He is President-Elect of the Los Angeles Urologic Society and has served as former Chief of Urology at Century City Hospital, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Urology at The University of Southern California School of Medicine. As a male infertility specialist, Dr. Werthman has a keen understanding and perspective of the unique issues that confront men who are faced with this unfamiliar and unsettling situation.
Dr. Werthman's practice is limited exclusively to microsurgical vasectomy reversal, no-scalpel vasectomy and the treatment of male infertility. He has performed thousands of microsurgical procedures and well over 1000 no-scalpel vasectomies. He has conducted basic science and clinical research in the areas of gene therapy for male infertility for which he was awarded the American Urological Association Western Section’s highest resident award, the Proctor and Gamble First Prize Essay in 1995. He is also actively involved in designing and refining microsurgical instrumentation and suture materials used in male infertility treatments.
Dr. Werthman was the first fertility specialist to perform microsurgical epididymal sperm aspirations in the office setting under local anesthesia, taking a 2-hour, in hospital surgery and making it a quick recovery, minor procedure. He is also the developer of the mini-incision microsurgical vasoepididymostomy.
Dr. Werthman is the editor of a textbook on male infertility for
the series "Infertility and Reproductive
Medicine Clinics of North America" Published by WB Saunders,
and is co-author of "The Sperm Goes in the Egg; A Guy’s
Guide for Surviving Couples Infertility." He serves as the
male infertility expert on multiple web sites, advising thousands
of couples. In addition, he is often called upon by the national
media to comment on men's health issues, and lectures frequently
on infertility to both doctor and patient audiences around the country.
Dr. Werthman is the only male fertility specialist on the advisory board of Conceive Magazine.
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American Urologic Association
Western Section of the AUA
American Society
of Reproductive Medicine
American Society of Andrology
Society for Assisted
Reproductive Technology
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Society for the Study
of Male Reproduction
Pacific Coast Fertility Society
Society for Reproductive Surgeons
American College of Surgeons
Advisory Board of
Conceive Magazine |
Dr. Werthman earned his medical degree from Hahnemann University
School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he graduated as his class
valedictorian (number one student in all four years). He won four
academic scholarships in Medical school and was awarded the Medical
Staff Award for Highest Attainment on the National Boards medical
examination. He completed his urology residency and fellowship at
UCLA. He was awarded a visiting fellowship in male infertility and
microsurgery at The Baylor College of Medicine in Houston
Dr. Werthman played college basketball at SUNY Binghamton and is
an avid skier and cyclist. He is currently authoring a book on Consciousness
and Conception, A Spiritual Guide to Pregnancy.
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