Professor Raul Orvieto

Professor Raul Orvieto is a renowned reproductive specialist with rich clinical experience, who has performed thousands of artificial insemination procedures for women suffering from infertility. He heads an assisted reproductive technology center that includes departments of genetics and reproductive medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, urology and andrology, and in vitro fertilization. The professor and his team provide thorough diagnosis and effective treatment to couples who wish to have children.

Raul Orvieto's professional interests include karyotyping of partners, preimplantation diagnosis, superovulation stimulation, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and the microsurgical TESA and TESE procedures when the male factor is dominant. He also consults patients planning aggressive treatment (radical removal of organs, systemic anticancer therapy) and helps them keep the chance of having children in the future using germ cell cryopreservation technologies.

The professor's clinical work is complemented by intensive research. Raul Orvieto's contributions have been highly valued by international professional organizations, and he has repeatedly been the recipient of prestigious medical awards and prizes.

Raul Orvieto graduated with honors from the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He completed his internship and clinical residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Beilinson Medical Center. He received his master's degree at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and his doctorate at the Hebrew University. He was awarded the title of professor in 1998. He worked as a senior physician in the gynecology department and head of the male fertility unit at Beilinson, and headed the IVF unit at Barzilai Hospital. Today he heads the department of assisted reproductive technologies at Sheba Medical Center.

The professor is an honorary member of the following professional organizations:

• Israel Medical Association
• Israeli National Fertility Association
• Israel Society for Contraception, Family Planning and Reproductive Health
• American Society for Reproductive Medicine
• Israeli Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Raul Orvieto is the author and co-author of more than 250 papers on the treatment of infertility. The professor's papers have been peer-reviewed and published in authoritative medical journals.

Raul Orvieto is an outstanding specialist in the treatment of infertility. When conservative and surgical therapy are not appropriate, the professor skillfully applies assisted reproductive technologies.

The professor provides the following services:

• Genetic counseling when planning a pregnancy
• Conservative treatment of obstetric and gynecological pathologies
• Therapy of endocrine diseases that provoke infertility
• Treatment of female and male infertility
• Preparation for artificial insemination
• Karyotyping
• Preimplantation diagnosis
• Superovulation stimulation
• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IMSI and ICSI)
• Culture of embryos in vitro
• Cryopreservation of oocytes and sperm
• In vitro fertilization

The professor's efforts are focused on restoring fertility in reversible infertility and on giving the joy of motherhood to those whose natural reproductive function has been irreversibly lost.