Kamran S. Moghissi, M.D.
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Professor Emeritus
Member since 2010

Kamran Moghissi, M.D., is professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology for the Wayne State University School of Medicine. He joined the faculty in 1962.

The author and coauthor of more than 360 publications in scientific journals and editor or co-editor of 17 books, he has served as president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (1990-91), the Society of Reproductive Endocrinologist (1989-90) and as the first president of the Michigan Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists. He has also served as a member of the U S Food and Drug Administration's Fertility and Maternal Health Drug Advisory Committee as a member and chair of the Reproductive Endocrinology Study Section of the National Institutes for Health, as a member of the Population Research Committee of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and a consultant to the World Health Organization. He has been the recipient of numerous research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the WHO and pharmaceutical companies.

The recipient of the National Presidents Award of the Michigan State Medical Society and the Wayne County Medical Society's Professional Achievement Award, Dr. Moghissi established the first Comprehensive Infertility Clinic at Wayne State University/Hutzel Hospital and the first successful In Vitro Fertilization program in Michigan. He has served as chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harper-Grace Hospital and Hutzel Hospital and as chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center. His other honors include an honorary professorship at Zheijang Chinese Medical University, the Pathfinders in Medicine Award, the Weiner Recognition Award and the Distinguished Service Award from Wayne State University. An annual lectureship in his name in the WSU Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has been established.

In 1997, Wayne State University honored Dr. Moghissi by establishing the Kamran S. Moghissi, M.D., Chair in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility.