Words cannot communicate our deep appreciation for what you have done for our family. We came to you with a glimmer of hope and you turned it into a dream that has now come true. Your expertise in the field is unequaled, and without question we are very lucky and grateful that you accepted our case. Your optimism is truly inspirational and the emotional care with which you handled us was exceptional. Your caring demeanor was echoed through your staff as well, and we're also grateful to them. Not day goes by that we do not thank God for what you have done for us. Your effect on our lives is immeasurable and we look forward to adding to our family again. With all thanks to you!
Biography
(March 2024) Marc Goldstein, MD, DSc (hon), FACS is the Matthew P. Hardy Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine, and Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University; Surgeon-in-Chief, Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery; and Director of the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine and Microsurgery at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is Adjunct Senior Scientist with the Population Council’s Center for Biomedical Research, located on the campus of Rockefeller University.
Dr. Goldstein is the only male infertility specialist cited in the American Health Magazine special issue on The Best Doctors in America and is listed in the New York Times Magazine Super Doctors (2015-2023). He is listed in the books Best Doctors in America (2017), The Castle Connolly Guide America’s Top Doctors (2023 for twenty consecutive years), How to Find the Best Doctors, New York Metro Area (2017), as well as America’s Top Surgeons (2023). He is a board-certified urologic surgeon and member of a dozen national and international medical societies dealing with male infertility and reproduction. He is Past-President of the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and recipient of the 1997 Master Teacher in Urology Award and the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater. He has been honored by RESOLVE and the American Infertility Association for his “Outstanding Dedication and Commitment to Family Building,” and was the recipient of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award of The American Fertility Association. He received an honorary Doctor of Science in 2008 from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center. In 2009, he received the John Coleman, M.D. Teaching Award from the Department of Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College. On the occasion of SUNY Downstate’s 150th anniversary in 2010, he was named one of the 150 most distinguished graduates in the history of the Medical College. He is the recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Surgeon Award from the Society of Reproductive Surgeons, the 2017 Kavoussi Family Outstanding Teacher Award of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Reproductive Urology Award from the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction. He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology at the 2023 Annual meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.
Dr. Goldstein is internationally renowned for his pioneering work in vasectomy reversals and microsurgical repair of varicoceles and blockages. He has performed over 1,000 microsurgical vaso-vasostomies and vaso-epididymostomies, yielding the highest peer-reviewed journal reported sperm return and pregnancy rates.
He developed a microsurgical technique of varicocelectomy in 1984 and has performed over 4,500 cases with the lowest reported failure and complication rates. He was the first American surgeon
to be trained in, and perform, the Chinese method of No-Scalpel Vasectomy. He has introduced the microsurgically assisted inguinal hernia repair which significantly reduces complications and failures.
Dr. Goldstein has authored or co-authored over 330 journal articles, book chapters and books. He is the author of Surgery of Male Infertility, the first textbook on the subject. He is co-author of The Couple’s Guide to Fertility (Broadway/Random House 2001, 3rd edition), The Vasectomy Book (Houghton Mifflin), Reproductive Medicine Secrets (Hanley & Belfus, 2004), A Baby at Last (Simon & Schuster 2010), and, with Peter Schlegel, Male Infertility (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is on the editorial board of the medical journals Microsurgery and Fertility and Sterility. He is the author of The Atlas of Male Infertility Microsurgery (Springer Nature, 2023) He has also been featured in interviews on numerous major media outlets including NBC’s The Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Eyewitness News, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
A summa cum laude graduate of the College of Medicine, State University of New York – Downstate Medical, Dr. Goldstein was an intern and resident in general surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. After three years overseas in the U.S. Air Force, attaining the rank of Major and flying in F4 Phantom aircraft as a Flight Surgeon, Dr. Goldstein was trained in urology at Downstate Medical Center. He continued his post-graduate training in reproductive physiology as an AUA scholar at the Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research, located on the campus of Rockefeller University, and at the Rockefeller University Hospital.
Drawing on his Air Force experience, Dr. Goldstein was one of the first surgeons to routinely employ checklists in the operating room to reduce errors and complications.
Dr. Goldstein is an admirer of the late, great physician, Sir William Osler, whose motto was, “Do the kind thing, and do it first,” and said, “The secret of good patient care is caring for the patient.”
Dr. Goldstein is a long-distance runner and triathlete who races regularly and has completed 20 New York City Marathons and over 45 triathlons and duathlons.
Dr. Goldstein’s office address is: Center for Male Reproductive Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College, Box 269, 525 E 68th Street, New York, NY 10065. The telephone number to make an appointment is (212) 746-5470. The fax number is (646)962-0096. For further information about his male infertility practice, please visit his website at www.maleinfertility.org.