Norbert Gleicher

Dr. Norbert Gleicher, MD, FACOG, FACS, is the Chief Scientist and Medical Director at the Center for Human Reproduction in New York City.

Dr. Gleicher grew up in Vienna, Austria, where he initiated his medical studies at the Medical University of Vienna. He completed his studies at Tel Aviv University Medical School in Israel, after which he completed a year of rotating internship. Then, he moved to New York City for a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and a fellowship in reproductive immunology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. As Chief Resident, he was awarded the Dr. Solomon Silver Award in Clinical Medicine, given 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.”

Upon graduation, 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. He held these positions for 10 years until his resignation in 1990, when he started to concentrate on the development of the Center for Human Reproduction (CHR), which he had originally founded in 1981.

Since 1990, Dr. Gleicher has held a variety of academic professorial appointments at Chicago Medical School and, after his move back to New York City, at New York University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine. Since 1999, he has served as President, Medical Director, and Chief Scientist of CHR-New York. Currently, he also serves as the President of the not-for-profit Foundation for Reproductive Medicine and holds appointments as Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University and Professor (Adj.) at the Medical University of Vienna.

Dr. Gleicher has published over 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers, hundreds of abstracts, and multiple book chapters about reproductive medicine, infertility, reproductive endocrinology, and immunology. For over 20 years, he served as founding Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology and the founding Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer, later renamed the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, now an official organ of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). In addition, he served and is serving as editor and/or editorial board member on many other medical journals and he has edited several major textbooks.

In 1991, he was awarded the prestigious Austrian Decoration for Science and Art for his scientific achievements. In 2009, Dr. Gleicher was invited to give the bi-annual Patrick Steptoe Memorial Lecture to the British Fertility Society, in honor of his contributions to advancements in the in vitro fertilization field. He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and, in addition to many other societies and professional organizations, a member of the ASRM and the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).