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Dan C. Martin is Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Divisional Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Divisional Director Reproductive Endocrinology, Fellowship Director for an AAGL / ASRM Minimally invasive Surgery Fellowship and Faculty Senator, University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a past divisional director in medical education at Johns Hopkins, Past-President of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists and Past-President of the Gynecologic Surgery Society. He has more than 375 publications focused on pelvic surgery for infertility and endometriosis.
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Michael Kamrava earned a Bachelor of Science in physiology with high honors from University of Illinois, USA and graduated from Case Western Reserve Medical School in 1976 with honors in endocrinology. Following a residency in OB/GYN, I finished a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA. I served as clinical instructor in OB/GYN at UCLA. I was a principal investigator on the use of subcutaneous pulsatile GnRH in ovulation induction. I have been on the editorial staff of several scientific journals and have published numerous articles and book chapters and have been the editor of a book entiltled “Ectopic Pregnancyâ€. I have been an invited speaker at several national and international talks and conferences and have participated in conducting endoscopic workshops. I have been awarded the “Golden Telescope†for introducing the SEED technique for embryo implantation with visually directed endoscopic control of embryo implantation and subsequently have innovated the HEED embryo transfer for the early stage embryo transfers. In private practice of nearly 30 years, I have helped thousands of patients in their struggle with infertility to achieve their dreams of parenthood come true.
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Nikolaos Zacharias, MD, FACOG, is a native of Greece; he earned his medical diploma with excellence from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1995) reciting the Hippocratic Oath as a top graduate in his class. Dr. Zacharias received numerous Hellenic scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate education (1989-2002). He trained in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine, (1998-2002), elected chief resident in 2001. He received the Council of Resident Education in Obstetrics & Gynecology Outstanding Academic Achievement Award four consecutive years (1999-2002) for scoring at the top 3% of his U.S. peers at these annual examinations. His passion for prenatal sonography and profound interest in pregnancy complications led him to a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, Texas (2002-2005), where he received the UTMB Hospital Academic Fellowship Award (2002-2005) and enrolled in a Masters in Medical Science post-graduate program on clinical research design (2003-2005, all courses passed with excellence, thesis defense pending). Dr. Zacharias returned to Baylor as assistant professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, in the Maternal Fetal Medicine Division (2005 - 2013). He served as medical director of the Harris Health System Prenatal Ultrasound Screening Program (2005 - 2012) and as founding medical director of the Ben Taub Maternal Fetal Medicine Prenatal Ultrasound Unit (2008 - 2012), having supervised over 30,000 prenatal sonograms. Dr. Zacharias has been an active member of the Texas Children’s Fetal Center (2006-2013), teaching faculty at Ben Taub General (2005 - 2013) and Texas Children’s Hospital (2008 - 2013). He is board-certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology (2008) and Maternal Fetal Medicine (2011). Dr. Zacharias received Baylor's medical student faculty teaching award (2011) and was elected to America's Top Obstetricians & Gynecologists (2012). He co-directed the maternal-fetal medicine elective clerkship at Baylor College of Medicine with Dr. Robert Carpenter (2012-2013). Dr. Zacharias is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (2010) and a regular member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (2012). On August 2013 Dr. Zacharias became the inaugural Medical Director of Prenatal Ultrasound and Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Center for Medical Genetics - collaborating with Geneticist Dr. Katherine Thompson. His focus will be on consultative perinatology and prenatal sonography with genetic testing, serving his beloved Southeast Texas population
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