Dominique de Ziegler

Dominique de Ziegler, MD
Born in Nice France, Dom de Ziegler was raised in the USSR (Moscow), Egypt (Cairo) and New York City, where he finished the French High School curriculum (Baccalaureate).Dom went to medical school in Geneva and subsequently returned to the US to undertake a research fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York (Erlio Gurpide) followed by Residency and Clinical Fellowship at the UCLA medical center in Los Angeles, California. At UCLA, Dom trained under JG Moore, Bill Dignam, and during the Fellowship Howard L Judd, David R Meldrum and R Jeffery Chang. In Paris and New York, Dom directed Research and Fellowship for Columbia Laboratories. There, he primarily worked on the development of the vaginal progesterone gel Crinone, unveiling the existence of direct vagina to uterus transport phenomenon, or first Uterine Pass Effect (FUPE). Starting in 2000, Dom was in Geneva where he directed the division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the university hospital (HUG), later fused with the same at Lausanne (CHUV). Currently, at University Paris Descartes – Hôpital Cochin, Paris France – Dom heads the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at University Descartes – Hôpital Cochin in the dept of Obtetrics and Gynecology chaired by Charles Chapron. Together with Charles, Dom has exploited the unique model constituted by women affected by ovarian endometriosis for challenging the current views on ovarian reserve, ART outcome and the fecundity of women.