Male Infertility

lt;p>Dr. Sijo Parekattil is Co-Director of PUR Clinic (Personalized Urology & Robotics) at South Lake Hospital & Orlando Health & Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He was an Electrical Engineer (University of Michigan) prior to his medical training and thus has interests in surgical techniques incorporating technology, robotics and microsurgery. He completed his urology residency training at Albany Medical Center and then went onto complete dual fellowship training from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland in Laparoscopy/Robotic Surgery and Microsurgery/Male Infertility. 

Dr. Parekattil has received numerous awards and published several articles in the field of robotic microsurgery. He is an editor on a few textbooks on Male Infertility and a surgical textbook on Robotic Microsurgery. He is a pioneer in robotic microsurgery in urology. He has developed novel treatments for chronic groin and testicular pain. He is one of the founding Board members of the Robotic Assisted Microsurgical & Endoscopic Society (RAMSES) and is on the foundation board for Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, FL.

Sandro C. Esteves is Medical & Scientific Director of ANDROFERT-Andrology and Human Reproduction Clinic-a referral Fertility Center for Male Reproduction in Brazil. 

He earned his MD. in 1990 from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, where he did residency training in General Surgery and Urology. He completed his training in the United States (1995-1996) as a Research Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Reproductive Medicine. He was awarded a Master's degree in Surgery in 1998, at UNICAMP, and a PhD. in Medicine (Urology) in 2001, at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). Dr. Esteves is a Board-certified Urologist by the Brazilian Society of Urology, and a certified-ART Center director and IVF Consultant by the Brazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction.

Sandro is a Collaborating Professor in the Department of Surgery (Division of Urology) at the University of Campinas (Brazil) and Honorary Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology at the Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Denmark. Sandro is also Research Collaborator at the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Reproductive Medicine (USA). His major contributions in the field of reproductive medicine have been in the area of male infertility and microsurgery, reproductive endocrinology, assisted reproductive technology, cleanroom technology, and quality management. His Center, ANDROFERT, was one of the first Centers, both in Brazil and worldwide, to introduce quality management and IVF cleanroom technology, and it is certified according to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14644-1 standards.

Prof. Esteves has published approximately 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers, authored over 80 book chapters, and presented over 150 papers at both national and international scientific meetings. His current Hirsch index is 46 (Google scholar) while his citation count is more than 6,000. Sandro is also a Faculty member of F1000Prime in the area of reproductive endocrinology & infertility since 2016 and is a co-founder of Group POSEIDON (Patient-Oriented Strategies Encompassing IndividualizeD Oocyte Number) (www.groupposeidon.com). He is also a member of the Society for Translational Medicine's male infertility cooperative group. 

Dr. Esteves has served as an editor of 8 textbooks related to male infertility, reproductive medicine, and assisted reproductive technology. He is also the guest editor of 6 special issues in scientific journals on topics related to reproductive medicine. Sandro currently serves on the Editorial Board of several Journals and is Associate Editor of International Brazilian Journal of Urology and Frontiers in Endocrinology (Reproduction). 

Dr. Esteves is a much-requested international lecturer and gives approximately 50 lectur

Causes of Male Infertility.- Epidemiologic Considerations in Male Infertility.- Laboratory Evidence for Male Infertility.- Imaging Modalities in the Management of Male Infertility.- Endocrinopathies.- Oxidative Stress and its Association with Male Infertility.- Oxidative Stress Measurement in Semen and Seminal Plasma.- Sperm Chromatin Integrity Tests and Indications.- Proteomic and Metabolomic Fingerprinting in Male Infertility.- Epigenetics and Male Infertility .- Genetic Aspects of Male Infertility.- Surgical Treatment for Male Infertility.- Microsurgery for Male Infertility.- Advanced Techniques of Vasoepididymostomy.- Grafting Techniques for Vasectomy Reversal.- Mini-Incision Vasectomy Reversal Using the No-Scalpel Vasectomy Instruments and Principles.- Office-Based Microsurgery under Local Anesthesia for Male Infertility.- Robotic Microsurgery for Male Infertility and Chronic Orchialgia.- RoboticVasectomy Reversal: An American Perspective.- Robot-Assisted Vasectomy Reversal (Vasovasostomy).- Robotic-Assisted Varicocelectomy.- Management of Fertility Preservation in Male Cancer Patients.- Clinical Management of Men with Nonobstructive Azoospemia due to Spermatogenic Failure.- ART and Its Impact on Male Infertility Management.- Fuel/energy sources of spermatozoa.- Physiologic Role of ROS in Sperm Function.- Sperm physiology and assessment of spermatogenesis kinetics in vivo.- Origins of Sperm DNA Damage.- Seminal Oxidation-Reduction Potential.- Varicocele.- Infection in Infertility.- EJACULATORY DYSFUNCTION AND VASODYNAMICS.-  Environmental Factors.- Effect of Exogenous Medications and Anabolic Steroids in Male Reproductive and Sexual Health.- Male Age and Andropause.- Apoptosis and Male Infertility.- Impact of Spinal Cord Injury.- Obesity.- Smoking effects on male fertility.- Recreational Drugs.- Nutritional Pathways to Protect Male Reproductive Health.- Antioxidants and Male Infertility.- Synthetic Antioxidants.- New developments for the Enhancement of Male Reproductive Health using Antioxidant Therapy: A Critical Review of the Literature.- IN VITRO STUDIES OF ANTIOXIDANTS FOR MALE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH.- Antioxidants Use and Sperm DNA Damage.- YOGA, MEDITATION AND ACUPUNCTURE FOR MALE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH.- Role of interventions to reduce oxidative stress and improve sperm DNA integrity before ICSI.- Sperm Retrieval Techniques.- Microdissection Testicular Sperm Extraction.- Sperm Processing and Selection.- Microfluidic sperm selection.- Antioxidants in Sperm Cryopreservation.- Antioxidants in ICSI.- Role of Sperm-Hyaluronic Acid Binding in the Evaluation and Treatment of Subfertile Men with ROS-Affected Semen.-  Sperm DNA Damage, ART Outcomes and Laboratory Methods for Selecting DNA-Intact Sperm for ICSI.- Testicular Sperm in Non-Azoospermic Infertile Men with Oxidatively-Induced High Sperm DNA Damage.- Development of Artificial Gametes.- ICSI and Male Infertility: Consequences to Offspring.- Best Practice Guidelines for Male Infertility Diagnosis and Management.- Best Practice Guidelines for Sperm DNA Fragmentation Testing.- Antioxidants in the medical and surgical management of male infertility.- Fertility Preservation for boys and adolescents.- Novel Home-based Devices for Male Infertility Screening.- Ethical Dimensions of Male Infertility.- Harmful Effects of Antioxidant Therapy.- Male Infertility from the Developing Nation Perspective.- Diabetes and Male Infertility.- Empiric Medical Therapy for Idiopathic Male Infertility.- Testosterone therapy in male infertility.