Zeev Shoham MD

Professor Zeev Shoham, MD, was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. He received his M.D. degree from the Hadassah Medical Center in 1981. Later completing his residency at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot and his fellowship in infertility and in vitro fertilization at Tel - Hashomer Hospital and MIDDLESEX Hospital in London, UK.

Since 1988, he has specialized in a wide range of treatments including: Fertility treatments, in vitro fertilization, oocyte retrieval preservation and freezing, donor eggs and sperm, care for women during pregnancy and follow-up, and treatment of postmenopausal women. In 1991, Prof. Shoham received an award from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology for the best scientific research that year in Europe for his work on stimulating sperm production by adding GH to treatment with gonadotropins in patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.

Professor Shoham has published over 140 papers in the field of Reproductive Medicine, and his publications have won international awards. In addition, he has contributed chapters to numerous books. He is the editor/ author of the textbook, Female Infertility Therapy: Current Practice (1999), and one of the four editors of the textbook, Assisted Reproductive Techniques, which is at its fourth edition. Professor Shoham is the co-founder of IVF-Worldwide, the most comprehensive website on in-vitro fertilization. Professor Shoham has been organizing international medical conferences for the past 18 years and is a lecturer at many conferences in the field.