Simon Kipersztok, M.D.

Board Certified Board Certified

  • Retired
Patient Testimonial
It was a long road, but Dr. Kipersztok gave us hope and helped us through it and for that, we are so very thankful.

My husband and I do not have the words to thank Dr. Kipersztok and his staff for the amazing gift of life.

Dr. Kipersztok believed in me more than I did.

Dr. Kipersztok is amazing!!!! He is very honest and open about the entire fertility process.

Dr. Kipersztok is the most experienced physician I have met for infertility issues.

Words cannot express how thankful I am for Dr. Kipersztok and his staff as they guided my husband and I through our fertility journey.

Biography

Dr. Simon Kipersztok has retired from his medical practice.

Simon Kipersztok, M.D., was born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Israel. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1979 and from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1983. He trained in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical Center until 1987. After practicing general obstetrics and gynecology for 3 years in rural New Hampshire, he completed a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the George Washington University Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health in 1992.

Dr. Kipersztok joined Shady Grove Fertility in 2006, having spent 15 years at the University of Florida in Gainesville, eventually rising to the rank of tenured professor of obstetrics and gynecology. He is board re-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Dr. Kipersztok is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and a fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Since 2002 he has been elected every year to Best Doctors® by his peers. He is fluent in Spanish and Hebrew.

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Education

  • Residency: Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan
  • Fellowship: Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, George Washington University Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health
  • Best Doctors®, 2002-2015
  • U.S. News & World Report, 2015
  • American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
  • Whitcomb BW, Turzanski-Fortner R, Richter KS, et al. Contribution of male age to outcomes in assisted reproductive technologies. Fertil Steril. 2011;95:147-51.
  • Pal L, Hailpern SM, Santoro NF, et al. Increased incident hip fractures in postmenopausal women with moderate to severe pelvic organ prolapse. Menopause. 2011;18:967-73.
  • Pal L, Hailpern SM, Santoro NF, et al. Association of pelvic organ prolapse and fractures in postmenopausal women: analysis of baseline data from the Women’s Health Initiative Estrogen Plus Progestin trial. Menopause. 2008;15:59-66.