Dmitri Dozortsev, MD, PhD

I was born with an insatiable curiosity about everything and annoyed my parents a great deal by apprising them with my ideas about the origin of life on earth without any regard for making them late to work. In this sense, I have not changed much and still annoy people regularly, trying to share my eureka moment, when they are absorbed into something much more important on Netflix or Hulu.   

My path into translational fertility started while attending  Pavlov Medical School in my beloved city of St.Petersburg, where I was born. During preclinical studies, I developed a strong interest in embryonic cell differentiation and after graduating as a physician, without practicing medicine for a single day, I joined the Department of Mammalian Embryology at the  Institute of Experimental Medicine as a research fellow. I continued my training in experimental embryology at the Reproductive Genetics Institute (RGI) in Chicago, which became my second home.  RGI was headed by a preimplantation genetics pioneer Dr. Verlinsky and there I was very fortunate to work under the direct supervision of one of the most remarkable experts in the early embryonic development of mammals – Dr. Dyban. Then I joined a Ph.D. program at the Department of OB-GYN, the University of Ghent in Belgium, under the supervision of a world-renowned reproductive medicine expert Dr. Dhont and graduated Summa Cum Laude as a Doctor of Biomedicine. After my graduation, I was recruited by Dr. Michael Diamond to become a faculty at the Department of OBGYN, Wayne State University in Detroit where I befriended Dr. Michael Allon who started his private IVF clinic in Houston and invited me to join.

Throughout my professional life, I have made contributions to several areas of translational fertility, from discovering the mechanism of ICSI to redefining the ovulation paradigm. I am certified as a High Complexity Clinical Laboratory Director in embryology and andrology and also as a Reproductive Embryologist.

I live in Houston with my better half, love of my life, Gwen and our children. Gwen is my first reader and helped to clarify the ideas and make the text more reader-friendly.