Frederick Naftolin, MD, PhD

Frederick Naftolin’s MD is from University of California, San Francisco (1961), his D.Phil. from Oxford (G.W Harris) 1970.  His Obstetrics and Gynecology residency was at UCLA (Daniel Morton) and his Endocrinology Fellowship at U. Washington (C. Alvin Paulsen and Seymour Klebanoff).  He was Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill University, Canada, (1975-8) and Yale University (1978-2000).  From 2005-2019 he was Research Professor (Obstetrics and Gynecology), New York University.

Professor Naftolin was a Guggenheim Fellow, Berlex Fellow and NIH Fogarty Fellow twice. He was Visiting Professor at U. Geneva (SW), Complutense U (SP) and The Weitzmann Institute (IL) .

Professor Naftolin is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, ad eundum member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a Fellow of the International Academy of Human Reproduction.  He is an active member of numerous American research Societies. He is a recipient of the Arnaldo Bruno award from the Italian Academy of Science.

He was President of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI) and of the North American Menopause Society and has received their highest awards for research. He has been honored by the establishment of a named award for mentorship, given annually by the SRI.

Professor Naftolin was for 25 years the Director of the Yale Reproductive Biology Program, and for 20 years a Co-PI for the Yale Department of Biology Training Program.  He was for 15 years a co-principal investigator and Head of the Admissions Committee of the NIH Reproductive Scientist Development Program.