Kutluk Oktay, M.D.

Dr. Oktay is an internationally recognized specialist in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Center for Human Reproductive Medicine in New York and the director and founder of the Institute for Fertility Preservation (www.fertilitypreservation.org). He is also professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the division of reproductive medicine at New York Medical College.

After earning his M.D. degree at the Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey, he trained in internal medicine at Marmara University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, and Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. He then completed his obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Connecticut Health Center and subspecialty training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Oktay was then awarded a prestigious fellowship at the University of Leeds Assisted Reproduction Unit in England.

Dr. Oktay has pioneered the ovarian cryopreservation and transplantation procedures and performed the first ovarian transplant procedures in the world. He has also developed special ovarian stimulation protocols as well as cryopreservation techniques to preserve fertility and reproductive function in cancer and non-cancer patients who would normally lose their fertility due to chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery.

He has published extensively in journals such as JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine, and has received many scientific awards. In addition, Dr. Oktay has been recognized among the top doctors in New York by New York Magazine and among the top doctors in America by Castle and Connolly. "What Breastcancer.org offers is outstanding," says Dr. Oktay, "and I am honored to be able to contribute to this extremely helpful resource."