Samuel S. Thatcher, M.D., Ph.D.

Samuel Thatcher, author of the Perspectives Press title PCOS: The Hidden Epidemic, began his career in reproductive science in 1973 when studying the detrimental effects of aging on reproduction. This culminated in a Ph.D. in human anatomy/reproductive biology at West Virginia University, where he simultaneously received his M.D. A year of post-doctoral research was spent between Edinburgh (Scotland) and Johns Hopkins Universities. On completion of his residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale/New Haven Hospital, he returned to Edinburgh University as Lecturer in Reproductive Medicine and Medical Director of the IVF program of Edinburgh University and the Royal Infirmary. He completed a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and served on the faculty in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at Yale before returning to East Tennessee.

His research interests continue in PCOS, reproductive aging, ovarian function, assisted reproduction and early human development. He is a member of over twenty national and international societies and has authored numerous medical journal articles. Dr. Thatcher is an active consumer advocate, serving on the Advisory Board of The American Infertility Association as well as on the Advisory Board of INCIID (the International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination) for which he co-moderates the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) forum on INCIID and writes the internet column “Thatcher’s Thoughts.” He has recently authored, with Debra Bruce, Making a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Get Pregnant (Ballantine,
2000.)

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