Dr. Peter Schlegel, MD

About Dr. Schlegel

Dr. Schlegel is a urologist who treats male infertility at New York Men's Health Medical in New York, New York. He earned his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1983 and completed general surgery and urology residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He then completed a fellowship at New York Hospital-Cornell and The Population Council at Rockefeller University before joining the Weill Cornell faculty.

In 2004 Weill Cornell Medical College named him chair of its urology department, and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center made him its urologist-in-chief. He has held the James J. Colt Professorship of Urology and was appointed senior associate dean for clinical affairs at Weill Cornell Medicine in July 2017. He served as President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in 2020.

He received the Barbara Eck Founder's Award from RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association in 2018 and the Established Clinician Award from the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology. He is best known for developing the microTESE surgical procedure, a sperm-retrieval treatment for men with non-obstructive azoospermia, and his research has identified nearly 25 additional genetic causes of infertility. He has co-authored at least 121 research papers indexed in PubMed.