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Professor
Division Chief, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
Fellowship Program Director
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Biography
Dr. Patrizio is an internationally renowned reproductive medicine specialist Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., M.B.E., ,H.C.L.D., is joining the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine as Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr. Patrizio has made major contributions to the field of reproductive medicine since the 1990s. His discoveries have changed the way reproductive medicine and in vitro fertilization (IVF) are practiced throughout the world. He joins the Miller School after spending the last 18 years at Yale University, directing the Fertility center and IVF program at Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Patrizio, who holds a master’s degree in bioethics (MBE) and is certified as High Complexity
Laboratory Director (HCLD), takes a collaborative approach to patient care and research. He oversees the state-of-the-art Center for Reproductive Health with services including fertility preservation
for cancer patients and for transgender individuals, male fertility, and expansion of third-party
reproduction and LGBTQ services (gamete donation and gestational surrogacy). Dr. Patrizio is one of the few U.S. fertility specialists to see both men and women and works closely with the Miller School’s urologists, oncologists, pediatricians, geneticists and other specialists to provide personalized care to our patients.
In his 25-year career, Dr. Patrizio has produced research accomplishments of extraordinary importance
and innovation spanning basic and clinical reproductive medicine. For example, he discovered that the
congenital absence of the vas deferens in men is a mild form of cystic fibrosis, and he found that some
cases of male infertility are due to deletions on the Y-chromosome. This finding paved the way for
genetic assessments as part of the clinical assessments for infertile men.
Dr. Patrizio co-pioneered the microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA) technique in 1988 to
help infertile males with absence of the vas deferens to become fathers. He also developed whole ovary
cryopreservation via multi-thermal gradient for fertility preservation for young women impacted by
systemic cancers. He also studied new methods for bio-banking gametes, reproductive tissue, and stem
cells. In addition, Dr. Patrizio was co-author of the first guidelines for fertility preservation in cancer on
behalf of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). These accomplishments have earned Dr. Patrizio global recognition as a clinical translational scientist and numerous honors and awards, including the induction as a life fellow member of the International Academy of Human Reproduction, a 36-members-only international group of experts and teachers of reproductive medicine.
He was also co-founder and former president of the International Society for Fertility Preservation (ISFP)
and immediate past chair of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s Fertility Preservation
Group. Dr. Patrizio has published a leading assisted reproductive technologies (ART) atlas textbook, five
additional books, over 90 book chapters and more than 200 peer reviewed original manuscripts. He serves as an associate editor of Reproductive BioMedicine online and the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. -
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