SHERMAN SILBER, M.D.
World-renowned male infertility expert and fertility pioneer
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.
Dr. Silber has several firsts to his credit: He performed 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 in 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 consumer books, and more than 200 scientific papers on human infertility and reproduction. His most recent book, "How to Get Pregnant" (Little, Brown and Company, 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 numerous times, “Good Morning America,” the “Today” show, “The Oprah Show”, on talkshows with Gary Collins, as well as on “ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings” and “Nightline with Ted Koppel.” He has been a consultant for “The Joan Rivers Show” and ABC News. He has been a regular contributor to KMOX, WOR and NPR radio. Dr. Silber 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.
