Richard H. Reindollar, M.D., and Marlene B. Goldman, Sc.D.

We are graced with two guest editors, Dr. Richard Reindollar and Dr. Marlene Goldman, who together provide a range of scientific and clinical expertise as broad as the field of assisted reproduction that they address in this issue. These two were well-established senior investigators when they first teamed up together at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and they have now continued their mutual tenure at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. I think you will see in this issue that their collaboration as editors has been as insightful and productive as their research collaboration.

Richard H. Reindollar is professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He received his medical degree from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania, and a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and genetics at the Medical College of Georgia. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and medical genetics. Dr. Reindollar supervised a molecular laboratory for more than 20 years that studied the molecular basis of reproductive disorders.

He is the principal investigator of two large infertility clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The FASTT Trial, Conventional Infertility Therapy versus Fast Track to IVF, analyzed two different infertility treatment paradigms for couples with the female partner <40 years of age. The FORT-T Trial, Optimal Infertility Therapy RCT: Women 40 and Older, evaluated treatment paradigms for couples with the female partner 38 to 43 years of age. Dr. Reindollar has focused his research, teaching, and clinical practice around the study of reproductive disorders. He has received multiple honors and recognition for his work, including delivering one of the prizewinning oral abstracts (based on the FORT-T trial preliminary data) at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. He is also currently the vice president of the society.

Marlene B. Goldman is a reproductive epidemiologist and director of clinical research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center with a joint appointment in the Department of Community and Family Medicine. She specializes in research and teaching related to women's reproductive health. Her research program includes randomized clinical trials evaluating optimal infertility treatment for younger and older women seeking to conceive and prospective cohort studies investigating the role of preconception nutrition and oxidative stress on implantation and early pregnancy loss. She is senior editor of Women and Health, a comprehensive reference textbook for researchers, teaching faculty, and clinicians now in its second edition. The book addresses the role of gender in understanding disease occurrence, diagnosis, treatment, and health care.

Dr. Goldman's career spans more than 25 years and includes extensive experience in research design, methodology, and analysis. As director of clinical research since 2006, she supervises faculty and resident research in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology, and gynecologic oncology.

Dr. Goldman completed graduate and postgraduate study in epidemiology at Harvard University's School of Public Health where she also served on the faculty for more than a decade. Before joining Dartmouth, she was an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. While at Harvard, Dr. Goldman developed a research and teaching program in reproductive epidemiology and a master's of public health concentration in women's health, served as academic advisor to 30 graduate and professional students, and was a faculty adviser on training grants in cancer epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, and environmental statistics. At Dartmouth she has served as scientific advisor for 40 resident research projects.

Dr. Goldman is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, an associate editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, a chartered member of the NIH IRAP study section, and an investigator in the cancer epidemiology and chemoprevention research program at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center.