Evaluating Male Infertility - Dr. Paul J. Turek, MD

Male infertility is the primary etiology in at least one third of couples seeking help with infertility, and a co-factor in another two-thirds of infertility cases. Dr. Paul Turek, an internationally recognized leader, speaker, and researcher in the field of Male Infertility and Microsurgery, and Advisor to the ABORM, will discuss the most important, and up-do-date research and diagnostic criteria that guide the optimal male infertility evaluation.

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Bio:

Dr. Turek is Director of The Turek Clinic, a men’s health clinic in San Francisco (www.TheTurekClinic.com). He is a former Professor of Urology, Obstetrics & Gynecology at the UCSF and held the Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair in Urology Education. He is an internationally noted master microsurgeon and men’s reproductive health care specialist.

Dr. Turek attended Yale College, followed by Stanford University Medical School. Following a urology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Turek was fellowship trained at Baylor College of Medicine. His 175 publications include basic and clinical research that focuses on germ and stem cell genetics, and epidemiologic studies of men’s sexual and reproductive health problems. He is on the Advisory Board of the national Men’s Health Care Network and the NIH Reproductive Medicine Network and he is the Editor of the Reproductive Volume of Netter’s Images, 2nd Edition, due out in 2011.

He is President of the American Society of Andrology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Société Internationale d'Urologie and the Royal Society of Medicine (London). He has chaired numerous courses for the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction and the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology. In San Francisco, he recently founded a volunteer medical clinic powered by retired physicians for the working uninsured. His hobbies include vintage cars and longboard surfing.