SHERMAN SILBER, M.D.
Dr. Sherman Silber is a world renowned Male Infertility expert.
Dr. Sherman Silber is a renowned pioneer in male infertility, reproductive microsurgeries and ovarian tissue transfer. He is considered to be one of the world's leading authorities on IVF, sperm retrieval, ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection), vasectomy reversal, and tubal ligation reversal.
He has contributed major scientific breakthroughs to our understanding of quantitative sperm production, epididymal physiology, and the successful treatment of the severest forms of male and female sterility.
He has several firsts to his credit - the world's first microsurgical vasectomy reversal, the world’s first testicle transplant and the world's first ovary transplant. He developed, along with his colleagues at Brussels, the TESE-ICSI technique for retrieving a few sperms from hopelessly sterile men and achieving normal pregnancies with them. Dr. Zhang and Dr. Silber have worked to treat the most difficult IVF cases from all over the world.
Dr. Silber is the author of three medical textbooks, four best-selling books for the layman, and more than 200 scientific papers on human infertility and reproduction. His most recent book, "How to Get Pregnant," published by Little, Brown and Company in 2005, is a completely revised and updated edition in his classic series of "How to Get Pregnant" books, which have been major bestsellers in the United States. He has appeared on the Donahue Show eight times since 1980, Good Morning America, the Today Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Gary Collins, Peter Jennings’ ABC Nightly News, and Ted Koppel’s Nightline. He has been a consultant numerous times on the Joan Rivers Show and ABC News and has been a regular contributor to KMOX, WOR, and NPR radio. He was one of four physicians picked to be on the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment study to help infertile couples in the United States.
Dr. Silber attended medical school at the University of Michigan and went on to pursue post-graduate training first at Stanford University, and then at the University of Michigan. From 1967 to 1969, he provided medical care via the U.S. Public Health Service to Eskimos, Indians, and Aleuts. Later he taught at the University of Melbourne Medical School in Australia and at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. He is the director of the St. Louis Fertility Center and a partner and practicing physician at New Hope Fertility Center in New York City. In addition, he is an active member of the Belgian IVF team that pioneered the ICSI procedure and a professor and scientific collaborator at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
