Marc Goldstein, M.D., and Zev Rosenwaks, M.D.

The editorial board decided to devote a single issue to an update of male infertility. Dr. Marc Goldstein and Dr. Zev Rosenwaks (the latter a member of the editorial board of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine) have agreed to serve as guest editors for this issue of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, entitled “Male Infertility in the Era of ART: Why Treat; How to Treat.” I hope the readers enjoy this issue as I did.

Marc Goldstein, M.D., D.Sc. (hon), F.A.C.S., is The Matthew P. Hardy Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine and professor of urology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University; surgeon in chief, Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery; executive director, Men's Service Center of the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and director of the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine and Microsurgery at the New York Weill Cornell University Medical Center. He is senior scientist with the Population Council's Center for Biomedical Research, located on the campus of Rockefeller University.

Dr. Goldstein is a board-certified urologic surgeon and member of a dozen national and international medical societies dealing with male infertility and reproduction. He is past president of the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the recipient of the 1997 Master Teacher in Urology Award and the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater. He has been honored by RESOLVE and the American Infertility Association for his “Outstanding Dedication and Commitment to Family Building.” He received the 2002 John Kingsley Lattimer Award in Urology from the Kidney and Urology Foundation of America and is the recipient of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award of The American Fertility Association. He received an honorary Doctor of Science in 2008 from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.

Dr. Goldstein is internationally renowned for his pioneering work in vasectomy reversals and microsurgical repair of varicoceles and blockages. He developed a microsurgical technique of varicocelectomy in 1984, and he was the first American surgeon to be trained in, and to perform, the Chinese method of no-scalpel vasectomy.

Dr. Goldstein has authored or co-authored more than 230 journal articles and book chapters. He is the author of Surgery of Male Infertility (1995), the first textbook on the subject, and editor of the Atlas of the Urologic Clinics of North America: Surgery for Male Infertility (1999) and the Atlas of Clinical Urology: Infertility Section (1999). He is co-author of The Couple's Guide to Fertility (Broadway/Random House 2001, 3rd edition), Vasectomy Book and Reproductive Medicine Secrets (Hanley & Belfus, 2004), and the upcoming Male Infertility. He is on the editorial boards of the medical journals Microsurgery and Journal of Andrology. He has also been featured in interviews by numerous major media outlets including NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, ABC's Eyewitness News, Newsweek, and the New York Times.

A summa cum laude graduate of the College of Medicine, State University of New York–Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Goldstein worked as a resident in general surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. After 3 years overseas in the U.S. Air Force, attaining the rank of major and flying in F4 Phantom aircraft as a flight surgeon, Dr. Goldstein was trained in urology at Downstate Medical Center. He continued his postgraduate training in reproductive physiology at the Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research, located on the campus of Rockefeller University, and at the Rockefeller University Hospital.

Dr. Goldstein is a long distance runner and triathlete who races regularly and has completed 20 New York City Marathons.

Zev Rosenwaks, M.D., is the director and physician in chief of The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive medicine and attending obstetrician-gynecologist at Weill Cornell Medical College. In 1994, Dr. Rosenwaks was named the Revlon Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Since 2000, Dr. Rosenwaks has been the co-director of the Institute for Reproductive Medicine.

Dr. Rosenwaks is internationally renowned for his pioneering work in assisted reproduction. He was the director of the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia, the unit that achieved the first IVF pregnancy in the United States. He also developed the first egg donation program in the United States. Dr. Rosenwaks has been listed in New York Magazine's Best Doctors in New York, the Northeast, as well as in Castle Connolly's guide to America's Top Doctors. Dr. Rosenwaks has also been featured in interviews by many major media outlets including ABC's World News Tonight, 20/20, Good Morning America, Nightline, NBC's Today Show, NBC's Nightly News, CBS's Morning Show, the Charlie Rose Show, CNN, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Time magazine.

Dr. Rosenwaks currently serves as an overseer on the Weill Cornell Medical College Board of Overseers and sits on both the Faculty Steering Council and the Executive Faculty Council and was recently appointed to serve as a committee member for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Rosenwaks has trained more than 60 fellows and was recently awarded the Weill Cornell Medical College Award for Teaching Excellence.

Dr. Rosenwaks is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility and is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and was past president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. Currently, Dr. Rosenwaks serves as assistant secretary for the Council of the New York Obstetrical Society.

Dr. Rosenwaks has published more than 320 peer-reviewed articles, 100 invited book chapters, and 6 textbooks. He is the co-author of the textbook Reproductive Endocrinology, Surgery and Technology (Lippincott-Raven, 1996) as well as Reproductive Medicine Secrets (Hanley and Belfus, 2004). He has been associate editor of the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics and Seminars in Reproductive Medicine.