Advisory Board

In this section:

Helen Adrienne, LCSW, BCD
Helen Adrienne’s heart has been in private practice since 1979. Although a general therapist, she has specialized in the emotional component of gynecologic and reproductive care, especially Infertility. Helen is a world class listener with a first class heart. She is located in New York City.

Gary S. Berger, M.D.
Reproductive Surgeon, Director, Chapel Hill Fertility Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics, University of North Carolina Coauthor, The Couples Guide to Fertility

Mike Berkley, LAc., DA (RI)
Dr. Berkley specializes in Complementary Medicine and is located in New York City

Mark Bush, M.D.
Dr. Bush has extensive experience in all aspects of Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies. He served with distinction as the Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility Division Director at two academic institutions during the six years following the completion of his fellowship.

Jacques Cohen, Ph.D.
Dr. Cohen continues as a leader in his field, having published more than 200 scientific papers. He is a frequent lecturer, both nationally and internationally, on his team's work.

Carolyn Coulam, M.D.
A reproductive endocrinologist and pioneer in the field of reproductive immunology and recurrent pregnancy loss.

Owen K. Davis, M.D.
Dr. Davis has hundreds of articles on a range of topics in reproductive medicine for leading medical journals, and has presented several dozen research abstracts at medical meetings in the U.S. and abroad. He has also prepared more numerous chapters for medical text books.

Eric Daiter, M.D.
Dr. Daiter entered private practice in 1994, where he joined a successful referral based infertility practice and further developed his clinical skills. Dr. Daiter emphasizes the basic principles of infertility patient care, including the importance of highly personalized, cost considerate, state of the art, one on one care for his patients.

Yakov Epstein, Ph.D.
Dr. Epstein is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in stress reduction and marital therapy.

John D. Gordon, M.D.
Dr. Gordon volunteers to answer patient questions here on INCIID online. Not only is he popular with consumers but he also authored a popular handbook written for clinicians entitled Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility which has sold over 50,000 copies worldwide.

Marc Goldstein, M.D.
Dr. Goldstein, dirctor, founded the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine in 1982. It is world renown and the first such center in the US devoted exclusively to male infertility treatment.

Patricia Irwin Johnston, M.S.
Pat has been a publisher, writer and adoption advocate for almost 30 years. Pat and her husband Dave are the second generation of their family to extend it beyond infertility through the adoption of three children.

Mark Perloe, M.D.
Dr. Perloe has conducted and published research in medical journals including OBGYN and at national conferences. He has a thriving practice in Atlanta

Sandra Pfau-Englund, Attorney
Ms. Pfau Englund received her bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Eastern Michigan University, and her law degree and master of public administration degree with a concentration in nonprofit management from George Washington University. She is a member of the Virginia, District of Columbia and Ohio bars. She specializes in nonprofit law.

Scott J. Roseff, M.D.
Dr. Roseff is an experience reproductive endocrinologist who is known for his compassionate and particular care he takes with his patients. He is located in Wellington, FL

Zev Rosenwaks, M.D.
Throughout his career, Dr. Rosenwaks has been instrumental in developing new fertility-enhancing protocols and the study of advanced recombinant-derived gonadotropins to assist in producing mature, high quality sperm and eggs.

Geoffrey Sher, M.D.
Dr. Geoffrey Sher, founder of SIRM, has been influential in assisting more than 14,000 women have babies following the treatment of infertility in general, and for the births of more than 4,000 IVF babies in specific. He believe in excellent and compassionate care for all patients.

Steven Spandorfer, M.D.
Dr. Spandorfer joined the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility (CRMI) for his Fellowship, which he completed in 1998. He is Junior Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the Endocrine Society.

Samuel Thatcher, M.D. , Ph.D.
Dr. Thatcher is the author of PCOS: The Hidden Epidemic. He began his career in reproductive science in 1973 when studying the detrimental effects of aging on reproduction. This culminated in a Ph.D. in human anatomy/reproductive biology at West Virginia University, where he simultaneously received his M.D. A year of post doctoral research was spent between Edinburgh and Johns Hopkins Universities.

Andrew Vorzimer, Attorney
An attorney specializing in 3rd party reproduction