Bart Fauser

Bart CJM Fauser, MD, PhD, FRCOG, is a Professor Em. of Reproductive Medicine, Gynaecologist, former Chair of the Department for Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology and Head of the Division of Woman & Baby at the University of Utrecht and the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.
He is also a Fellow ad Eundum of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG), Honorary member of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), scientific director of the International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS), international member of the National Academy of Medicine (US), Editor-in-Chief of Reproductive Biomedicine Online (RBMO), Editor of Fertility & Sterility Science, Night in the order of the Netherlands Lion, past.
Bart previously acted as a member of the board of the Dutch Medical Research Counsel (ZonMW), Editor-in-Chief of Human Reproduction Update, chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) steering committee for infertility guidelines, Chair of the ESHRE SIG Reproductive Endocrinology, Fulbright post-doctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, Professor and Division director at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam (The Netherlands); and acted as visiting professor at Stanford University School of Medicine (California, USA), Free University of Brussels (Belgium), University of Siena (Italy), University of Southampton (UK), and the University of Adelaide (Australia).
His major research interests include the pathophysiology of human ovarian function (especially PCOS, and POI), ovarian stimulation, IVF and women’s health (including contraception, menopause and healthy aging). He has published ~ 500 peer-reviewed papers, edited 5 books, and contributed around 80 chapters to all leading textbooks in Reproductive Medicine. is one of the most cited (Hirsch factor ~120) authors in reproductive medicine worldwide,  and his work has been widely covered in the national and international news media.