The ABORM Board of Advisors serve in an Advisory and Consultancy role only. They are non-voting Advisors to the Board of Directors and the ABORM Membership at-large, and while all are subject matter experts in the field of Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, some Advisors are ABORM Fellows, and some are Physicians/REI’s.
Reproductive Medicine Adviser
Paul C. Magarelli, M.D., Ph.D., FACOG
Medical Director, Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Centers
Colorado, New Mexico, California
Dr. Magarelli is a Board Certified RE&I practicing in Colorado Springs since 1998, Dr. Paul C. Magarelli is a nationally noted specialist in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility. He is founder and Medical Director of Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Centers in Colorado and New Mexico. He is Associate professor and UNM IVF center medical director at the University of New Mexico and Clinical Professor at Yo San University in LA, CA where he teaches Ph.D. TCM candidates western medicine with integration with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). He is Founding Advisor to the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine.
Dr. Magarelli has presented and published ground breaking research in the area of integrating Eastern (Acupuncture) and Western medical treatments for infertility. Today, he continues to investigate the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine in treating IVF patients, thereby forging the way for the future of reproductive medicine.
Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Magarelli was honored as the recipient of the Reproductive Scientist Award in 1994 by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Practicing Physicians Award in 2004 by the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (PCRS). He also served as a member of the Board of Directors for PCRS. Currently he is Vice President/Financial for PCRS. He is currently President Elect of the PCRS 2012-2013.
Dr. Magarelli brings a very unique background to RMFC. He has a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry specializing in Marine Animal Reproduction. He has worked for General Mills heading a research program and their learned the value of “bottom Line” planning. With this varied background Dr. Magarelli has developed very Cost Effective plans for fertility care: Planning 4 Pregnancy ™ and has developed computerized information systems with Broadband access and video conferencing to allow remote medical practices to operate at peak efficiency for the reproductive care of his patients. He also prides himself in providing High Tech with a Personal Touch ™. Recently he developed a Cross Border Donor Program for IVF centers in Western Canada… these programs are one of the most cost effective plans to help Canadian couples grow or create their families.
He has authored numerous abstracts and articles in peer review journals in his subspecialty, and is currently a reviewer for the journal “Fertility & Sterility. His book chapter: Revolution in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on IVF outcomes. Cambridge University Press. “Infertility and Assisted Reproduction” represents the first Eastern Medicine chapter in a Western Medicine textbook on reproductive medicine. October 2008 he presented his data on Acupuncture and IVF in Venice and was plenary speaker (2006) at the American Associate of Medical Acupuncturists’ meeting in Washington D.C. He has presented at the Society for Acupuncture Research, American Oriental Medicine Association, and the American Association of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine national meetings.
Dr. Magarelli is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technologies. He is also a member of the Pacific Coast Fertility Society. He is a advisor to the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine.
Affiliate Advisers
Dr. Daoshing Ni, D.O.M, L.Ac., Ph.D., Dipl.C.H.
Dr. Dao is a Licensed Acupuncturist in the State of California and is a Diplomat of Chinese Herbology NCCA. Dr. Dao has been active in the TCM profession as well as professional organizations. He was an examiner for the California Acupuncture Committee and also participated in the Chinese Herbology Exam development for NCCA. Well known and respected for his special interest in reproductive and gynecological conditions. Dr. Dao is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Pacific Coast Fertility Society, and American Association of Oriental Medicine.
Dana Price (she/her) – DOM, Dipl. O.M., L.Ac., FABORM
Dana Price is the founder and clinical director at ilumina Healing Sanctuary in Scottsdale, Arizona. Since 2002, ilumina has offered Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine with specialization in fertility, pregnancy, and women’s health. As a pioneer in her field she established the use of acupuncture in combination with IVF and has been working alongside Phoenix’s reproductive endocrinologists for over 20 yers.
As an Arizona native, she attended the University of Arizona and earned a degree in Anthropology. Upon graduation she moved to New Mexico to earn her Master’s degree from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine in which she graduated as class valedictorian.
Her clinical studies were completed with an internship in gynecology and Chinese Herbal Medicine at the Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Sichuan, China. Dana made a commitment early on to specialize in the treatment of women’s health — specifically fertility enhancement and pregnancy-related disorders. She has collaborated with many reproductive endocrinologists, obstetrician gynecologists, and perinatologists and is a sought-after teacher and nationally renowned expert in her field.
Dana is a founding member of the ABORM and has been involved with the organization since 2007 and has served on the executive board as Secretary. Dana also was a board member of the Arizona State Board of Acupuncture Examiners and the ASAOM in Arizona based professional organization. She has been a faculty member at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and the Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture.
Dana has a strong commitment to upholding the standards and mission of the ABORM and increasing the Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion of the public, fellows, and board members. Dana looks forward to supporting current and establishing new relationships for the ABORM and creating benefit for all involved.
Sadie Minkoff L.Ac., FABORM
Sadie Minkoff is the clinical director of the largest reproductive acupuncture practice in central Texas, a pioneer in the field, she is known for her intuitive and compassionate care. For over twenty years she has worked with her partner, Dr. Mitch Schreiber DACM. Together they opened Sage Acupuncture, Austin’s premier holistic fertility clinic. Later they founded The Cancer Wellness Center for patients, survivors, and their caregivers. Sadie and Mitch dedicated their life’s work to fertility and oncology because their family has been personally touched by both. It is their mission to support others faced with these challenges by providing exceptional care in a healing environment.
Sadie has seen first hand the great benefit that an interdisciplinary approach to healing can bring. In addition to her private practice, she has worked in various clinical settings including The Texas Fertility Center, Austin Surgical Hospital, Central Family Practice, The Genetics & IVF Institute of Virginia, Tulsi Holistic Living, and the Carl Vogel Center of Washington, DC.
She is an inaugural Fellow of ABORM the Acupuncture Board of TCM and Reproductive Medicine and serves as Vice President and Interim Executive Director. She holds certification in Infertility, Prenatal Care, and Maternal Health from the Kharrazian Institute for Functional Medicine, is a certified Obstetrical Acupuncture Association senior member, is licensed by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, nationally certified by the NCCAOM, and holds a four year Masters of Science degree from AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine. In 2019 she was highlighted as one of AOMA’s most successful alumni.
Sadie has been a guest lecturer at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine as well as the The Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has UT Health Medical students shadow her as part of their REI rotation. In 2006 she contributed to a peer review of “Chinese Medical Herbology and Pharmacology,” by the Art of Medicine Press.
One of the most rewarding aspects of Sadie’s work is educating patients, other acupuncturists, and healthcare professionals about integrative reproductive medicine. For many years Sage has been honored to receive the Austin Birth Award for Best Acupuncture Clinic and Best Herbalist. They were also named best Austin acupuncturists in Tribeza Magazine Wellness Guide and by Expertise.com.
Richard P. Buyalos Jr., M.D., FACOG
Fertility & Surgical Associates of California
Dr. Richard Buyalos is board certified in reproductive endocrinology, obstetrics and gynecology and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. A graduate of the Thomas Jefferson University Medical College in Pennsylvania, Dr. Buyalos serves as associate clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine and is internationally recognized for his work in infertility, reproductive- aging, and polycystic ovary syndrome.
With over 20 years of experience since 1983 in ovulation induction and assisted reproductive technology (ART), he has published more than 70 scientific articles, abstracts and book chapters, and is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists and the Society of Reproductive Surgeons.
Dr. Buyalos has served as faculty for courses on advanced operative laparoscopy and pelvic reconstructive surgery. He has received awards from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, given prize-winning presentations at the Annual Meeting of the American Fertility Society, and received the “Best Doctors for Women” award by Good Housekeeping magazine in 1997.
Dr. Buyalos serves on a variety of committees for both the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and is an ad hoc reviewer for several scientific journals. Additionally, he is co-director for Fertility and Surgical Associates of California.
Randine Lewis, MSOM, L.Ac., Ph.D. (India), (FABORM)
A licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, has studied both Eastern and Western medicine. After attending Osteopathic medical school, she began her career in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She earned her graduate and post-graduate degrees in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, focusing on fertility, and performed her internship at the prestigious Dalian Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. Dr. Lewis is a diplomat with the NCCAOM, is a professional member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and is on the Women’s Counsel of the ASRM. She supports, lectures, and publishes articles for RESOLVE, the American Infertility Association, and medical organizations, and is a medical expert on numerous online fertility boards. Dr. Lewis authored The Infertility Cure , Little Brown & Co., 2004, and has appeared on ABC Eyewitness News, NBC HealthBeat; CBS Up Close; PBS Weekday and Weeknight, all featuring her successes treating infertility with Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is devoted to providing quality, natural reproductive enhancement.
Dr. Lewis is licensed in Texas, Minnesota and North Carolina
Shao-Ping Wen, M.D., MMSc, PhD (Cand)
Dr. Shao-ping Weng received his Ph.D. in reproductive toxicology from Taiwan’s top-ranked university, NTU, in 2012. Prior to this time, Dr. Weng studied at the University of Nottingham, where he obtained a Master of Medical Science degree in assisted reproductive technology. He also became a visiting assistant researcher and clinical fellow at UCLA. Dr. Weng was awarded for his efforts with a certificate in 2007. He took first place in the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society’s Poster Award as well as their Scholarship for his research at UCLA. He joined the Society’s advisory board at that time.
Besides having a strong background in Western medicine, Dr. Weng also firmly believes in the effectiveness of certain fields of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Modern science has already shown procedures such as acupuncture or acupressure can assist in the process of embryo implantation. Although Chinese medicine dates back to an ancient times, its application to Western concepts is still exciting and full of possibilities, and Dr. Weng tries to stay on the top of the latest developments.
Dr. Weng is committed to two principals: Frist, he is dedicated to helping patients facing difficulty becoming pregnant overcome this hurdle. This especially applies to the elderly and individuals with health complications,. Second, he stresses the safety of the mother and newborn should always remain the foremost concern of any doctor. Dr. Weng has recently founded a clinic in Taipei to carry out IVF, fertility surgery, and fertility investigation, providing the highest standards possible and including his vision as well.
Brian D. Acacio, M.D.
Dr. Acacio is committed to compassionate, personalized care and takes pride in personally serving each one of his patients. He empathizes like few can because he and his wife have been through IVF treatment.
He is actively involved in teaching and consulting at a number of schools and programs including USC, Loma Linda University, Glendale Adventist Hospital, and Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield.
Dr. Acacio volunteers his time to give lectures on topics of his expertise such as Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Endometriosis, and Recurrent Miscarriage. Dr. Acacio has over 30 publications and presentations in nationally recognized peer review journals and conferences.
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Michael Opsahl, M.D.
Northwest Center for Reproductive Sciences, Kirkland, WA
Dr. Opsahl graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1974 with a degree in Biology. He joined Navy ROTC and accepted a scholarship to medical school funded by the Navy. He graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1978 and served an internship in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Naval Hospital Portsmouth Virginia. He served as an obstetrician-gynecologist at the Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Japan then returned to the Washington DC metro area to fellowship-training in Reproductive Endocrinology at Walter Reed Army Hospital (WRAMC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In 1987 Dr. Opsahl transferred to the National Naval Medical Center as the reproductive endocrinologist and served at the NNMC in Bethesda as Director of Reproductive Endocrinology, during which time he also held an appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). NNMC was one of the primary training hospitals for medical students at USUHS. Dr. Opsahl also trained REI fellows from the fellowship that he attended at WRAMC/NIH. He was very involved in teaching, research and academics.
Dr. Opsahl retired from the Navy after 20 years service in 1994. He held a position at the Genetics & IVF Institute (GIVF) in Fairfax, VA for 10 years and eventually because the infertility medical director, learning IVF from colleagues at GIVF.
Dr. Opsahl developed the understanding of the symbiotic relationship between the IVF laboratory and the clinical REI. In his own practice, he has a business model/relationship in which the physician and scientist are truly equals in order to produce the best possible outcomes for patients, and collaborates with Klaus Wiemer, PhD, HCLD.
Dr. Opsahl is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a member of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. He authored or co -authored over 25 scientific papers. He continues to serve as an ad-hoc reviewer for the medical journals Fertility and Sterility and Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Paul J. Turek, M.D.
Dr. Turek is Director of The Turek Clinic, a men’s health clinic in San Francisco. He is a former Professor of Urology, Obstetrics & Gynecology at the UCSF and held the Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair in Urology Education. He is an internationally noted master microsurgeon and men’s reproductive healthcare specialist.
Dr. Turek attended Yale College, followed by Stanford University Medical School. Following a urology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Turek was fellowship trained at Baylor College of Medicine. His 175 publications include basic and clinical research that focuses on germ and stem cell genetics, and epidemiologic studies of men’s sexual and reproductive health problems. He is on the Advisory Board of the national Men’s Health Care Network and the NIH Reproductive Medicine Network and he is the Editor of the Reproductive Volume of Netter’s Images, 2nd Edition, due out in 2011.
He is President of the American Society of Andrology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Société Internationale d’Urologie and the Royal Society of Medicine (London). He has chaired numerous courses for the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction and the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology. In San Francisco, he recently founded a volunteer medical clinic powered by retired physicians for the working uninsured. His hobbies include vintage cars and longboard surfing.
Jane Lyttleton, BSc (NZ), M Phil (Lond), Dip TCM (Aus), Cert Acup (China), Cert Herbal Medicine (China), Fellow AACMA, (FABORM)
Paddington Medical Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Jane is qualified as a research scientist and Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). After thirty years of TCM clinical experience and having had the privilege of working in hospital gynaecology departments with some of China’s best known specialists, she sits comfortably with the logic of both Chinese medicine and western science and feels both can contribute greatly to positive therapeutic outcomes for the patient.
Jane is the Director of a multi-modality medical centre in Sydney where she practices TCM focusing on her specialty in gynaecology and infertility.
Jane is the author of the preeminent authoritative text on the treatment of reproductive disorders with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): “The Treatment of Infertility with Chinese Medicine”, published by Churchill Livingston Press.
She is also the co-author of “The Clinical Handbook of Internal Medicine” Volumes 1 and 2, published by UWS and Pangolin Press.
She lectures at universities in Sydney and internationally.