Yale Medicine Magazine

At the same time researchers are developing innovative new ways to treat infertility, clinicians are making sure the existing techniques are as effective and efficient as possible.

As medicine's understanding of endometriosis has advanced, treatments and procedures have been developed to address the painful affliction.

People are working more and waiting longer to conceive. Doctors like David Seifer, MD, and Emre Seli, MD, are trying to slow the process of aging to help aid successful pregnancies among older couples.

Minimally invasive surgical procedures have given doctors a powerful tool to cure a variety of conditions without endangering patient health unnecessarily. Ultrasound has played an important role in that development.

Research into clinical applications for prenatal gene therapy could offer hope to infants in the womb identified as developing grave conditions such as cystic fibrosis

Melissa Thomas has worn many hats along her path to becoming a healer. Each has informed who she is and who she aims to be: an emergency medicine physician.

Yale’s director of reproductive endocrinology and infertility grew up with a passion for understanding how things work and why. She applies that energy to helping people who have difficulty conceiving.

The seeds for Hugh Taylor's career as a physician-scientist were planted in New Haven when he studied molecular biophysics and biochemistry as an undergraduate at Yale. The chair of the department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Taylor oversees exciting research that's helping change how people think about infertility.

Linda Armstrong, MD '88, a pulmonologist and Head of Novartis' Global Respiratory Development Unit, has been pursuing an interest in science and medicine since a summertime high school laboratory job.