Advisory Board
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.
Richard P. Buyalos Jr., M.D., FACOG
Dr. Daoshing Ni, D.O.M, L.Ac., Ph.D, Dipl.C.H., FABORM
Jane Lyttleton BSc, M Phil, Dip TCM, Cert Acup (China), Cert Herbal Medicine (China), Fellow AACMA
Paul C. Magarelli, M.D., Ph.D., FACOG
Randine Lewis, MSOM, LAc, PhD (India), FABORM
Shao-Ping Wen, M.D., MMSc, PhD (Cand)
Brandon Horn, PhD, JD, LAc, FABORM
Dr. Daoshing Ni, D.O.M, L.Ac., Ph.D, Dipl.C.H., FABORM
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.
Paul C. Magarelli, M.D., Ph.D., FACOG
Medical Director
Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Centers
Colorado, New Mexico, California
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.
Jane Lyttleton BSc (NZ), M Phil (Lond), Dip TCM (Aus), Cert Acup (China), Cert Herbal Medicine (China), Fellow AACMA
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.
Randine Lewis, MSOM, LAc, PhD (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)
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Brandon Horn, PhD, JD, LAc, FABORM
Brandon Horn, JD, PhD, L.Ac. is a lecturer, researcher and clinician in the fields of acupuncture, herbal medicine and nutrition. He received his Bachelor and Juris Doctorate degrees from the Ohio State University, his Master’s degree in Oriental Medicine from Samra University and his PhD in Classical Chinese Medicine from the American University of Complementary Medicine.
Brandon is one of the ECCM practitioners at the forefront of acupuncture research in infertility. He has two studies published in Fertility and Sterility and several other articles on reproductive medicine in various other peer reviewed journals. Brandon is currently involved in research examining the effects of acupuncture on ovarian blood flow and is teaching a two day advanced course in the treatment of poor ovarian quality (herbalroom.com/seminars.html).
Brandon also has a special interest in nutritional medicine and has patented a novel technique to evaluate individual dietary and nutritional requirements which is currently being studied.
Brandon currently practices in Los Angeles, and is on faculty at UCLA Medical School.
Brian D. Acacio, MD
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, MD
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Dr. Opsahl's Curriculum Vitae
Northwest Center for Reproductive Sciences
12333 NE 130th Lane, Suite 220 Kirkland, WA 98034
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 MD
Dr. Turek is Director of The Turek Clinic, a men’s health clinic in San Francisco (www.TheTurekClinic.com). 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 health care 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.
Dawn M. Upchurch, Ph.D.
Dr. Upchurch is Professor at UCLA School of Public Health and is a health demographer and epidemiologist. She received her AB at Stanford University and her Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has conducted over 20 years of NIH-funded research in women's health, employing biopsychosocial models to better understand women's health and well-being over the life-span, including reproductive health.
Dr. Upchurch is currently completing her Masters in TCM at Emperors College of Traditional Oriental Medicine and is conducting TCM research.
Christine Briton-Jones Ph.D. HCLD
ART Reproductive Center - Embryology Laboratory Supervisor
450 N. Roxbury Drive, Suite 520, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210.
Christine Briton-Jones PhD HCLD, trained in Australia and worked in combined research and clinical positions in Australia and in Hong Kong before joining ART Reproductive Center in Beverly Hills, California.
Dr. Briton-Jones has been working in clinical embryology for more than 20 years and has participated in refining and developing the laboratory techniques that have contributed to the growing success of assisted reproductive technologies with more than 70 peer reviewed scientific manuscripts and abstracts published in international journals. She is a current member of the Editorial Board of Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology Journal (RBEJ) and is an ad hoc reviewer for: Journal of Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology Journal Online, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, Theriogenology Journal, Human Reproduction and Molecular Human Reproduction. Christine is a member in good standing of the National Guild of Hypnotists, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and The Pacific Coast Reproductive Society. Her current research interests include hypnosis for infertility, fertility preservation and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).