Faculty
The faculty members of the Global Fertility Academy (GFA) rank among the world’s leading fertility specialists. In addition to their job-related knowledge and skills, they are trained in medical education and critical thinking approaches to curriculum and materials development.
is a board certified specialist in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He is Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Medical Director, Yale Fertility Center and Reproductive Endocrinology. Prof. Patrizio received his MD from the University of Naples, Italy, and completed two residencies, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Naples) and Andrology (Pisa, Italy). After moving to the USA he completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of California. In August 2003 he completed a Master's in Bioethics (MBE) at the University of Pennsylvania and became certified as High Complexity Laboratory Director (HCLD). He joined Yale faculty in January 2004 as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Prof. Patrizio has lectured throughout the world on the topics of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Male Infertility and Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). He is member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Journal of Andrology. He serves as reviewer for many scientific journals including Lancet, Human Reproduction, Fertility and Sterility, Reproductive Biomedicine, and ad hoc reviewer for JAMA and for NIH grants. Prof. Patrizio has authored a prominent Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) textbook and has 324 scientific papers, book chapters and abstracts including 102 peer-review publications.
is the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Prior to coming to Penn in 1994, Dr. Caplan taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University. He was the Associate Director of the Hastings Center from 1984–1987.
Born in Boston, Dr. Caplan did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University, and did his graduate work at Columbia University where he received a Ph.D in the history and philosophy of science in 1979. He is the author or editor of 25 books and over 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy. His most recent book is Smart Mice Not So Smart People (Rowman Littlefield, 2006).
Dr. Caplan has served on a number of national and international committees including Chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses, the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy, the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene Therapy, and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.
is internationally recognized. He has been awarded as an honorary member of the European Society of Gynecological Oncology and Consultant at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, National Health Service, London. He is one of only two physicians ever to hold this honorary position.
His extensive training includes an M.P.H. in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of Illinois School of Public Health; an M.D. with Distinction in Research from the State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn (Downstate Medical Center), and a B.A. magna cum laude, in Philosophy, from the City University of New York, Brooklyn College.
He has authored hundreds of published papers, book chapters, abstracts and meeting presentations. One of his many books is "An Atlas of Gynecologic Oncology" which has sold out two editions and has been commissioned for a 3rd.
He has been invited to present this works all over the world. Recently he was also invited to present at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, FDA and HRSA in Washington D.C.
He is a member of numerous professional organizations and represents ACOG officially as the NY representative to the CMS Carrier Advisory Committee (CAC) and as an ACOG District II Advisory Council Member.
He has received numerous teaching, research and other awards and has been the feature of many media stories around the world.
is a specialist in infertility and reproductive surgery. He is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College at New York -Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Schattman is a leading figure in both fertility preservation and advanced methods of correcting common causes of infertility. He is directing a number of ongoing research studies designed to improve outcomes for women facing the prospect of infertility due to cancer treatments. In particular Dr. Schattman is concentrating on newer stimulation protocols for breast cancer patients, optimizing egg and embryo freezing as well as ovarian tissue freezing and transplantation. He also has extensive experience in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery for blocked fallopian tubes, adhesions or scar tissue, endometriosis and ovarian cysts. He is a pioneer in the use of the robot in surgeries that would normally require an open surgical procedure, including fibroids and reversal of prior tubal ligation.
Dr. Schattman earned a B.S. degree from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York in 1983 and an M.D. degree from State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York in 1987. Dr. Schattman completed his residency at the George Washington University Medical Center in 1991 and went on to Weill Cornell Medical College at New York- Presbyterian Hospital where he finished his fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
is Consultant Paediatric Oncologist and Honorary Reader at the Royal Hospital and University of Edinburgh for Sick Children and Child Life and Health. He has authored and coauthored over 130 peer-reviewed publications and four books.
He has been President of the European Network for Paediatric Hodgkin’s lymphoma since 2007. This is a 14-country collaboration led by Germany, UK and France with a currently open International CRUK funded clinical trial. Furthermore, he was Co-Founder (with Christian Moëll) and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Symposium for Late Complications of Childhood Cancer (ESLCCC). The First conference was held in Lund, Sweden (2007), the Second conference at the RCP Edinburgh, Scotland (2009) bringing together 250 delegates from 27 countries. W. Hamish B. Wallace was chair of the Organising Committee and Speaker.
He has been Lead Clinician of the Children and Teenagers Scottish Cancer Network (CATSCAN) since Nov 2007,, Chair of the UK Paediatric Hodgkin’s lymphoma group (2002 – present) and chair of a new SIGN guideline on the late effects of the treatment of childhood and adolescent cancer and prior to this was Chair of SIGN 76 "survivors of childhood cancer". He has also been amember of the Advisory Board of the British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (BCCSS) since 2008.
His research is currently supported by Research Grants from UK Chief Investigator for CRUK funding studies of the Treatment of paediatric classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
