Not everyone needs egg freezing, surrogacy laws in NY and more - February 2019 CHR VOICE Digest
With hopefully the last arctic vortex behind us, an early spring would be very welcome this year. CHR’s Medical Director and Chief Scientist, Norbert Gleicher, MD, will, indeed, do even better than that since, on a 10-day long lecture tour of Australia, he will definitely not suffer from cold weather between Melbourne to Sydney, Brisbane and even Perth on the West coast. Truth be told, he will spend a good third of the trip in the air; but when on the ground, he will experience summer, and apparently a very hot one in Australia this year.
With Vitaly A. Kushnir, MD, having left the employment of CHR after six years, we are pleased to announce that a longtime friend and colleague of CHR, Pasquale Patrizio, MD, MS, Professor and Director of the IVF Program at Yale University in New Haven, CT, has agreed to consult at CHR on a part-time basis. Suffice it to say that Dr. Patrizio does not require much introduction: He is one of the country’s most prominent and widely published academic reproductive endocrinologists and fertility experts, indeed one of the very few equally well versed in female and male infertility. He is also one of the most in-demand speakers on the lecture circuit in the field. Having closely collaborated with Dr. Gleicher and other CHR investigators on a number of research projects over the years, he has been a regular visitor to CHR for quite some time and is very familiar with CHR’s clinical and research programs. He recently also joined CHR’s research collaboration with the Brivanlou Laboratory at Rockefeller University. We, therefore, are now delighted to welcome him here at CHR in an even closer relationship with the CHR family of clinicians and scientists.
As lead article in this issue of the _VOICE _we chose what is widely called social (non-medical) egg freezing. Though this subject over the last few years has repeatedly attracted attention and was, therefore, comprehensively addressed in these pages, we feel that a turning point has recently been reached that goes into the absurd, even beyond previously decried “egg freezing parties," and requires a more detailed and timely review of the subject. We also will in this issue address the special legal status, or better “non-status,” of surrogacy in New York State, which is widely misunderstood, and finally, may change according to press reports. And then there is also considerable news on various science fronts to report on. We are sure you will not be bored.
In this issue of the VOICE, we cover:
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Read the February 2019 CHR VOICE in PDF.
Norbert Gleicher, MD, FACOG, FACS
Norbert Gleicher, MD, leads CHR’s clinical and research efforts as Medical Director and Chief Scientist. A world-renowned specialist in reproductive endocrinology, Dr. Gleicher has published hundreds of peer-reviewed papers and lectured globally while keeping an active clinical career focused on ovarian aging, immunological issues and other difficult cases of infertility.
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