Norbert Gleicher, MD, FACOG, FACS, is an infertility specialist with decades of clinical experience, widely considered one of the original IVF pioneers in the country who – among many other firsts- published the first vaginal egg retrieval under ultrasound control in the world, which changed IVF practice worldwide. He was also for 20 years the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer, two years later renamed the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics (JARG). He is also worldwide recognized as a leading reproductive immunologist, and, indeed, was the first Vice-President of the American Society for Reproductive Immunology and the founding Editor-in-Chief of its journal, The American Journal of Reproductive Immunology (AJRM).

He currently practices at The Center for Human Reproduction (CHR) on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

Dr. Gleicher grew up in Vienna, Austria, where he started his medical studies at the Medical University of Vienna - and currently holds an academic appointment as Professor (Adjunct) and completed his studies at Tel Aviv University Medical School in Israel. After a year of rotating internship in Tel-Aviv, he moved to New York City for a residency in obstetrics and gynecology, and a fellowship in reproductive immunology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Still a chief resident, he organized an international congress on reproductive immunology at Mount Sinai that led to the formation of the American Society of Reproductive Immunology. Upon graduation for residency, he was awarded the institution’s highly prestigious Dr. Solomon Silver Award in Clinical Medicine, “awarded annually to that younger member of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical center staff who best exemplifies the ability to apply the advances in research to the practice of clinical medicine,” – unique ability Dr. Gleicher has maintained throughout his career.

Immediately upon graduation from residency, Dr. Gleicher was appointed to the medical school faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine as an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and division director of the Division of Reproductive Immunology. Two years later, he moved to Chicago as Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mount Sinai Hospital and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Immunology/Microbiology at Rush Medical College, where he established the first IVF program in Chicago and the Midwest. He held these academic positions until his resignation for 10 years, at which point he started focusing on the Center for Human Reproduction, which he founded had founded in Chicago in 1981.

Since 1990, Dr. Gleicher has held a variety of academic professorial appointments at Chicago Medical School, New York University School of Medicine, and Yale University School of Medicine. He wasawarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1991. Since 1999, he is President, Medical and Laboratory Director, as well as Chief Scientist at the Center for Human Reproduction in NYC and President of the not-for-profit Foundation for Reproductive Medicine. He is a Visiting Research Scientist at Rockefeller University in NYC and – as noted above – a Visiting Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, in Austria.

Dr. Gleicher has published close to 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as hundreds of abstracts, and book chapters. He currently also still serves on the editorial boards of several medical journals. He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and, among several more memberships, a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Society for Assisted Reproduction (SART), the Endocrine Society, and the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). In 2009 Dr. Gleicher was given the honor by the British Fertility Society to give the bi-annual Patrick Steptoe Memorial Lecture, an honor extended to pioneers in the IVF field.

Dr. Gleicher speaks English, German, Hebrew, and Polish.