Silber, Sherman

Sherman J. Silber, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Sherman Silber, a pioneer in microsurgery and infertility, is a leading authority on male infertility, microsurgery, sperm retrieval, ICSI, vasectomy reversal, tubal ligation reversal, egg and embryo freezing, testis and ovarian transplantation. He has contributed to our understanding of quantitative sperm production, and the genetics of male infertility and the Y chromosome. He reported the first successful microsurgical vasectomy reversals and the first successful human testicle transplants. He developed, along with his Brussels colleagues, the TESE-ICSI technique which allowed hopelessly sterile men to have children. He is currently working on ovary and egg banking to preserve fertility, as well as on the genomic etiologies of low sperm count, and premature ovarian failure. He directs The Infertility Center of St. Louis, that specializes in couples with the most severe infertility problems.

Dr. Silber's patients come from every state in the U.S.A., Europe, South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. His patients include doctors, teachers, rock stars, secretaries, politicians, astronauts, movie stars, scientists, truck drivers, lawyers, migrant fruit pickers, CEO's, princes and kings.

He is the author of three medical textbooks, and six best-selling books for the layman. His most recent book, "How to Get Pregnant," published by Little, Brown and Company in 2007, is a completely revised and updated edition of his classic series of "How to Get Pregnant" books, which have been major bestsellers in the United States. Dr. Silber's books have been published in English, Spanish, German, and Russian. He has published over 250 scientific papers, in high impact journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Nature Genetics, Human Reproduction, Human Reproduction Update, Fertility and Sterility, etc. He has appeared on the Donahue Show eight times, Good Morning America five times, the Today show five times, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Gary Collins, Peter Jennings ABC Nightly News, Ted Koppel Nightline, the Joan Rivers Show, ABC News, CNN, and has been a regular contributor many times on KMOX, WOR, and NPR radio.

Dr. Silber went to medical school at the University of Michigan, did post-graduate training at Stanford University, and then again at the University of Michigan. From 1967 to 1969, he provided medical care via the U.S. Public Health Service to Eskimos, Indians, and Aleuts. Then he taught at the University of Melbourne Medical School in Australia, and later at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. He is a scientific collaborator at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the University of Amsterdam, and at the Kato Clinic in Tokyo. His major clinical medical practice is at the Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.