Author: Dr. Leon Speroff

Leon Speroff received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, following which he completed his training in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. After two years in the Air Force, Dr. Speroff was a Fellow in the Training Program for Steroid Biochemistry at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and then a Research Associate with Dr. Raymond Vande Wiele in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Currently, Dr. Speroff is Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. His previous appointments included Assistant Chairman and Director of the Gynecologic Endocrine Laboratory in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine, Chairman of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Oregon Health Sciences University, and Chairman of the Department of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Speroff has served as President of the American Fertility Society (now the American Society for Reproductive Medicine) and was the founding President of the Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists. Dr. Speroff’s wide range of editorial activities has involved 14 specialty journals in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive medicine. He served as the host of the Lifetime Cable Television program on obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Speroff is the senior author of Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, now in its 8th edition, and A Clinical Guide for Contraception, now in its 5th edition. He has written the biography of Carlos Montezuma, an American Indian physician who was a prominent activist for Indian rights in the early 1900s. His latest works include the historical story of two railroads, competing with each other as they were building on opposite banks of the same river: The Deschutes River Railroad War, a journal of his rookie senior softball season: A Slow-Pitch Summer, and A Good Man, the biography of Gregory Pincus, the developer of the birth control pill.