As a recognized expert in the field of reproductive endocrinology, I am frequently asked to provide insight into topics that involve infertility or egg freezing. I have also actively participated in research in the fertility field and am respected for those efforts.
Articles
- CNBC (March 2024) “Too few college-educated men’: A look at why many women undergo egg freezing, and the cost associated with it.
- New York Times (Dec 2022) Seven Women on Egg Freezing: Hope, Regret, Uncertainty.
- People.com (November 2021) Inside Couple’s Shocking IVF Embryo Swap That Gave Them Another Family’s Baby: What Went Wrong?
- The New Yorker (May 2021) The Promises and Perils of the New Fertility Entrepreneurs.
- Best of ASRM & ESHRE (April 2021): Egg Freezing: Emancipatory or Exploitative
- Newsbreak.com. 92nd Street Y Summit (June 2021): Advancements in Infertility; Pre-Pregnancy Health
- MedicineNet (May 2021) U.S. Birth Rates Continue to Fall
- Health Day (January 2020) Allow Dead Men to Be Sperm Donors, Medical Ethicists Say
- The Guardian(January 2018) Fertility and Canapés: Why Egg Freezing Parties are so Hot on Wall Street
- Buzzfeed News: Follow This(October 2018) This Women is Locked in a Legal Battle with her Ex-Husband
- California Catholic Daily (August 2016) New Legislative Fight Over Human Eggs
- Buzzfeed News(July 2016)Scientists are Fighting Over Whether Egg Doors Should be Paid
- Slow – Another Time(March 2015)Why Egg Freezing is an Impossible Choice
- Wall Street Journal Live(June 2013): Women Over 30? Time to Talk Baby, Doctors Say
- HuffPost Live(May 2013): Freeze Your Eggs!
- The Atlantic (May 2013): There’s More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs
- The Atlantic(November 2012): It’s Not Too Early to Talk About Freezing Your Eggs
- ObGynNews.com(June 2012): Fertility Preservation No Longer Experimental for Cancer Patients
- Forbes.com(April 2012): Should Women Freeze Ovarian Tissue to Have Babies Later in Life?
- Oprah.com(February 2012): Fertility on Ice: The New Technology That Helps Modern Women Buy Time
- Newsweek.com(January 2012): The Vitrification Fertility Option
- Nature.com (August 2011): Growth of Egg Freezing Blurs ‘Experimental’ Label
- Forbes.com (June 2011): Getting Pregnant: Top 10 Fertility Myths and Facts
- CNBC(May 2011): How to Navigate the Commerce of Conception
- CBS New York (May 2011): Surrogate Delivers Baby For Sister Diagnosed With Cervical Cancer
- Reuters (April 2011): Frozen Donor Eggs May Work As Well As Fresh
- Jweekly.com(March 2011): The ‘Miracle Baby’: Marin Woman Acts as Surrogate to Give Her Sister the Greatest Gift
- Women’s Health Magazine (February 2011): Your Eggs: Buy Sell Freeze?
- MyLifetime.com(December 2010): Egg Harvesting – Is it the answer to getting pregnant past your prime?
- Bloomberg News/Bloomberg.com(October 2010): Rise of In Vitro Offspring Ignites Question of Rightful Heirs
- Reuters(July 2010): Article Fresh or Frozen Might Not Matter for Donated Eggs
- AOL Health(June 2010): IVF Worked for Them
- iVillage Health (April 2010): More Women Are Waiting to Have Kids
- Chicago Tribune(April 2010): Buying Time on the Biological Clock
- Slate.com(March 2010): Is Egg Freezing Unfairly Marginalized? Why the Experimental Label Should be Removed from the Procedure
- NYU Physician (Fall 2009): Frozen in Time: Women Can Now Preserve their Fertility by Freezing their Eggs.
- Newsweek Article and Book (May 2009): Article Why I Froze My Eggs & Book In Her Own Sweet Time
- Elle Magazine (January 2008): Quoted in the article Neurotica, Baby Me
- New York Magazine (October 2005): Stop Time
Television Appearances
- Netflix – Follow This (October 2018) Part 2 (Episode 5) Whose Embryos?
- Katie Couric Show (February 2013): Medical Mistakes: Wrong Embryo Implanted
- The Morning News with Philip Till on CKNW Radio (February 2013): Male Infertility: Causes, Prevention and Solutions
- Good Morning America (September 2011): Women Freezing Eggs at Earlier Ages
- ABC News Nightline (August 2011): Socialite Taylor Stein Speaks Out On Helping Feds Bust Baby-Brokering Ring
- My Fox Five NY News (May 2010): John Travolta and Wife Kelly Preston Expecting Baby: Fertility Expert Weighs In.
- Inside Edition (May 2010): Discussion of Kelly Preston’s pregnancy, pregnancy after the death of a child and fertility after 40.
- Good Morning America on ABC (May 2010): Egg Donation Debateand discussion of Egg Donation as an industry.
- Good Morning America on ABC (November 2009): Women Who Want a Baby Later Are Freezing Their Eggs Now
- Dr. Nancy on NBC (July 2009): Fertility: How Old is Too Old?
- The Today Show on NBC (July 2007): Saving Fertility for Later: Frozen Eggs
Scientific & Academic Events
- CureX: Fertility & The Family (June 2023): The Modern Family: The Science and Ethics of Reproduction and Fertility In a World of Choices.
- Which is Best for the Ovarian Insufficiency Patient Planning Pregnancy: Fresh or Frozen Donor Eggs? (October 2022) ASRM Annual Meeting Guest Speaker. Anaheim, CA.
- 35 Years of Oocyte Cryopreservation (October 2022), University of Bologna Guest Lecture Hotel Savoia Regency, Bologna Italy
- Oocyte Cryopreservation in an Oocyte Donation Program (September, 2022) Bologna, Italy Fertility Symposium.
- International Congress in Cryopreservation of Stem Cells, Reproductive Cells, Tissue and Organs (March 2013): Lecture presentation Impact of Developmental Stage at Cryopreservation and Transfer on Clinical Outcome of Frozen Embryo Cycles
- The international Congress on Oncological Perspectives of Fertility Preservation: Gynecological and Breast Cancer (March 2013): Lecture presentation Stimulation for Egg Retrieval (IVF) in Cancer Patients Before Starting Treatment
- Tecnobios Procreazione Symposium 2012 (November 2012): Lecture presentation Oocyte Cryopreservation and Fertility After Cancer
- Ovarian Club (November 2012): Meeting on The Fertilization Process of the Oocyte and Embryo Development in Relation to Various Clinical Conditions in Prague, Czeck Republic. Lecture titled Oocyte Cryopreservation for Cancer and Deferred Reproduction
- The Continuum of Breast Cancer Risk (October 2012): Treatment & Survivorship in Women Under 40
- Oncofertility Consortium (September 2012): Behind the Cure: Efforts to Ensure That Fertility Remains an Option at the Finish.
- Society for the Study of Reproduction (August 2012): Debate: Can We and Should We Be Freezing Oocytes from Humans?
- Midwest Reproductive Symposium (May 2012): How to Incorporate Oncofertility into your REI Practice and Why lecture, as well as a workshop Oocyte Cryopreservation: An Update.
- Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (April 2012): Plenary lecture titled Oocyte Cryopreservation: Current Application in the USA.
- Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (March 2012): Lecture titled Debulking the Doubt: New Developments in Fertility Preservation for Patients with Gyn Malignanciesin the area of Oncofertility: Preserving Fertility for Patients with Gyn Cancers.
- International Society for Fertility Preservation (December 2011):Lecture “Behind the Cure: Efforts to Ensure that Fertility, through Oocyte Cryopreservation, Remains an Option at the Finish” was one of only eight oral presentations selected from more than 100 submitted abstracts at the 2nd World Congress on Fertility Preservation.
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (October 2011):Lectured on “Cancer & Fertility: Options, Challenges, Strategies” to medical oncologists, oncology nurses, social workers and psychologists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Fertility Preservation for Cancer Patients educational program.
- American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) (October 2011): Part of the panel for a symposium, “Fertility Preservation: Everything and More You Need to Know” and also a presenter at the interactive session, “Oocyte Cryopreservation as an Alternative to Embryo Cryopreservation in the IVF Patient – an Interactive Debate”.
- Serono Symposia International Foundation (September 2011):Served on the International Scientific Committee and gave a lecture entitled “Fertility Preservation: A Reappraisal”.
- Florida Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (August 2011):Speaker at the FSREI’s annual meeting – two presentations: “Scientific, Practical and Ethical Concerns for Clinics Providing Reproductive Options to Cancer Patients” and “Oocyte Cryopreservation and Other Reproductive Options for Cancer Patients”.
- 2nd International Congress on Controversies in Cryoperservation (April 2011): 2nd International Congress on Controversies in Cryopreservation of Stem Cells, Reproductive Cells, Tissue & Organs. Chaired a session on the topic of Oocyte Vitrification, as well as presented a talk entitled, “Social Egg Freezing – What are the Limits?”
- Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (February 2011): Presented a talk,Fertility Preservation Options Prior to Surgery/Chemotherapy,at the 16th Annual Winter Meeting.
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (October 2010): Delivered the key address Fertility Preservation for Women: State of the Scienceto medical oncologists, oncology nurses, social workers and psychologists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Fertility Preservation for Cancer Patients educational program.
- American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Fertility Preservation Special Interest Group (FPSIG) (October 2010): Elected Vice-Chair of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Fertility Preservation Special Interest Group (FPSIG).
- Istituto Superiore di Sanita (October 2010): Served as International Scientific Director for their Born in Iceconference.
- Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society Lecture (November 2009): State of the Art Lecture at the annual meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society.
- Barnard College Panel Discussion on Egg Donation (November 2009): Joined other panelists in discussing “Egg Donation: A Blessing or a Business”. Sponsored by The Hughes Science Pipeline Project (HSPP) and the Office of Career Development.
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine Honorable Mention (October 2009): Awarded members of NYUFC an Honorable Mention for Technical Achievement in Video in the Assisted Reproductive Technologies category for their video titled: Time-lapse Imaging of Murine Embryogenesis: Surprise Observations Providing Insight into Early Reproductive Processes.
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine Honorable Mention (November 2008): Awarded members of NYUFC an Honorable Mention for Technical Achievement in Video in the Assisted Reproductive Technologies category for their video titled: Time-Lapse Microscopy: A High Resolution Method for In Depth Analysis of Tripronuclear (3pn) Zygotes.
- $1 million Research Funding Grant Awarded (September 2008): Along with Dr. Kristin Gunsalus of NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, was awarded $1 million from the National Institutes of Health for their collaborative study, titled “A Systems Biology Approach to Mammalian Early Embryogenesis.”
Honors & Recognitions
- New York Metro Area Top Doctors: Recognized since 2003 as a New York Metro Area Top Doctor for Reproductive Endocrinology in Castle Connolly’s authoritative guide to finding the top primary care and specialty care doctors in the tri-state metropolitan New York area.
- Top Doctors for Cancer: Recognized since 2003 in this national guide by Castle Connolly that contains detailed profiles of more than 2,100 of the nation’s best doctors, across more than 40 medical specialties, involved in the diagnosis and treatment of cancers in adults and children. Castle Connolly: America’s Top Doctors for Cancer
- America’s Top Doctors: Recognized since 2003 in this national guide by Castle Connolly that identifies more than 6,200 of the best doctors throughout the U.S. in more than 60 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 1,700 diseases and medical conditions. These outstanding doctors represent the top 1% in the nation. Castle Connolly: America’s Top Doctors
- NYU Langone Medical Center Dean’s Honors Day (October 2010): Honored for promotion to Professor in September 2009.
- American Fertility Association’s Family Building Award (November 2007): Received the Family Building Award at the 2007 Kokopelli Ball