Dr. Alan Stewart Penzias M.D.
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecology
130 2nd Ave Boston Ivf - The Wal Waltham MA, 02451About
Dr. Alan Penzias is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Waltham, MA. Dr. Penzias specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Penzias can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Penzias can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Brooklyn, Coll of Med, Brooklyn Ny 1986
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 1986
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG- Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Infertility. Contemporary office-based evaluation and treatment.
- Luteal phase support.
- Laparoscopic salpingectomy using conventional laparoscopy equipment.
- When and why does the dream die? Or does it?
- Improving results with assisted reproductive technologies: individualized patient-tailored strategies for ovulation induction.
- Subfertility, fecundability, and the impact of laparoscopy on conception rates.
- Clomiphene citrate and intrauterine insemination: analysis of more than 4100 cycles.
- Assessment of day-3 morphology and euploidy for individual chromosomes in embryos that develop to the blastocyst stage.
- Cumulative live-birth rates after in vitro fertilization.
- Age-related variations in follicular apolipoproteins may influence human oocyte maturation and fertility potential.
- The human ovarian follicular fluid level of interleukin-8 is associated with follicular size and patient age.
- The bile acid synthesis pathway is present and functional in the human ovary.
- Influence of patient age on the association between euploidy and day-3 embryo morphology.
- Avoiding transmitting identified mutations to offspring using preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
- Cumulative live-birth rates after assisted reproductive technology.
Awards
- 2011 Boston Super Doctors
- 1995 Excellence in Teaching Citation. Tufts
- 1994 Residents Award 1994 & 1995.
- 2000 President, Boston Fertility Society, .
Treatments
- Infertility
- Endometriosis
- Fibroids
- Pregnancy
- Hypothyroidism
Professional Memberships
- Member ASRM
- Member ACOG
Fellowships
- YALE-NEW HAVEN MED CTR PROG, NEW HAVEN, CT,, Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility 1990
- Yale New Haven Hospital in Reproductive Endocrinology, New Haven, CT 1992
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