Fellowship Programs

Reproductive Endocrinology / Infertility

This is a three-year fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology designed to fulfill the requirements for board certification in the subspecialty. Time is equally divided between clinical duties and research experience. The three fellows rotate through clinical, surgical, and research blocks lasting approximately four months each. Clinical activities, Exclusive of ART procedures, elective surgery are performed five days a week. An active IVF program continues to develop, incorporating new reproductive technologies, cryopreservation, embryo manipulation, ICSI, and preimplantation genetic diagnosis.

Research duties include assisting in clinical research programs and development of independent laboratory research projects under the direction of one of the faculty members. Ample time is provided to obtain basic skills in radioimmunoassay, andrology, embryo biology, and other laboratory techniques.

Teaching activities within the division include weekly endocrine/infertility seminars, monthly journal club, and discussion of ovulation induction and surgeries scheduled. Additionally, a departmental grand rounds and morbidity/mortality conference is held every Tuesday morning. The fellows also participate in resident and medical student instruction both within the field of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, and in general obstetrics and gynecology.

Fellows

Pravin T. Goud, M.D.
Medical School: College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bombay, India – 1989
Residency: King Edward Memorial Hospital, Bombay, India – 1990
Post Graduate: University of Ghent, Belgium
Ph.D. in Reproductive Biology/Medicine – 1999
Residency: Wayne State University/Hutzel Hospital – 2006
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellow: 2006 - 2008

Awoniyi O. Awonuga, M.D.
Medical School: University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Ibadan – 1979
Residency: Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria – 1987
Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, London, UK – 1989
Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY – 2003
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellow: 2007 - 2010

Mazen E. Abdallah, M.D.
Medical School: American University of Beirut School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon, - 1998
Residency: American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon - 2003
Riverside Regional Medical Center, Newport News, VA - 2004
Wayne State University / Hutzel Hospital - 2007
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellow: 2007 - 2010