Alan Hersh DeCherney, M.D., is currently Head of the Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology/Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health. He was the Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA from 1996 to 2006 and Chair of the Department of OBGYN from ‘96 to ‘02. He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Past President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine; Past President of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, the Society of Reproductive Surgeons, and the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology. He is a Member of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society and a Past President of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation.