Alan Hersh Decherney MD

Alan Hersh DeCherney, M.D. received his Medical Degree from Temple University School of Medicine where he was AOA and awarded the Henry Laughlin Alumnus of the Year Award in 2005. His internship in Medicine was at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an honorary Master of Arts Degree from Yale University and he completed a research fellowship in Immunology at the Lister Institute in London, England.

He is currently Deputy Clinical Director for Academic Affairs, Director, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship Program and Head, Reproductive Endocrinology and Gynecology Affinity Group of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. DeCherney has been a Member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Institute of Medicine (IOM) since 2004 and was Chairperson of the IOM Interest Group on Maternal & Child & Human Development 2008 to 2010. In 2015 he served on the IOM Committee on Ethical and Social Policy Considerations of Novel Techniques for the Prevention of Maternal Transmission of Mitochondrial DNA Diseases.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Past President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine; a Past President of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, the Society of Reproductive Surgeons, and the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology. He is a Member of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society and a Past President of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (now Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI).