapters, and 6 textbooks. Dr. Rosenwaks is an editor of Fertility and Sterility and an associate editor of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine.

For more than two decades, Dr. Rosenwaks has been named to New York Magazine's New York: Best Doctors in the Northeast and Castle Connolly's America's Top Doctors. He has appeared in major media outlets including World News Tonight, 20/20, Good Morning America, Nightline, Today, NBC Nightly News, The Early Show, Charlie Rose, CNN, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His book A Baby At Last! (Simon & Schuster, 2010), co-authored with Dr. Marc Goldstein, is a guide to fertility and the medical treatment of infertility for anyone hoping to become a parent.

In 2012, Dr. Rosenwaks received the Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor of Weill Cornell Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He is a former president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and served as president of the New York Obstetrical Society in 2013-14. In 2014, he served as president of the International Society for In Vitro Fertilization.