“Infertile couples from all over the world come to St. Louis, Missouri, to chase their dream, because Dr. Sherman Silber and his team are simply the best there is.” – Discovery Health Channel June 2004 Documentary
Dr. Sherman Silber, a renowned pioneer in microsurgery and infertility, is considered one of the world's leading authorities on IVF, sperm retrieval, ICSI, vasectomy reversal, tubal ligation reversal, egg and embryo freezing, ovary transplantation, and the reproductive biological clock. He has contributed major scientific breakthroughs to our understanding of quantitative sperm production, epididymal physiology, and the successful treatment of the severest forms of male and female sterility. He performed the world's first microsurgical vasectomy reversal, as well as the first testicle transplant and the world's first ovary transplant. He developed, along with his Brussels colleagues, the TESE-ICSI technique for retrieving a few sperm from hopelessly sterile men who appear to be creating no sperm and thereby achieve normal pregnancy rates. His research also includes the study of reproduction and fertility in zoo animals and endangered species in the wild. He directs one of the most successful high tech programs in the world for fertilization in couples with severe infertility problems.
Dr. Silber has treated many thousands of infertile couples who travel to St. Louis daily from all over the world. His patients come from every state in the U.S.A., all over 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, five best-selling books for the layman and more than 200 scientific papers on human infertility and reproduction. 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 appeared on the Donahue Show eight times since 1980, Good Morning America, the Today show, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Gary Collins, Peter Jennings ABC Nightly News, and Ted Koppel Nightline. He has been a consultant numerous times on the Joan Rivers Show and ABC News, and has been a regular contributor many times on CNN, 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 St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
