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Robert J. Stillman
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Dr. Stillman is a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and is Medical Director of Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Centers, which he joined in April, 1997. Until then, he was a tenured Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Fertility and IVF Programs at the George Washington having joined the faculty in 1979. He now serves as a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Dr. Stillman was educated at Boston University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude, 1969), Georgetown University (M.D., 1973; AOA Medical Honor Society), Duke University (Residency, Obstetrics and Gynecology 1973-77, Administrative Chief Resident 1976-77) and Harvard University (Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, 1977-79). He has held faculty and research positions at Harvard University, Children’s Hospital National Medical Center and at the National Institutes of Health. He was certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1979 (with voluntary rectification in 1991) and by the Board’s Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in 1981. He served as an examiner for the ABOG oral certifying examinations in Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1989 – 1998 and was one of the 12 National Examiners for oral subspecialty Board exams in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. While at G.W., Dr. Stillman was Director of 1 of 46 nationally ABOG certified Fellowship training programs in the reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

Dr. Stillman has been prominent both nationally and internationally in clinical infertility and academic reproductive endocrinology, having authored numerous scientific publications and being awarded competitive research grants. He was elected by his peers as the top doctor in the National Capital Area for infertility in the latest Washingtonian Magazine poll and elected to Top Doctors in America for 1994-97 and Who’s Who in America. He was elected as one of the 16 top infertility doctors nationwide by his peers in the 1996 American Health Magazine poll , selected by Good Housekeeping Magazine in 1997 as one of the nation’s Best Doctors for Women and Best Doctors 2005-6. He is a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists, the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, the Society of Reproductive Surgeons, among others, and is a past President of the Washington Gynecological Society. He is now on his 3rd assignment on the Editorial Board of Fertility and Sterility and serves as an ad hoc editor on numerous medical journals.

Dr. Stillman has served on the committees of numerous local, national and international societies including the Board of Directors of RESOLVE for the Washington, and Medical Advisory Boards of national Resolve and the American Fertility Association. For the latter, he is a recipient of the national Family Building Award in 2006 and the first person also awarded the AFA Advocacy Award. Dr. Stillman has been an invited lecturer for numerous physician post-graduate training courses and a Visiting Professor at many Universities nationally and internationally. He also was elected to and served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and Chairman of its Publications Committee.

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